Dear Caryn I hope you can help me. I am going to Christening in a few weeks time and need to find an outfit to wear and am really stuck! I am a curvy girl – size 18 UK and I am 5”4. I think I am slight apple shape in that my tummy is [...]

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Hi Caryn, I am going to be a bridesmaid at my sister’s wedding in the US in August and need help picking a bridesmaid dress. She has picked the colours, but I need to know what sort of style will suit my body. I am about a size 14, pretty standard body shape, but I [...]

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I happen to think Leona Lewis looks spectacular and so do many other women on Twitter as I write. Yet, the Daily Mail has allowed itself the usual commentary about her body which you can read in this link but I’m not dignifying it here. It’s bullying behavior that undermines women not just the ones [...]

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So it seems, rather marvelously that M&S who were the first sponsor of my All Walks Beyond the Catwalk Campaign have taken note of all our encouragement to retailers to design and MARKET clothes in a more inclusive way. The latest campaign features a broader range of women including the delicious Yasmina Rossi who swells [...]

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I know you were all rather excited… When I wrote about those magic 3M drops from Philip Kinglsey. But it’s not an off-the-peg product as some of you seemed to think from my lackluster approach. So let’s be clear,  you need to be prescribed this marvelous concoction by Philip’s right hand man Glen Lyons. Philip [...]

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