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‘Curvy Divas and the Voluptuous Woman Take Atlanta by Storm

July 26th, 2006

1. Organization Name:
‘VDINX DESIGNS ATLANTA’
2. Event Name :
‘2006 DIVALICIOUS FULL FIGURED FASHION FEST’
3. Contact Name :
‘VIVIAN DINKINS STITH’
4. Contact E-mail Address :
vdinx@earthlink.net
5. Web Address:
http://www.vdinx.com
6. Press Release:
‘Curvy Divas and the Voluptuous Woman Take Atlanta by Storm

The mission of VDINX Designs Atlanta is to empower full figured women, to love themselves and to appreciate a positive self image.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 24, 2006 — Beware of a designer by the name if VDINX, short for Vivian Dinkins-Stith of Atlanta. She is a full figured diva herself who has searched the industry for creative ideas to bring the full figured woman to the forefront of the fashion world. The company was created to showcase couture pieces of clothing that were created by VDINX and her mother. Both designers have over sixty years of experience between the two of them. “I wanted make my mother’s dream come true.”

VDINX Designs Atlanta brings couture evening wear, casual and loung wear to the voluptuous woman who desires to be sexy and noticed. “It’s about atitude and self confidence”. VDINX has the ability to create a look that transforms any woman through total image consultations and make overs.

On July 16th, 2006 VDINX produced a carribean fashion fest for the woman of size at the Atrium on Memorial Drive in Stone Mountain. Over 200 people attended the event where guest designers-Jaia’s Kustom Kanvas and Diva Day showcased pieces from an urban perspective. The show ended with a standing ovation for the Diva Extraordinaire-VDINX and her couture line of full figured clothing. The show displayed class, glitz and a ton of glamour.

For more information about the show or the fashions, please contact Vivian Dinkins-Stith/Designer and Director of public relations at 678-437-8100.

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Torrid Plus Size Model Search Winners!

July 24th, 2006

Congratulations to the following Torrid Plus Size Model
Search Winners!

Mary B from Avondale, AZ
Shante G from Jersey City, NJ
Jamie M form Westville, NJ and
Jordin S. from Glendale, AZ

Torrid.com

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What in the Devil Is A Size 6?

July 23rd, 2006

What in the Devil Is A Size 6?
By GABRIELLE BIRKNER - Staff Reporter of the Sun
July 18, 2006

