Nothing like some stellar tuneage to get your long weekend going, and our photo editor Nicole Stafford has put together this week’s selection. Whether you’re feeling Motown or mid-70s rock, this mixtape’s got something for everyone who appreciates a good summer jam.
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They said/We said: The weight debate continues with the debut of TLC’s new series
Big Sexy, a new three-part reality series based around the burgeoning careers of five plus-size models in New York City, premieres tonight on TLC. With the tagline “Once you go big, you don’t go twig,” the show is getting all kinds of positive attention as well as negative vibes. While supporters hail it as the perfect vehicle to give big women their due, others have accused the show of encouraging obesity. Either way, the plus-size topic is again making waves. To boot, American Apparel just launched a plus-size model search, The Next Big Thing, to find models for their newly expanded size range (the brand is only now offering its clothes in XL). Ironically, as most would attest, the brand’s notoriously teeny sizes favour a slender figure so therefore a XL hardly qualify as plus-size.
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