'Ever since I can remember making my own clothing choices, I dressed to hide my body'
There was just one pair left, on a much-too-high rack in a corner of a Forever21 plus-size section in Miami. The perfect pair of bell bottoms, cropped and with a slit up the side. They were my size, hanging there just for me.
It’s a sentiment I’m all too familiar with. Ever since I can remember making my own clothing choices, I dressed to hide my body. The rules were as follows: Only wear dark or neutral colours—they’re “slimming.” Don’t even *think* about a bikini—in fact, probably just avoid bathing suits altogether. And if you’re going to wear jeans, definitely pair them with a loose-fitting top to hide your love handles.
For a long time it was the only style I could even find in the fast-fashion stores where I would shop for trendy plus-size clothing. But even when extended sizing in an array of styles started to become more widely available over the past couple years, I was still reluctant to stray from the skinny. I openly condemned the reemerging ’70s and ’90s bell bottoms and baggy jeans while, in truth, I wanted so badly to be a part of the trend.
Though RiRi is still a conventionally beautiful woman with the means to dress herself in any designer she wants, she faces much more body criticism—as a curvaceous woman of colour who is unapologetic about her “fluctuating” weight—than thin, white celebs. Back in 2017, Barstool Sports writer Chris Spags shared a disgusting post about Rihanna “making fat fashionable.
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