http://www.nysun.com/article/36225

When Michelle Garcia walked out of the summer blockbuster “The Devil Wears Prada,” one line from the movie replayed itself in her mind: Size 6 is the new size 14.
The decree, spoken by the creative director of the film’s fictional fashion magazine, sparked outrage and a modicum of self-doubt in Ms. Garcia, a trim and toned 32-year-old who works as a fashion director for Sears Holdings Corp. in Lower Manhattan. “I’m a size 8,” she said. “If 6 is the new 14, what does that make me?”
By the time the film’s young protagonist triumphantly transforms herself into a size 4 at the end of the movie, viewers like Ms. Garcia may be pondering their own waistlines. Given that size 14 is widely viewed as the gateway to the plus-size stratosphere, many “Devil” worshippers said they wondered whether size 6 really is pushing the limits of overweight.
The notion of “perfect size 6″ went out about a decade ago, a 35-year-old former model, Robin Hazelwood, said. “New York society today makes the social X-rays of the Tom Wolfe era seem positively Rubenesque,” Ms. Hazelwood, the New York-based author of the recently released novel “Model Student,” said. “Since the mid-1990s, when the waif look and heroin chic took hold, the pendulum never went back fully. The trend has dovetailed nicely with advances in cosmetic surgery.”
Especially in the fashion industry, in Hollywood, and in aspirational social circles, size — above all — matters, Ms. Hazelwood, who spent 13 years walking the runway and posing for print advertisements, said. “The upper limit is a 6, and that’s only acceptable, if you’re tall enough to stretch the weight out,” she said. “In New York boutiques, if you ask a salesperson to try on an 8, you can hear her gasping in horror.”
By contrast, outside of the New York-Los Angeles axis of emaciated, size 14 is the new size 6, according to Ms. Hazelwood, speaking by phone from Milwaukee — her hometown, and a stop on her book tour. “The average size here is probably the average size of America: 14 or 16.”
In large swaths of Middle America, women wearing smaller sizes, she said, are considered downright slender. So, for some women, insecurities arise only when they leave their non-coastal hometowns. Since moving to New York from Jackson, Miss., three years ago, a 26-year-old sales associate for fashion designer Cynthia Steffe, Caroline Scott, said she sometimes looks in the mirror and wishes she weighed less. “When I go home to Mississippi, where more people are overweight, I’m tiny and petite,” Ms. Scott, who wears a size 2, said. “When I come back here, I don’t feel as thin.”
She said the size line in “Devil” made her laugh. “It’s so true,” Ms. Scott said. “It’s so warped, and I don’t think it’s just in the fashion industry. I think every man and woman in that movie theater could understand what it meant.”
A public relations specialist, Sara Fox, said she longs for the days when society appreciated curvaceous figures à la Marilyn Monroe, instead of skinny ones à la Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan. “I’m a size 6,” she said. “If that’s considered overweight, it’s sad.”
While statistics show that more than half of Americans are heavier than is healthy, most size-6 women are not, by a long shot, overweight. And not all New York women take their cues from “Devil,” or from “Desperate Housewives,” the ABC hit in which one woman starves herself to fit into a size 00 Dolce & Gabbana dress — while she is pregnant, no less. Women’s apparel retailers like Ashley Stewart, Lane Bryant, and Avenue have built successful businesses catering to plus-size customers. And guess what? They all have multiple stores in New York City.
A founding editor of the feminist magazine Ms., Letty Cottin Pogrebin, 67, surmised that the size complex was generational. Referring to a “Devil” character, a young woman who gives up eating before she is scheduled to leave for Paris’s fashion week, Ms. Pogrebin said: “I don’t think anyone over 50 would do that, unless they were pathological, or had to walk down the aisle as the mother-of-the-bride. They’re not agonizing over whether or not they’re a size 14.”
Younger women seem to care more, according to Ms. Pogrebin. “There’s an enormous cultural force emanating from supermodels, actresses, and socialites,” she said. “These women might not have enough to compete about. They should be competing to find solutions to environmental crises, or to the conflict in the Middle East — not who can fit into a size 0.”
This preoccupation has led some retailers put smaller sizes on ever-larger garments, a trend that’s been dubbed “vanity sizing.” In recent years, without gaining or losing a significant amount of weight, Ms. Pogrebin said her dress size has gone from a size 6 to a size 4. “Maybe it’s merciful,” she said. “Maybe they’re trying to shut us up, calm us down, and say, ‘It’s only a number.’”

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2007 American Beauties Plus Pageant

July 21st, 2006

http://www.americanbeautiesplus.com/

2007 PRIZE PACKAGE

ALL DELEGATES WILL RECEIVE

State Crown
State Banner
Crown Pin
Official American Beauties Plus Pageant Tee-Shirt
Rhinestone Earrings
Most Meals at the 2007 Pageant
Certificate of Participation
Tote Bag with goodies

,,,,more to come

OVERALL AMBASSADOR
(Winner of all Divisions with High Point Score)

Official American Beauties Plus Crown
Official American Beauties Plus Banner
Official American Beauties Plus Scepter
Official American Beauties Plus Business Cards
Floral Presentation
Gift Certificate from Jewels by Jill
Promotion on Pageant Website
Promotion in American Beauties Plus Pageant Literature & Advertisements
Promotion through individual webpage
*Expenses Paid at the 2008 American Beauties Plus Pageant
(including accommodations, travel and meals)
Rhinestone Jewelry
Engraved Trophy
Bath & Body Products
Official Portrait by Studio Prime Time
(Official Photographer for American Beauties Plus Pageant)
*Large Gift Basket (to be given at the 2008 Pageant)
Gift Certificates

…..more prizes to come

NATIONAL DIVISION WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

Official American Beauties Plus Crown
Official American Beauties Plus Banner
Official American Beauties Plus Scepter
Official American Beauties Plus Business Cards
Floral Presentation
Gift Certificate from Jewels by Jill
Promotion on Pageant Website
Promotion in American Beauties Plus Pageant Literature & Advertisements
Promotion through individual webpage
*Complimentary room at the 2008 American Beauties Pageant
Engraved Trophy
Bath & Body Products
Official Portrait by Studio Prime Time
(Official Photographer for American Beauties Plus Pageant)
*Large Gift Basket (to be given at the 2008 Pageant)

* Given at the 2008 Pageant as long as appearance contract has been fulfilled and queen returns to crown her successor

…… more prizes to come

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT QUEEN

Official Lifetime Achievement American Beauties Plus Crown
Official Lifetime Achievement American Beauties Plus Banner
Official Lifetime Achievement American Beauties Plus Scepter
Large Crown Pin
Floral Presentation
Gift Certificate from Jewels by Jill
Plaque
*Large Gift Basket
Bath & Body Gift Basket

This queen is chosen from the current 2005-2006 Queens and will be announced on stage the night of the 2007 Pageant

* Given at the 2009 Pageant as long as appearance contract has been fulfilled and she returns to crown the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Queen.

