Lockdown Lounge
To be perfectly honest I had another blog planned for this week but a very good friend of mine sent over an interesting article on loungewear (yes an article on loungewear), and I felt compelled to share. To chat about it. To delve into it, shall we say. Okay, I’ll stop . . . I will link the article at the bottom of this post, please feel free to read prior to continuing here if you so choose . . . but the general synopsis is this . . .
The past year of loungewear trending has brought unwanted attention to the shame that is cast upon plus size women choosing to participate in this trend. What it goes on to say is this trend is largely represented by oversized pieces (sweaters, pants, shorts etc), on thin, small frames. IE. it is more about the way the clothes look on a person, not about the clothes themselves. This trend is more about selling the concept of being slim as a style, rather than the actual style of loungewear itself. The article highlights that “the need for fashion to make us look our skinniest - either by drowning our bodies in fabric or by being ultra form-fitting -fuels fatphobic rhetoric on a larger scale, too. When thinness becomes desirable, comparative fatness becomes undesirable.” What this goes to show us is that the trend we have all come to love has also negatively amplified the way we are sold clothes based on the way they look on specific body types. The implications of this have resulted in curvier figures feeling that the trend is personifying the notion that heavy people wearing loungewear are themselves lazy. WHICH I HATE SO MUCH, but I digress. The article concludes with the fact that it does seem humorous to give so much heed to a tracksuit but it has caused a disruption to the fashion industry and the connotations when we look closely can certainly be seen in a less than positive light. The article, however, does not offer any real solutions as to how this could be reversed. So let me offer you this . . .
How ridiculous is it that we let society place these absurd notions of attractiveness based on our thin (or thickness). Shaming someone for wearing loungewear because their body looks different than that of the general representative of that style is absolutely disgraceful. Dress however you freaking want. And just an FYI, you look lazy (chic) in loungewear at any size, I can attest to this personally. I am here for the lounge look forever and ever, amen.
I feel incredibly grateful to partner with loungewear companies at my own shop that do in fact show women of all shapes, sizes, ethnicities, etc. in their advertising. They demonstrate what these tracksuits, rompers, sweats, look like on everyone, not just “skinny” bodies. Smash & Tess and Brunette the Label, are who I am referring to, aka my entire current wardrobe.
I think it is time that we start to call out this blatant shaming of women’s bodies and realize that being thin does not make you fashionable while on the same token being curvy does not make you look like a slob. I’m not sure if I am the only one, but I do see, thankfully, a trend in the right direction within small hubs of the fashion industry. Although it may not be enough, it is a start.
The bottom line is we are all worthy. We are all worthy of feeling good. We are all worthy of looking good in whatever form our bodies are currently in. Loungewear has blown up our fashion lives over the past year, probably the only good thing to come out of the lockdown lifestyle. We all deserve to embrace this and to feel that we look lockdown lovely (ya I’m reaching for some alliterations and it is not working, it’s late, anyways . . . ) There is not a right or a wrong body type for loungewear. Consciously making an effort to be inclusive matters. It matters to me. I know I can do better, and I plan to.
Now on a lighter note please enjoy me romping around in some of my favourite rompers. Someone recently asked me how many rompers I own, I think I will let you guess as a contest one day so I won’t share just yet, but it is a lot. ROMPERS + LOCKDOWN = STYLE ESSENTIALS (duh), and please, babe, for the love of god, enjoy the lounge life and embrace your body the way it is. YOU ARE WORTHY, PERIOD. Lounge on girlfriend. Let me know what you think, see ya on the gram.
xo
Link below for anyone curious to read the article I referenced - - - >