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by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
The fashion industry and advertisers have been using thin models as the norm to sell us products; basically anything from cards, to cars to condos. The explanation offered is that these are the ideals of beauty; that it is these seeming clothes hangers that men desire that women aspire to be. It has always been the case of the fashion industry that people respond better to ‘thin’, that thin sells more products.
Now a study undertaken in Australia has exploded that myth, that thin models sell more products. Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
I scan for Plus Size news on the internet regularly and there seem to be parallel events taking place in different parts of the world, which are wholly unconnected, but remarkably similar in nature! Does that mean you can be sexy at any size in any part of the world? Perhaps.
One event was organized in Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
I got a mail from Nancy early this morning telling me of the sad demise of her grandfather who had long been struggling with cancer of the colon. It was obvious from her words that he was a person who had had a very strong influence in her life as a spiritual mentor and as a well beloved family patriarch. In her mail Nancy quoted one of her grandfather’s favorite quotes. “they’re ALL crazy out there, be careful of the BULLSHIT!” … which I thought indicated what a feisty and interesting character he must have been.
What Nancy’s mail did was Continue Reading…