Style Icons and Style Stories
Plus too tired to cook, summer camp mental load, and a pretty post-divorce house.
Who Are Your Style Icons?
Corinne and I answered this great listener question a few weeks ago in our March Mailbag episode and I’ve been thinking ever since that it would be such a good Friday Thread! And since we’re already in closet mode this week, let’s do it. I’m also curious to hear any bits and pieces of your Style Stories — this is a term that weight-inclusive stylist Dacy Gillespie uses in her work with clients, and she explained it on the BT pod this way:
The whole first session when I work with someone is called “Style Stories.” It’s about asking, “What has your relationship with clothes been over the course of your life? Who dressed you? Who took you to buy clothes? Who influenced what you thought you should be wearing? Who gave you messages?” It can be anyone, from our mothers to fashion magazines and of course, social media. It’s so important to acknowledge those messages and decide whether you want to accept them or let them go.
I wrote some of my own style story back here, and I’d love to hear yours. So icons, stories, let’s go! Feel free to drop links if your icons aren’t famous or you want to show us an image to explain why you love them.
As always, be cool and follow our Thread Ground Rules.
Fat Talk Book Tour, Stop One!
We are still finalizing the full tour and I’m hoping to have more dates for you soon (plus info on virtual events!). But for now, very excited to share that the official launch for Fat Talk will be Saturday April 22 at 3pm!
This event is hosted by Split Rock Books (where, as you may have heard me mention, you can preorder your signed copies) and will be held at the Desmond-Fish Public Library in Garrison, New York. And the very best part is that my beloved is joining as my conversation partner! Julia is one of my very favorite people to talk to about all of these issues, and was also an early/critical reader of the book, so you know it's going to be a GOOD CHAT.
Register here if you’d like to join us! (Yes, you can come even if you forget to sign up but it helps them know how many chairs to put out.)
Friday Links and Recs
My good friend and neighbor
and I started off this week panic texting about summer camp registration, because this country remains built on the premise that every household with children contains a stay-at-home parent who can both drop everything on a Monday morning at 8:30am to spend 30 minutes sorting out camp registration and then totally roll with it when the slots fill up in 20 seconds and their 5-year-old is waitlisted. Anyway, it’s fine, one of my kids has summer childcare sorted and I guess the rising first grader can, idk, get a part-time job? Here’s Melinda’s excellent (and as always, research-based) rant on the whole situation: