Warren is showing the Dancing With the Stars television audience that weight and size should not have to be negatives.

My son was a FAT GUY. If you have not been a Mom of an O-line or D-line football player, you have not been a Mom of a FAT GUY. Football players honor their big, burly front-linemen. They are needed for the game. They protect their quarterback and they go after the other teams quarterback. These big guys NEED to be big, and the are celebrated for it!There is no real equivalent for women. Would it not be a better world, if women could be a healthy small, medium or large, and also be celebrated?

Our society has gotten so skewed into thinking that an actress that is a size 4 is FAT. You know you have heard the gossip on the tabloid television shows. Even Cheryl Burke, from Dancing With the Stars, has been in the headlines on these shows, because she gained a few pounds over the summer, and she is being chided as being FAT. She is not. She is in wonderful condition! As she has stated in interviews, her body was not meant to be thin. It was meant to be womanly. We should all know by now, that the AVERAGE size of women today, in the USA is a size 14. A size 14 is a healthy size. The most important thing is not SIZE, but if you are healthy.

Anorexia and bulimia continue to run rampant. Many women who are a size 4 or a size 0 are NOT healthy. Can we just start to be realistic about what size we need to be? I am FAT. I am not as healthy as I wish I were. But, I am a lot more healthy than I used to be. I try to eat more vegetables and less of everything else. I work on portion control and not gorging on my favorites. My husband and I try to briskly walk around our neighborhood almost every evening.

I have always been a big person. I have always wanted to look beautiful, myself. Luckily I have a wonderful husband who sees me as beautiful and constantly reminds me of how he feels. But in our society, I am not considered beautiful. I am considered fat, chubby, hefty, large, plus-sized, obese, chunky, heavy, plump, full-figured, or maybe portly, but never beautiful. Why? Because I am not a size 0, a size 4, a size 10 or even a size 14. Is this fair? No. Is it the way it should be? No. But, as I said, in todays society, I am NOT considered beautiful.

My mission with Satin Stitches is to create beautiful costumes for our beautiful clients, of ALL sizes and shapes. I know that it can be easy to create flattering costumes for perfect sized dancers. It takes a little more talent and finesse, to create flattering costumes for imperfectly shaped dancers.

At Satin Stitches, we design and create costumes for solo dancers, but more often, we are designing for groups. I have been on a quest to make sure that EVERY dancer on a team looks their best. In previous blogs, I have discussed that correct FIT and PROPORTION in costuming, are the keys for everyone looking their best. Large people are more noticed and can stick out like a sore thumb, when they are dressed in ill-fitting and badly designed costumes.

For all the years that I have been in business, I have been trying to help those with imperfect shapes to look their best and fit in with their dancemates, those with petite, perfect bodies. I have a sensitivity to the self-esteem of girls and young women, and always strive to build this, with costuming. I want every dancer to feel beautiful in their Satin Stitches costumes.

So Warren, for all the FAT GUYS and gals, do us proud, with your fancy footwork, your charm, and sophisticated, flattering costuming!

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