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Fashion Revolution: Plus Size Clothing and Changing Attitudes

By: Joana Kusak

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Fashion can be fabulous. It can inspire us to reinvent our style. It can be artistic. It can be fun. It can unleash new sides of our personalities. Fashion can make us feel fantastic, when we get it right.

However, fashion can also be elitist and discriminatory. Designer fashion is clearly only really accessible to those with large amounts of cash to burn or those for whom labelled fashion is a top priority. Catwalk shows are notoriously hard to get into unless you can boast some impressive contacts within the fashion world. And the kind of people associated with fashion, whom we are led to believe are appropriate to model high end fashion, are all tall and frequently shockingly thin. The ideals of beauty on the catwalk seem to be highly prescriptive.

Thank fully, this issue is starting to be addressed. Plus size models now feature in many of the most important and influential catwalk shows. Clothes are no longer created solely for those with ''clothes hanger'' frames, they are also made for real women with real, feminine curves.

Miles ahead of the high fashion world are some of our favourite high street stores, who have already embraced plus size collections as being every bit as important as everything else they sell. The catwalk has long been catering for the plus size woman where the catwalks have previously failed to represent them at all.

Brands such as New Look pride themselves on translating catwalk trends into wearable and affordable everyday items for the modern consumer and plus size consumers are certainly no exception. Larger sizes, clothes made specifically for those with a generous bust and clothes in longer lengths for tall women are now all readily available.

New Look and other similar high street brands are also working on catering for tall women, petite figures and those expecting a child. Fashion should be accessible to all, no matter what you look like, how old you are or what you are doing with your life. Finally it seems that the high street is starting to accept this and hopefully the world of high end designer fashion will not be far behind.

Great fashion makes women feel great - an experience that ought to be available to everyone regardless of age, race, creed, size or income.

Now the plus size category is finally getting coverage on the catwalk, there is one category yet to be represented in this sphere: the average size woman. Most women in Britain are between a size 10 and 14 - too small to be a plus size model and too big to be a normal one. We can only live in hope that one day the industry will acknowledge the average woman and design clothes for her too. In the meantime, we''ll have to make do with the high street.

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Joana Kusak is a fashion writer specialising in the larger woman. They recommend New Look for plus size clothes.

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