I can't get away with tiny animal print shorts, but surely some of you can? Thirty bucks is a good deal!

This long, strapless printed dress seems versatile — whether you're going to the supermarket, to the beach or to a garden party. $50!

Multi-colored denim — matched to Chucks — just makes it seem like the world is full of joy and possibility. Or maybe it's giving me a flashback. The jeans and the sneaks are $50 each.

Loving the poppy, op-art tunic. Pair with footless tights for a mod look! It's $45. the plaid shirt I'm meh about, though it looks great on the model. ($40)

Hmm, plaid dress? Do we likey? ($45)

Four words: Cute, cute, cute cute! That black and white boy-short suit on the lower right is additionally adorbs.

I've written about being a plus-size shopper who plunders the pages of Alloy before; this issue has plenty of items I covet. Starting with the backdrop on the cover… I don't know where it is, but it looks like a vacay. I want to go to there.

I have some of those Truck jeans (far left) and they fit great. They come in sizes 1-25 and inseams 30"-37". Because — gasp — women come in different shapes and sizes!

Even though I despise jumpsuits, this chick is pulling it off. Maybe because it's a "romper"? Or maybe the backdrop is helping.

Pretty!!! (I could say more, but why?)

I love summery clothes which are loose and loungey. And! That tunic on the right comes in sizes S-XXXL.

For some reason I find that tops with open, square or scooped out necklines are not only flattering to the double Ds but more comfortable and breezy. Hence: Want.

Psst. Yoga pants "super steal."

Teens who wear outfits like this are better-dressed than I am but then again I blog from home in a muumuu.

More pretty. Especially the long dress on the left and the tunic on the right. And everything here is under $50.

Add an ice cream cone and some flip flops and you've got a summer classic.

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• Oh God: It is Spanx for your arms! Or rather, industrial strength tape to hide your excess skin on your upper arms.• More women are entering sports journalism but they are mostly expected to look hot, not to know anything about sports.• Here are some photos of Madonna's rumored Brazilian boy toy, Jesus Luz, who doesn't look a day over 16.• From Yves to Men's Vogue, Refinery29 made a list of the top 50 fashion-related brands/magazines/people that the world lost in 2008.• Don't just wrap up presents this holiday season: Trojan has launched a new holiday campaign where artists create short videos to promote condoms and Trojan donates condoms for every time a video is watched. • The Fug Girls list off the ten things they learned from celebrity fashion this year. Top of their list? Shopping a lot doesn't make you a fashion designer and always do the opposite of Solange Knowles, sartorial-wise.• Racialicious has republished the personal essay "The Not Rape Epidemic" from Yes Means Yes.• Two English women who worked in the Land Girls army during WWII reunited recently only to find that they lived just minutes away from each other.• Stella McCartney is opening up a shop near the Jardins du Palais Royal in Paris.• Craving a Burberry umbrella? Not sure on what is the proper etiquette for umbrella sidewalk-sharing? Read the Bumbershoot Manifesto.• Everything you ever wanted to know about the sexual life of spiders, but were too afraid to ask. • British scientists are working on a "sex chip" to stimulate pleasure centers of the brain with electric shocks.• With the economy going down, will women splurge on simple luxuries like lipstick over previous extravagant splurges? Economists think they will and they are calling it "the lipstick effect."•

Women! I think we can all agree we are guilty enough already! That's why, in lieu of the usual evening Jezebel news roundup, we're presenting you with ten things NOT to worry your head over. Read, and go back to feeling bad about carbs!

• The "Recession": Bull markets are the new black! [Washington Post]
  
• The rising cost of food. I think we all know one place the nation's poor people could use a little "cutting back." [WSJ]
  
• Betraying your feminist principles by marrying rich and staying in the union not a day longer than you'll need to live happily ever after on the alimony. Here's to gender parity: men are doing it these days, too! [WSJ]
  
• Haiti This little dirt-eating nation just got a visit from our very stunning Secretary Of State. Oh Condi, won't you reconsider your stance on joining Republican presidential ticket? It could so use a splash of color. [Wonkette]
  
• The ever-nastier tenor of this presidential campaign. At least one national pageant queen refuses to join the fray. Here's to you, Rachel Smith, for knowing that it sometimes is wisest to be seen and not heard. [Wonkette]

• "Meditating" on your next shopping spree! Now you can worry about whether your puppy's chakras are balanced correctly. [Washington Post]
• Not totally understanding what all the fuss is about "Basra" right now. John McCain doesn't either — and he masterminded the troop surge! [Think Progress]
• The social burden of all those reckless people who signed mortgages they couldn't afford and now think they can just declare bankruptcy. It won't be quite as painless for the ignorant freeloaders it was in the past. [New Yorker]
• That Elizabeth Edwards would be hypothetically left out of John McCain's health plan. Well Jeez, if anyone can afford it, she can. [Think Progress]
• All the nastiness directed at Sarah Jessica Parker lately. She has a really great metabolism. [People]

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