Most women in New Zealand do not realise that heart disease is the leading single cause of death in women. To help raise this awareness, a group of fashion designers like Annah Stretton, in association with Go Red For Women have put some original designer red dresses up for auction on Trade Me. If you are a size 10/small, you could purchase and buy one of these pretty dresses, and help raise money for the cause. If you’re not a size small, well really, what relevancy could heart disease possibly have to you anyway?
Archive for the ‘curvy-girl’ category
Seeing red
May 6th, 2009Enough about us, let’s talk about you
February 25th, 2009Hi! We are still alive, and we are still using many lovely products. We’ve just both been insanely busy though. Updates as normal will follow shortly, but until then, two things:
- We’re going to be having a BIG one year anniversary party in March or April (date to be confirmed) and as part of that there’ll be another clothing swap, so please start saving clothes to trade.
- I love the cover for the new LOVE magazine so much:
- What’s a new product or regime you’ve tried lately? Details please!
Poll Dancing
December 15th, 2008I’ve added a polls plugin to the site so that we can ask you all the vitally important questions that we’d like answers to.
First up, I’m having many many dilemmas about what I should wear to the most important night of the year, the TAWA Ceremony. You can see pictured what I wore last year, so obviously I need to top that.
Do I go with my old standby, the green dress and belt, ala Tom’s Mad Men Party? My black and purple dress ala Amy’s 30th? Or do I wear this blue dress that I haven’t worn very often, which Karen is currently making me an extra petticoat for so that it’s a decent length? The first two offer up a lot more cleavage which I think would help console those who don’t win, but they’ve made big public outings before. Should I go for something different? Or if I’m going to be running around like crazy freaking out about organisation stuff, should I just make sure that I’m comfortable?
What should Joanna wear to the TAWAS?
- The blue dress (50%, 13 Votes)
- The purple & black dress (27%, 7 Votes)
- The green dress (23%, 6 Votes)
Total Voters: 26
Loading ...Winners and boobies courtesy of Torrid
November 7th, 2008
Oh yeah, and clearence is currently 50% at Torrid, but with the NZ$ at .59 of the US$, I’d be very very careful if I were you.
Oh and also, if you’re a New Zealander, please vote tomorrow. And please vote for a party that you think will do good things for women. The Hand Mirror has done an excellent job of asking candidates questions about issues that concern women, and they make for some important reading before you make your decision.
Pretty things on Trademe
September 4th, 2008Seeing as how blogs are all about the self-promotion, I feel obligated to tell you that I am selling off a whole bunch of misordered Torrid clothes on Trademe – there’s togs, a hoodie, a singlet and a dress, all of which have never been worn. There’s also a pair of doc boots. AND I’m looking for a flatmate. $160pw in Newtown AND you’d have access to my massive amount of makeup and beauty products. Tell your friends.
Torrid Sale – wanna split postage?
July 24th, 2008
Short bits and wordy considerations
July 8th, 20081. Zebrano, home to designer clothes for the curvy lady is having a sale. Pretty much every garment in-store (well, at least in their Johnson Street branch anyway) is reduced, often up to 50%, and arranged in size order for easy shopping. While I’m at it, how do you feel about the term “curvy lady”? I personally don’t like the word ‘lady’ very much so I’m not entirely sure why I’m using it. I ask partially because when Martha wrote about us, she said she doesn’t like the word ‘girly’. How about ‘girlie’ with an ie? But yes, I favour ‘curvy’ over ‘plus-size’, because it celebrates my lovely lovely breasts while we’re at it.
2. If you’re still not reading Jezebel yet, maybe you could start with this post on Badvertising, which demonstrates all the reasons that I pretty much hate magazine advertising (and most magazine copy, for that reason). As a sample, in response to a
Dove campaign for “It’s time we girls cooled off more and freaked out less”, Jezebel writes:
“You know what else makes me freak out? When someone suggests that “we girls” should freak out less. We make less money than men, are expected to be thin and hairless and we have the crampy bleeds every 26 days. A body wash solves nothing. Fuck off.”
And to continue my wordy-thoughts, I pretty much HATE advertising that pretends that the product is “one of us”. I don’t think that the Dove ad was written by someone who has anything in common with me, so they can take their over-familiarisation and shove it.
3. I know we’ve mentioned it before, but Amy and I worked on the giftboxes for our party (which starts at 4pm this Saturday in Newtown, tell your friends!) last night, and man, they are pretty damn awesome if I do say so myself. We’ve also got some foot spas for soaking your tootsies in, the signature cocktail has been designed, and there are piles and piles of clothes for the swap, and all kinds of tasty goodness and decorations have been purchased. We think that you will enjoy yourselves. For those of you who can’t make it because you’re not in Wellington, there will be some giftboxes to be won at a later date. We have many many cunning plans taking shape.
Torrid picking the winner for the win!
July 1st, 2008
As a fat chick who likes to wear nice clothes suitable for her age that make her feel sexy instead of dressing like a frumpy grandma, I am all about ordering from Torrid, especially when they’re having a 50% off clearance sale as they are right now (I got a pair of velour track pants (I know, I am so OC housewife, but they look coooomfy), a smocked pink hoodie, a pair of flats with dangling skulls, a short-sleeved jacket, a pair of awesome lime green panties and the cutest denim halterneck dress ever for just $80 US + $43 for shipping), but another reason why I’m giving them mad love today is because I saw that they’re selling Team Barack and Team McCain necklaces. Why do I like it so much? Because anti-women’s-rights old McCain comes in second-place silver, while Barack gets the gold. Huzzah!
