Creating a timeless wardrobe means skipping the fads

Creating a timeless wardrobe means skipping the fads

Finding genuinely size inclusive sustainable brands can be tricky. Catherine Bouris put in the hard yards and crafted the ultimate capsule wardrobe.

  • byCatherine Bouris

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Making room for every shape,size and ability on the runway

Making room for every shape,size and ability on the runway

Issues of inclusion for size and race are trying to change Australia’s fashion industry one model at a time.

  • byDamien Woolnough
The words that finally helped me accept my body

The words that finally helped me accept my body

I was standing in my hospital gown,waiting in a cold corridor to be weighed for the third time that week. I was doing everything right. So why didn’t I love myself?

  • byAmy Woods
Hail the Short Kings:plenty of my favourite men aren’t tall
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Hail the Short Kings:plenty of my favourite men aren’t tall

There’s no reason not to have high expectations of a short man.

  • byKerri Sackville
Skin out of the game:the inmates erasing their gang tattoos to create their better selves

Skin out of the game:the inmates erasing their gang tattoos to create their better selves

“This life is all I’ve ever known,” Eck said about agonising over his decision to deface the tattoos that have been central to his identity for 20 years.

  • byMichael Tarm
Are natural deodorants better?
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Are natural deodorants better?

Many people are turning to natural deodorants,but do they work? Why do we sweat? And is there anything wrong with traditional antiperspirants?

  • bySophie Aubrey
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Forget body positivity,I’m aiming for body neutrality this summer
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Forget body positivity,I’m aiming for body neutrality this summer

I find the idea that you don’t have to love or hate your body utterly revolutionary because sometimes just existing and getting from Point A to Point B is enough.

  • byAlice Clarke
Paris thin to the Kardashian butt,it’s boom time for cosmetic ‘cowboys’

Paris thin to the Kardashian butt,it’s boom time for cosmetic ‘cowboys’

The advent of “Instagram face”,and the normalisation of “mummy makeovers”,boob jobs,and now Brazilian butt lifts and “designer vaginas”,has cosmetic surgery being promoted as proudly aspirational - despite the “lack of transparency”.

  • byWendy Tuohy
As lockdown ended,Nik’s anxiety about his body returned

As lockdown ended,Nik’s anxiety about his body returned

Social media posts about shedding COVID kilos may appear harmless but experts are issuing firm warnings,with even subtle posts about fitness posing a problem.

  • bySophie Aubrey
Why Kate Winslet lobbying for ‘a bulgy bit of belly’ matters
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Why Kate Winslet lobbying for ‘a bulgy bit of belly’ matters

The star of Mare of Easttown wanted to play a middle-aged woman in a way that honoured “real levels of truth”.

  • byGarry Maddox
Period embarrassment sees WA students skip school more than any other state

Period embarrassment sees WA students skip school more than any other state

West Australian students are more likely to miss school when they have their period because they’re too embarrassed or afraid they’ll get teased.

  • byLauren Pilat