Author Carmen Maria Machado 'When you are a fat person trying to dress yourself, there are a lot of hacks'
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The writer of Her Body and Other Parties says it took years to find her personal style. Now she enjoys flouting the rules around size in fashion
• Read more from the spring/summer 2020 edition of The Fashion, our biannual style supplement
Style wasn’t always important to me. When I was young I didn’t know how to dress myself. That was partially because I was fat and there were not a lot of choices; partially because I didn’t think I deserved to wear nice things.
It wasn’t until I was in my early 20s that I began to explore the wonderful world of fat fashion blogs and swap websites where you could buy used plus-size clothes. I started posting pictures of myself in different outfits and got to think about how I was dressing my body. Continue reading...
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