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Friday, July 10, 2009 12:00 AM

A slap in the face to fat girls

Beth Ditto may be a hip plus-size icon, but her new clothing line feels like an insulting throwback to a 1985 Kmart
Kate Harding

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  • Friday, July 10, 2009 01:53 PM

    WOW!

    What an angry article! Beth Ditto puts out a line of clothes that match her funky, ironic, hipster sensibility and somehow she becomes a stand in for the entire fashion industry and it's failure to please overweight women?

    —Jiggs11 Read Jiggs11's other letters

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