Resources

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Sizing Spreadsheet & Guide
Industry size chart resource. Spreadsheet of 180 brands with size expansions and 133 brands size chart measurement data.
Please email sizeinclusion@newschool.edu for access.
Press Release
SIF Reading List
Harding, Kate, and Marianne Kirby. Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body. 1st ed. Tarcher Perigee, 2009. ISBN 9780399534973
Rothblum, Esther, Sondra Solovay, and Marilyn Wann. The Fat Studies Reader. NYU Press, 2009. ISBN 9780814776315
Russo, Gianluca. The Power of Plus: Inside Fashion’s Size-Inclusivity Revolution. 1st ed. Chicago Review Press, 2022. ISBN 978-1641606424
Strings, Sabrina. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. First edition. NYU Press, 2019. ISBN 9781479886753
Volonté, Paolo. Fat Fashion: The Thin Ideal and the Segregation of Plus-Size Bodies. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. ISBN 9781350126954
Journal Articles
Barry, Ben, Calla Evans, and May Friedman. 2021. “Fattening Fabulousness: The Joys and Risks of Troubling Gender through Fat Fashion.” Fat Studies, July, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.1943157.
Christel, Deborah A. 2018. “Fat Fashion: Fattening Pedagogy in Apparel Design.” Fat Studies 7 (1): 44–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2017.1360669.