A business with subway acess

I appreciate the guest post, Jewel Rodgers

I have always love, love, loved New York. Even when I was a kid and had never been there it held some sort of magical spell over my soul that drew me in like a Siren. I told my parents that when I got out of high school I was headed straight to New York City to live there forever. I would go to college of course but only if it was in or around NYC. After I graduated I started working for a fashion designer and learned a whole lot about the business. I decided to open my own boutique in the meat packing district which was a hot up and coming area at the time. One thing I knew that I needed was to be close to a subway stop. I remember when I was in school before I had money for cabs I would only shop at the stores that were a quick jaunt from a subway stop. I didn’t know that I would need awesome internet access like new york T1. I quickly found that this is maybe even more important than subway access.

Enjoying the 'class' and 'style' of school SPIRIT!

One way to bring out the appreciation and value of being in a school that has brought out the person you were meant to be; is to create your own unique style for it!  Having all of the attractive shirts, buttons, hats, scarves and other things can be a way to envelope hundreds of different looks from day to day.  University of Alabama shirts are so easy to acquire from their shopping website and fun to wear, just in case you attend your favorite teams' game or go out on the town with the party crowds!  It's nice to own a piece of school "luxury" that is thought of academically; and gives reference to the efforts it took to make the grade. 
To "pump-up" the volume (or spirit of enthusiasm) on why being in college is one of the single-most valuable tools to achieve the maximum amount of greatness, can be represented in a fabulous style arrangement.  Alabama apparel has it going-on when it comes to finding and grabbing up all of the major gear that accompanies being in a school of that type of magnitude!  One thought about  getting your college look is finding the right t-shirt, hat or halter-top to go with your favorite jeans.  This is all possible, because making shopping for books, returned books or clothing gear is all over the websites of this scholastic university.  Make your life easier by looking great and sharing your ambition by showing it! 

A modeling agency for "normal sized" women. Will it work? (a re-blog)

I’m 5’5” and a size 6, with a not-insignificant ass. I don’t see many models out there who look like me. In fact, very few women–no matter what their sizes–probably see themselves reflected in the ads we’re bombarded with every single day. There seem to be two distinct types of models–the traditional beanpole “straight size” fashion model, and the zaftig hourglass on the plus-size end of the spectrum.
When these two worlds collide, as they did recently in a controversial editorial that appeared in the online publication, PLUS Model Magazine (wherein a plus-size and straight size model were shown naked and embracing), one gets a sense of how emotionally charged this issue can be. Women on both sides of the scale’s needle feel attacked for being too big or too small. But what about those who fall somewhere in between?

Katie Halchishick, 26, has been working as a plus-size model since she was discovered at 17, being repped along the way by agencies like Wilhelmina and Ford. We caught up with Halchishick, who was recently featured on ABC News for her campaign “Healthy is the New Skinny,” to hear her story.
After being signed as a plus-size model as a teenager, Halchishick’s agency told her she could work more if she gained weight–and she obliged (unwittingly) by gaining the freshman 15–or 20 in her case–after starting at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She hit a max of 200 pounds (size 14), and worked the most she ever would as a model, often banking six figures in a year. Then she met her boyfriend, who’s a physical trainer.
Halchishick ended up losing 50 pounds–and subsequently all her modeling clients–when she got down to 145 and a size 8. She was left with a few lingerie clients and doing commercials for diet pills. “As I got smaller I had to wear fat suits and padding, and that worked [keeping clients] for a while,” she told me. At this point her agency told her if she got down to a size 4, they could probably find her some commercial modeling work. Halchishick hated how she looked and felt, and is now holding steady somewhere in between her highest and lowest weight. And she’s now on a mission.
Read more: http://fashionista.com/2012/01/will-an-agency-for-normal-sized-models-actually-work/