Big Girl Togs » Lifestyle http://biggirltogs.com Clothing, Fashion, and Fun for Plus Sized Women Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Harrods Plus-Size Department Update http://biggirltogs.com/Harrods-Plus-Size-Department-Update http://biggirltogs.com/Harrods-Plus-Size-Department-Update#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:05:07 +0000 The Big Girl http://biggirltogs.com/wordpress?p=2357 Travelers and U.K. residents alike will be thrilled to find out that Harrods has simply relocated their plus-size department, not removed it altogether. We can breathe a sigh of relief, thanks to a reader named “H” who has a visit planned to London. She quotes from the email she received from Harrods:

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City Chic is one of the largest plus-size companies in Australia, and I will be posting a full review of their items next week. Until then, I’d like to give you a mini intro to some of my favorite pieces on their site, their sizing, and their price points.

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City Chic is one of the largest plus-size companies in Australia, and I will be posting a full review of their items next week. Until then, I’d like to give you a mini intro to some of my favorite pieces on their site, their sizing, and their price points.

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“But I got so fat that even fashion wouldn’t pretend it could fix me. You can get so fat they don’t actually want you in their clothes. It is bad marketing; if very fat people wear their clothes, thinner

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See, the basic employee discount at Whole Foods is 20%. So far, so good. The problem is that there are variations. They aren’t based on [...]

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