kellyfaircloth
Kelly Faircloth
kellyfaircloth
Senior Editor at Jezebel, specializing in books, royals, romance novels, houses, history, and the stories we tell about domesticity and femininity. Resident Windsor expert.

Dear almost-every-indie-website-for-plus-size-women:

This needs to be an inch shorter and then get the hell into my closet

Replace the straw with a wool hat for the winter and hell yeah!

I will take one of these in every color!

There are so many plus size options now? Help me out, please. I know ASOS, E-Shaki, and Lane Bryant are where I do most of my shopping these days. Read more

You know, I don’t understand why LB would remind its customers that they aren’t thought of as “equal” when working to revitalize their image. Shit like that and the whole Real Woman campaign may have worked in the nineties and naughties, but plus-size women have had far better options for a couple of years now. LB Read more

Sorry - I know this is slightly off-topic for this article, but you mentioned frustration with finding things like shorts in a market that favors sizes 12 and under. I just wanted to share that Polyvore is an excellent search tool for women of all sizes, because you can narrow your search by size (also price, brands, Read more

I would totally wear this entire outfit, minus the hat. And I would rock it.

So let me get this straight. Columbia just found treasure on a Spanish ship, which was carrying it from South America to Spain. Presumably this is the same gold the Spanish forced the natives to bring them on pain of death? And they have paperwork (that they wrote, after the stealing) that says it is their stuff?

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These are Colombia’s gold and emeralds. It belongs to them. Period. Read more

These look a lot like the Thin Mints my father found after hiding them from his wife 10 years earlier.

On the other hand, the Netherlands still exist as well, as does Spain, and the Rape of Antwerp by Spanish forces (1576) has never been settled, legally speaking. If Spain wants to claim a portion of treasure under its “patrimony” it must be held accountable for other, murderous acts it committed from roughly the same Read more

I know someone who found valuables in a shipwreck in Lake Erie. He thought he was going to be rich. 15 years later, all he has to show for it is court costs; the international laws are simply too obscure and disputable. Read more