Thursday, January 29, 2009

Plus sized jewellery commitment


It is often bemoaned the lack of cool funky wear for the plus sized. I know, not being a slim slyph meself! But what often amuses me is weird stuff, like jewellery and shoes. Okay, fash designers need to keep fatties away from cool clothes so as to not diminsh the oddly rabid consumer fetishistic relationship we have with fashion, trends and clothing. Don't want people seeing their own fab item of satorial superiority on the rounder form of some size 26-er, it just ruins that whole secret fashion Nazi club
But shoes? Jewellery? Okay diamond gold solitaire boringness can be left for slimmer ladies, it's so yawn worthy I don't want it! And Manolo Blahnik's or whatever passes for a leather formed faux vagina shoe these days can be restricted only to sive six and below. But are we so freaked as a culture by the rotund (which I think I am part of the majority, not the minority now) that we must run around barefeet and bling-less?


Here at the House of Kuhl (yeah, I'm working on it. Paris, Milan, London, Darwin????) there is a commitment to the creaton of bigger bling. I have a size 10 ring finger, so from sheer selfishness, i want to wear my creations. There are plenty of smaller sizes in my pieces as well, but if you're like me and have drag queens standing next to you because you make their hands look smaller, I'm your girl.


All the big bathplug/UFO rings are size 10. I recently got some cabochon ring blanks that are size 8-10.5 adjustable and have some pretty glass cabs glued on them already. There will be 3.5 and 4 inch bangles aplenty as soon as the silicone comes in and a bigger than Ben Hur sea urchin bangle as well. The sea urchin I bought is 13cm across, so that's a whole lotta room to make bangles.


So, plus sized resin craziness something your hankering for? Check out my Etsy or contact me directly in the comments. I can hook you up!

2 comments:

Emerald Arts said...

My sister has always been able to wear big statement jewelry, but I've got little bird wrists even though I'm tall and curvy.

Makes me cranky cos she gets to wear the most amazing stuff, which on me looks silly, like I'm playing dressups.

Serena Kuhl said...

That's weird. If you ever see this show on Austar, Project Runway, the editor or something of Elle Magazine is this tiny little social x-ray type and she wears huge rings and bangles. And we're all playin dressups! Otherwise where's the fun?

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