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New Study Finds the Average American Woman Is Now Plus-Size

New Study Finds the Average American Woman Is Now Plus-Size

January 12, 2018

Until recently, it had long been estimated that the average American woman wore a US size 14, or just at the threshold between standard and plus-sizes. However, a new study by Deborah A. Christel and Susan C. Dunn of Washington State University, which was published in the International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, suggests that the average woman now wears between a size 16 and 18. Said differently, the average American woman is now, incongruously, considered "plus-size...

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Clothing designer Mallorie Dunn on the rise of body-positive fashion

Clothing designer Mallorie Dunn on the rise of body-positive fashion

January 12, 2018

According to research from Washington State University assistant professor Deborah Christel, the average U.S. woman wears between a size 16 to 18, Bloomberg reported. And as New York Fashion Week began on Sept. 8, Project Runway co-host Tim Gunn wrote in the Washington Post that designers have failed to make clothes that fit the bodies of many U.S. women.

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Prof Makes Students Design Plus-Sized Swimsuits

Prof Makes Students Design Plus-Sized Swimsuits

January 10, 2018

A professor conducted a “fat fashion” project in her classes by making her students design plus-sized swimsuits, according to a Monday report. Debbie Christel administered the assignment at Washington State University, where she uses hundreds of customized light points and a 3D body scanner for her research. She discussed her research and teaching in “Fat fashion: Fattening pedagogy in apparel design,” an article she authored in the Fat Studies Journal, reported Campus Reform. Christel uses ...

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Prof fights swimsuit inequality with 'fat fashion pedagogy'

Prof fights swimsuit inequality with 'fat fashion pedagogy'

January 07, 2018

  Prof. Debbie Christel developed fat fashion pedagogy upon "critical feminist and narrative pedagogies," and seeks to fight fat stigma by “promoting activism to erode the thin-centric orientation” among students.   After conducting market research and reading articles about issues like “weight bias, thin privilege, and fat studies,” students researched and designed a series of "plus-size swimsuits for active swimmers."

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K&V US US PANT BUST WAIST HIP
S S 4/6 30"-34" 26"-29" 26"-49"
M M 8/10 32"-38" 30"-33" 29"-52"
L L 12/14 36"-40" 34"-37" 32"-55"
1L XL/1X 16/18 38"-44" 38"-41" 35"-58"
2L 2X/3X 20/22 42"-50" 42"-45" 38"-61"
3L 3X/4X 24/26 48"-54" 46"-49" 41"-64"
4L 4X-5X 28/30 52"-58" 50"-53" 44"-67"
5L 5X-6X 32/34 56"-62" 54"-57" 47"-70"
6L 6X-7X 36/38 60"-64" 58"-61" 50"-75"
7L 7X-8X 40/42 65"-69" 62"-65" 53"-80"
8L 8X-9X 44/46 70"-74" 66"-70" 56"-85"

At Kade & Vos, we do not use the term "Plus Size". We feel that calling some sizes "Plus Size" means that these sizes and shapes are somehow different from other sizes. 

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