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Finding Your Engagement Party Outfit as a Bride to Be

Engagement parties have become more festive and fun. As you share this event with your friends and family, you want to look your best.  An engagement outfit can be anything you’d like from casual to upscale chic. Here are our tips for finding your perfect engagement outfit. Consider the Venue and Time of Year When thinking about what to wear …

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Wedding Day Make-Up Tips For Brides

Your wedding day make-up is unique for you on your wedding day. But even with your own unique make-up style, each bride can use tips and techniques that will highlight them on that special day. Here are five wedding day make-up tips for brides. Make Sure You Stay Hydrated While this tip is appropriate year-round, it’s particularly important for your …

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Plus Size Fashion & Fashion Obstacles

Fashion is slowly but surely catching up and dealing with the obstacles that women who wear plus sizes face. There are still many challenges we face when we look for fashionable clothes. From lingerie to wedding gowns, it still sometimes feels like we can’t get the fit, or the styles that are available for sizes below size 12. Finding stylish …

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Flats vs. Heels: Which Make the Best Wedding Shoes?

When considering what shoes to wear on your wedding day the dilemma of choosing between heels and flats is one that many brides face. Each style of shoe has its own advantages that make them appropriate for your wedding day. The following discussion may aid you in selecting your wedding-day shoes.  Heels If you’re a bride who already wears heels, …

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Plus Size Fashion Trends of 2021

Fan C Designs isn’t your average wedding dress designer. We aim to provide curvy, plus size brides with the wedding dress of their dreams — a dress that truly fits and shows off everything they love about their body. It’s for that reason that we keep our finger on the pulse of plus size fashion and the way that it’s …

Finding the Perfect Lingerie For Curvy Bodies

Lingerie isn’t only for smaller women – it’s for all women. Sure, it may be more difficult for curvy women to find lingerie that feels good and looks sexy, but not impossible. Companies are beginning to feature  fuller-figured women in undergarments. Advertising may have suggested in the past that lingerie is just for women with slim figures, but this is …

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Representation In the Fashion Industry

Societal standards have placed unreal expectations for what bodies “should” look like. The truth is, we aren’t all thin with hourglass figures. Many of us have curves, cellulite, thick thighs, rolls. Plus-size women with these “imperfections” make up more than half of shoppers yet we’re only a small percentage of those who actually work in the fashion industry.  There is …

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5 Favorite Wedding Dress Styles for Apple-Shaped Brides

Finding a wedding dress that suits your body type can be challenging, especially with all the different dress styles and tailoring that can be done to make your dress unique. With these differing styles, how do you select a style that is best for your body type? Here are five wedding dress styles for brides with an apple shape (shoulders …

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Famous Wedding Style: Princess Diana and Prince Charles

The wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana was one for the books, and we still look back on the wedding today. One of the biggest things talked about is the fashion: everything from Princess Diana’s dress to her veil, which is still used as inspiration for brides today. While Charles was in his military uniform, many active military men …

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How to Feel Great as a Plus Size Bridesmaid

Your bestie has just called you, excitedly telling you that she and her sweetheart just got engaged! Once the two of you finish gushing over the proposal, she mentions that she wouldn’t dream of getting married without you standing beside her and hopes that you’ll be one of her bridesmaids.  A few weeks later, she officially asks you, and you …