…. More to come

DIVISION FIRST RUNNER-UPS WILL RECEIVE

Engraved Plaque
Floral Presentation
Bath & Body Gift Basket
Free Entry to the 2008 American Beauties Plus Pageant

DIVISION SECOND RUNNER-UPS WILL RECEIVE

Engraved Plaque
Floral Presentation
Bath & Body Gift Basket
$150 Discount to the 2008 American Beauties Plus Pageant

DIVISION THIRD RUNNER-UPS WILL RECEIVE

Engraved Plaque
Floral Presentation
Bath & Body Gift Basket
$100 Discount to the 2008 American Beauties Plus Pageant

DIVISION FOURTH RUNNER-UPS WILL RECEIVE

Engraved Plaque
Floral Presentation
Bath & Body Gift Basket
$50 Discount to the 2008 American Beauties Plus Pageant

TALENT WINNER WILL RECEIVE:

National Talent Title
National Talent Crown
National Title Banner
Engraved Trophy

OPTIONAL WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

Plaque

The Optionals are: Photogenic, Community Service, Scrapbook
(Winners will be one in each Optional)

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD WILL RECEIVE:

Crown
Banner
Crown Pin

MISS CONGENIALITY

Official Commemorative Plaque

OTHER AWARDS:

Overall Non-Finalist Interview Award – Certificate

Overall Non-Finalist Dressy Sportswear Award – Certificate

Overall Non-Finalist Evening Gown Award - Certificate

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Plus Size Beauty Pageant: Miss Plus America Pageant to be held in Monroe, LA

July 20th, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Miss Plus America Pageant Slated For July 26 to 29th in Monroe, LA
The Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites will be the host hotel for the 4th Annual Miss Plus America Pageant to be held in Monroe, LA July 26-29th 2006. Delegates from 3 divisions will participate…Miss Plus America (ages eighteen to twenty-nine), MS Plus America (ages thirty and up), and Mrs. Plus America (ages 20 and up who have been married at least one year). Each lady must be a size 14 or greater to enter. The ladies will compete in interview, sportswear, evening gown and photogenic for the title of Miss Plus America Elite. The Elite and Division winners will take home a prize package of more than $10,000!

The delegates have a busy schedule while they are here. Wednesday kicks off the week with registration, A Mary Kay Seminar and Orientation Dinner. Thursday morning the ladies are off to Bossier City to visit the nationally famous Louisiana Boardwalk for a morning of fun-filled shopping and their annual photo shoot. A Cajun Soiree hosted by Miss Plus America, Deidra Foley and her family in Monroe caps off the day. Friday begins with the Judges Breakfast and then filled with rehearsals and the private interview with the judges. Saturday is more rehearsals and culminates with the final competition of Evening Gown and Sportswear at the Strauss Playhouse. An exciting week is planned for the visiting royalty!

The Miss Plus America™ Pageant is sponsored by notable local businesses such as Jules and Co., Richard Lupo Photography, Squires Formal Wear, Robert G. Foley, Attorney at Law, Luffey Huffman and Monroe CPA Firm, Roark’s North Monroe Flowers and Gifts, Celebrity Limousine and Mary Kay Cosmetics; as well as sponsors from across the nation such as CurvyChick Bombshell Magazine, Igigi.com, SizeAppeal.com, Hips and Curves.com, Luggage Pros, the Love Your Body Wristband Project, Sidney’s Closet.com, Fashion Overdose, MonifC Plus Size Clothing, Shelly’s Pageant Express, Linda Martin Ministries, Torrid.com, Chenese Lewis.com and Total Digital Entertainment

The pageant finals will take place at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 29th at the Strauss Playhouse on Lamy Lane in Monroe, Louisiana. For ticket information please contact Melissa Stamper at director@missplusamerica.com. For information on how you may become a delegate of Miss Plus America, visit our website at www.missplusamerica.com.

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