As I stood atop a hill surrounded by gorgeous Vermont foliage with my friend and fellow plus-size adventurer Arwen Turner, we found ourselves chatting with a guy who asked how we met. Turner shared ...

This is what plus-size apparel, cannabis and esports have in common: they each represent product categories that have been around a long time but that have recently re-invented themselves due to ...

The other day, I found an old Joann Fabrics bag with a couple of yards of leopard-print dancewear fabric I bought over five years ago. The original plan? Make myself a pair of shorts to mountain-bike ...

Old Navy will offer more of its women's apparel in extended sizes, as demand for plus-size apparel rises in the U.S. Old Navy, which is owned by Gap, has offered a limited selection of plus-size ...

The plus-size and big-and-tall apparel business is booming--precisely the reason that the major specialty chains are vulnerable to a growing but largely "invisible" threat from a host of mainstream ...

Fast fashion retailer Rue21 announced Tuesday that it is expanding its plus-size apparel clothing options to 61 additional stores, according to a company press release. That will bring the number of ...

M.M.LaFleur notified some customers last week that the company is pulling back on plus options, according to an email sent to those who previously purchased apparel in those sizes. "We have scaled ...

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Hundreds of millions of fans will watch eSports streaming online and in arenas in 2019, and revenues are expected to top $1 billion this year. If you don’t know about eSports then you have been hiding ...

At the end of 2018, Old Navy’s top executive, Sonia Syngal, told her merchandising team to rethink the brand’s plus-size department. Almost nothing was off limits. “I want you to figure out plus,” ...