Fuller Woman Expo

The Fuller Woman Expo is happening in Detroit September 10th. Though it is not centered around fashion, it empowers the plus-size women to accept themselves for who they are. Please visit their site and see what it's all about.

"The mission of the Fuller Woman Expo is to empower the plus-size woman to recognize her internal and external beauty; to educate and motivate through workshops and seminars, while providing information on the products and/or services available to them through various companies across the world."

We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

Thoughts on Big Sexy

Can I just say, WOW! Those girls are great. Their laughter is contagious and their confidence is refreshing and their curves are kicking!. We love them all.

Tiffany Bank, Leslie Medlik, Audrey Curry, Heather Roach and Nikki Gomez are absolutely wonderful. Each has their own sense of style and distinct personality.

In this first episode, of a three part series, we have gotten to meet each of them. I'm sure we will get to know all of them more as the series goes on but the girls that shown brightly for us in this episode are Tiffany, Leslie and Audrey.

Tiffany's laugh is bubbly and contagious, Audrey's sweetness and unique sense of style made us fall in love with her right away, and Leslie's self confidence and charisma is a breath of fresh air.

We look forward to seeing more from all of them even after the mini series is over.

The television industry is so over crowed with reality shows that they are nothing more than a buzzing in my ears. I truly dislike almost all of it but being a plus size woman in the city, this show speaks to me.

I see in these ladies, many of the same problems that I and other curvaliceous women have. I thank them for having the courage to share their lives with us.

Tonight!

TLC's Big Sexy Premiers tonight at 10/9c. Women living big in the Big City! We are so very excited! Please check it out with us. Read this article to wet your whistle! TLC's New Show.

Big Sexy on TLC

TLC's Big Sexy is Premiering tomorrow 10/9c. We are excited and hope the rest of you will join us as we watch them take over the Big Apple! Here is a sneak peak at what you can expect!

Are we hiding the obvious?

I had a conversation with someone today that got me thinking. While he is not our target market at Curvaceous K™, he was kind enough to pass on our survey to friends of his that he thought might be.

He mentioned that one of the women he passed the survey on to made it a point to tell him that some women might find it offensive to be asked if they were a size 14 or up. And that perhaps we should consider opening the survey up to all women.

At first, I wasn't sure what he meant. My response was something to the effect that most people can tell by looking at me that I am a larger size. I don't know that it's a secret to anyone...you can't hide the obvious.

The truth is that our customer is not a size 4 or even a size 10. We want to be exclusive to the curvalicious full-figured gal. We have no issues with anyone who is smaller than a size 12... happiness comes in all sizes afterall. And there are plenty of shops that go up to a size 12.

All we want to do is to get to know the women that we want to serve so we can exceed her expectations. But are we offending her by stating that she's our customer? It put us in quite a pickle today.

How do you know what term is offensive? Is plus-size offensive? Is full-figured offensive? Is curvalicious offensive? The truth of the matter is we don't know how to make everyone happy with one label. It's probably impossible.

In the end we certainly don't want to offend anyone but no one should feel bad about admitting their a size 18 or 20 or 22 or whatever the case might be. And we certainly don't want to stir up controversy. Our goal is to simply open up a fun boutique where our customers will love coming to shop! Fashion is fun.

Our philosophy here is that we believe if a woman looks good then she feels good. That energy radiates into the world around her. And even if that size 24 may not be her ultimate goal why shouldn't she look good for the time that she is that size?

As for me, I'm not going to hide away in my apartment waiting for the day I'm an ideal size 8 or whatever the latest cover girl tells me I should be.

I want to go out. I have a life and I want to look good living it. I feel beautiful in a new dress or outfit. And sometimes that size label may say 14; other times it may say 18 but I always feel GORGEOUS!

We hope all of you ladies out there feel the same way regardless of what size department you shop in.

LOVE YOURSELF TODAY for who you are.

And if you are comfortable with admitting your a size 14 and up please take a few minutes to complete our survey. No identifying details are asked. All we do ask for is some honest input to help make us your store.


K

Fashion's Night Out

Fashion's Night Out is coming up fast. We here at Curvaceous K™ simply can not wait and we hope that you are as excited as we are!

We are truly excited to see Lee Lee's Valise and Re/Dress participating this year.

We hope to see many of you out that night.

So much to learn...

The more we learn about you the more excited we get about our plans to move forward!

As we continue to collect data from our survey we have noticed an interesting shift. When we first started the results showed the most popular answer to the question, "Please select the description that best fits your style" as:

I use style to express myself. My mood shines thru in what I wear.
Well that has changed dramatically...now it's fallen down to second place with only 25% of you saying that describes you.

It looks like now the number one response now with 45% of you describing yourself as:

My style is about functionality. I like to look good but I don't always care about what's in fashion or necessarily trending at the moment.
We've learned that most of you are:

• Curvy from top to bottom


• 57% of you have specfic parts of your figure that you like to accentuate/feature when you dress

If you haven't had a chance to complete our survey, please do so now. All data collected is confidential and no identifying questions are asked.

As we've said before, the most important factor in all of this is YOU and knowing what you are looking for is crucial to us.