Fashion -- Not Just For Skinny Bitches

Fashion -- Not Just For Skinny Bitches

“I’m tired of thin people telling me what to do,” is Janette’s new motto. Have you noticed how the thin people always have an opinion on what you should wear and whether you should feel comfortable in a locker room or at the beach? Our B-FAB (Beautiful Fat Ass Babe) friends don’t do that to us. They know that we will wear what we’re comfortable in and that it’s none of their business. Our B-FAB friends trust that we have a mirror and that we know what we look like. Dressing the B-FAB butt can be a fabulous experience if you can just stop criticizing yourself long enough to notice how good you can look.

Plus size clothing is now so much more available that it was back when we were little.

There was a time when you could maybe catalogue order from Lane Bryant or Newport News but you couldn’t walk into a nice shop and find a gorgeously styled outfit that was cut for your body type. Now you can. There are chain stores galore – Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug Plus, Catherine’s, Chico’s. It is so much more comfortable for a B-FAB (Beautiful Fat Ass Babe) to go to a store where there is an abundance of things that will fit her. It’s wonderful to go into a store filled with women who look like she does instead of being the one lone fat girl hoping to find something in the Junior department at Macy’s.

We do, however, hold many plus size fashion manufactures criminally liable for some of the fabrics they try to foist on us. We’d like to be crystal clear here. Double-knit polyester doesn’t look good on anyone not even a S-FAB (Skinny Fat Ass Babe). There are size 8’s out there whose cellulite would defy the doubleknits they try to force us B-FABs into. Is this a conspiracy? Have the hard-body young-ones decided to flush the adipose carriers out in the open with this flammable synthetic we call “double-knit turquoise pants”. Don’t do this to yourself. There is no reason to look or feel that way. In summer, for god’s sake, try linen. It’s loose, light, cool and shows it’s own wrinkles instead of your dimples. Linen wrinkles in a way that works (unless you're on Daytime TV wearing the horrifying outfit with the linen jacket that Janette chose when we taped the Tyra Banks show… sometimes we all make mistakes. There was a reason why that happened and if you come to our website and ask, we’ll tell you.)

If you happen to have a stomach that is kind of like a big jiggly bowling ball beneath your belt, it might not be the best choice to wear knit pants and a stretchy little t-shirt with a bare mid-riff. Since Janette won’t wear a bathing suit or form fitting clothes she has been questioned about whether or not she does, in truth, embrace her BFA (Big Fat Ass). If that’s what you think you may be missing the point of embracing your big fat ass. Embracing your BFA doesn’t mean that you convince yourself that you look like Jessica Simpson. It means that you recognize that there is a bias in this country that only calls thin beautiful. It means you find the beauty and the gifts in who you are as you are. Embracing your ass when it comes to fashion means that instead of wearing the fashions that look best on Paris Hilton that we choose things that are the most comfortable and flattering for us. It means choosing outfits that boost our confidence and remind us that we are actually NOT operating with a handicap. We can be as hot as anyone else. (Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, That girl America who is Ugly Betty. Lots of B-FAB are infiltrating the pop culture making more and more room for the rest of us.)

B-FAB’s look best in natural fabrics. Let’s face it – anyone looks best in natural fabrics. If you can afford to go up a notch from the chain stores to boutiques there are finally fashion lines that create gorgeous clothes with great styling and fabrics. FLAX, Cut Loose and Cynthia Ashby to name just a few. Luna Luz has a tie skirt that would make any B-FAB feel like a million bucks.

Do you know what clothing is for? It’s to make you feel good about yourself. It’s not about conforming your tastes to what the media has created.

It’s about inhabiting our bodies with pride and finding the look that makes us feel like who we want to be.

Let’s make it our mission to stand up and show that B-FABs are quite stunning just as we are. B-FAB power rules. Come join us.