So should we just start calling high heels “body modification”?
Disclaimer: I’m in heels today, as I am most workdays. They’re really cute Oxford booties, black patent with white topstitching. They’re currently sitting on the floor next to my desk. According to new research, that might not actually be helping.
Researchers at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, have been looking at the physiological impact of heel-wearing on women’s feet–not just the back pain and the foot-crunching, but changes on the muscle and tendon level. Those changes? Significant, they found, and negative and long-lasting.
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Fat acceptance, circa 1957
Hell yeah, she can look just as pretty as her less generously proportioned friends. She can also be as happy as a hit with a rollicking beat, and she can have a tummy and still look yummy. And those dresses are really cute. But, um, Chubbette? What, was “Fatshionista” already taken? And yes, they are [...]
...read moreAwesome Size 12 Model Wins Silly American Apparel Contest
Recently, Jill wrote here on Feministe about Nancy Upton, the awesome size 12 lady who entered a silly beauty contest from American Apparel by taking awesome pictures of herself in foody positions. (You can find pictures by clicking here, or pretty much anywhere all over the Internet at this point.) Here’s the awesome part: Nancy [...]
...read moreAuf’ed Is A Word In Every Gender: A Few Reality TV Notes
So here’s the thing: while waiting this past weekend in my just-across-the-block-from-the-evacuation-zone apartment for the threatened transformation of New York from this: Into this: …I did not spend my weekend writing posts for Feministe, as was my brief, but instead watching Project Runway. Project Runway Australia. I won’t qualify Project Runway as a guilty pleasure. [...]
...read moreI’m too pretty to come up with a title for this post. I wonder if my brother’s busy.
Unimportant update: Turns out my brother was actually busy recovering from back surgery, which slipped my mind only for a second, I swear. Regardless, he was game to do my homework for me, thank God. I believe the children are our future, let them blah blah whatever Screw some homework, amiright? (Actually, yeah, screw some [...]
...read moreWhat could possibly go wrong?
Well, this sounds like a well-made piece of television heading our way: MTV is debuting a new reality show in October in which a small town girl moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams in the fashion industry. The twist? She’s fat. (Note: the linked article actually lists her weight, so if that’s triggering [...]
...read moreBebe launches “workwear”, assumes “celebutante” is actual job
Bebe, the clothing store best known for selling skin-tight minidresses and shirts with word bebe (strictly in all lower case) in rhinestones across the bust has decided to branch out into something they’re calling workwear. I freely concede that since I wear one of these every day, I might be less familiar with trends in [...]
...read moreModel behavior
It’s a story I’ve recounted as a humorous anecdote, but it’s certainly got an edge to it: During my harrowing tenure at a fashion publication that shall remain nameless–realistically, some devils actually wear as much J.Crew as anything else–I had the job of asking one of our stylists to book a few older models. We’d [...]
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Welcome to the Dollhouse: Men and Beauty Products
Back when pretty much the only men wearing makeup were either rock lords or Boy George, I privately came up with the guideline that if any particular piece of grooming was something women generally performed while men generally didn’t, I could safely consider it “beauty work.” Nail polish and leg-shaving? Beauty work. Nail-trimming and hair-combing? [...]
...read moreTwirling in Neon
Violet Photons Have Low Entropy or I Used to Wear Black I wear colors now! a purple hat red top green skirt blends in with grass when I lay back to hug the sky my lips as clovers eyes brown caterpillars their fuzz itches my nose flies buzz into my hair smack them! no, that’s [...]
...read moreNYC Clothing Swap Tonight at 6:30
I haven’t yet posted about secondhand clothing and why it’s feminist (but it is and that post is coming!) but I just got an email reminder for a Five Boroughs Clothing Swap taking place tonight and wanted to plug it, even though it’s starting an hour and a half. Super short notice, but even if [...]
...read moreHey Hey
Of course it’s 2:30 in the morning and I’m just starting my guest blogging stint. I’ve been excited about this for weeks, so I hope I’m not off to a bad start! Unfortunately, I’m not really around a computer much during the day so most of my posts will be late at night – please [...]
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