Feel Good In What You Wear!™
stylist: plus size fashion and footwear
As the author of Pretty Plus: How to Look Sexy, Sensational and Successful No Matter What You Weigh,
a personal stylist, and a woman who "walks the walk," I offer insights and tricks that will turn the pity party
into a pretty party! A dose of inspiration, time, attitude and informed spending create my own tonic for looking and feeling
better and better. That is the message of Talking It U.P. (Ulla Popken's blog) which I am the voice of.
WHY SETTLE FOR LOOKING TEN POUNDS THINNER? by PATRICIA MCLAUGHLIN
Babe
Hope thinks women who wear plus sizes should forget about dressing to look thinner and instead dress to look pretty...After
a lifetime of struggling to look acceptable, then deciding to give up on looking acceptable and go for looking fabulous, and
then launching a business that helps other plus size women decide how they want to look and shop for a wardrobe that delivers,
she's written a book to show how it's done....
But what's most impressive about
the book it its ambition: It goes way beyond offering to make large women look marginally thinner. Hope -- her name couldn't
be more appropriate -- wants to change your way of being in the world, liberate you from your culturally induced sense that
you need to be apologizing for yourself, free you to take pleasure in who you are and how you look. Brava!
LIBRARY JOURNAL
Having struggled
with weight issues her entire life, Hope, a national Plus-Size Fashion Examiner...wants to help her plus-sized sisters look
sexy, sensational and successful. Her guide includes suggestions for purchasing quality undergarments, building outfits that
accent one's frame instead of weight, and selecting accessories that highlight one's best feature...Positive, practical advice
for the thousands of women who do not fit the fashion industry's ideal: destined to be a hit.
BOOKVIEWS by ALAN CARUBA
In a culture obsessed with being thin, many women have had to struggle
with weight loss, constant diets, and the demand to look their best. Have I got a book for them! Pretty Plus...Babe
Hope, its author, provides step-by-step guidance that shows how plus size women can be stunning and raise their self-esteem
at the same time. This is a real go-to source filled with tips on shopping, choosing the right attire and accessories
for career, leisure and romance. This is the book full-figured women have been waiting for. The author holds Bachelor's,
Master's and Law degrees, as well as a Doctorate, so this is not some airhead bunch of bubbly nonsense. Its the real thing.
FOREWORD REVIEWS
For readers who've decided
to exchange "lose weight" for "be happy," there's Babe Hope's Pretty Plus...she discusses ways
that women with different shapes can camouflage the negatives and accentuate the positives of their figures...The book also
contains helpful illustrations of casual and dressy outfits for women of each silhouettes...with lists of resources for plus-size
women.
PLUS-SIZE TIPS by SHARON MOSLEY
When it comes to wearing plus-size clothes, it's all about
attitude, says Babe Hope, author of a new guidebook: Pretty Plus...Since Hope has struggled with weight issues all
her life, she has decided to transform her "pity party" into a "pretty party" by writing a book that gives
fashion skills to plus-sized women.
