Tanya Fields
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Tanya is CGJ's Fashion Editor. She spent six years on staff at a mid-tier fashion magazine in New York before going independent in 2023, and built her audience the same way she runs this section now: by reviewing clothes in her own size, on her own body, with a working knowledge of how a garment is actually constructed. She'll trash an overhyped brand and praise an underhyped one in the same paragraph. She names stylists - Karla Welch, Law Roach, Ade Samuel - the way most fashion writers cite designers. She wears a 16 on top and 18 on the bottom and uses fashion terminology correctly. If a piece doesn't fit, she'll tell you why - dolman vs raglan, georgette vs chiffon, where the rise is supposed to hit. She is allergic to the words “stunning,” “elevated,” and “every woman needs.”
- Plus-size denim
- Wardrobe architecture
- Brand reviews
- NYFW street style
Recent stories by Tanya
Finally: Bras That Fit a 40-48 Band With a Small Cup (We Found Them)
The bra industry grades every size from one sample, and the math assumes your cup grows with your band. If yours didn't, your size got cut from the line before it was ever sewn. Here are the brands that actually stock a B cup, and even an A, on a 40 to 48 band.
12 min read
Shapewear That Actually Comes in 4X, 5X and 6X: Where to Find It and How Each Brand Runs
Spanx stops at 3X. These brands don't: Torrid to 6X, Cacique to 34/36, Rago to 15X. Every real option above 3X, and how each one runs by buyer consensus.
11 min read
Sensory-Friendly Bras That Still Support a Big Bust: No Wires, No Lace, No Digging
Wire-free usually means support-free above a DD. It doesn't have to. The construction tricks that replace the wire, and the brands that actually build them in G, H and J cups.
12 min read
Torrid vs Lane Bryant vs Eloquii Sizing: The Conversion Chart That Should Exist
Torrid runs 00-6, Lane Bryant 10-40, Eloquii 14-32, Universal Standard 4XS-4XL. We pulled every brand's own published measurements and aligned them into one conversion chart, including the sizes where the brands' numbers stop agreeing with each other.
13 min read
Dressing an Apron Belly in Summer: 9 Outfit Formulas That Beat the Heat Without Layers
The compression layers and long cardigans that make an apron belly comfortable in October become punishment in July. A plus-size fashion editor breaks down nine heat-proof outfit formulas built on fabric and construction instead of layering: tiered gauze maxis over bike shorts, smocked waistbands that flex, high-rise linen wide-legs, and the skort that deserves more credit, with current picks from Torrid, Old Navy, Lane Bryant, Target, and Amazon.
10 min read
Where to Buy Bras in Band Sizes 48 to 56: Every Brand Checked
The only brand list for big bands is a decade old and stops at 40. So we opened the size selector on every brand that claims extended bands and recorded what's actually stocked at 48, 50, 52, 54 and 56, in which cups, wired or wireless, and where to buy it. The checked table nobody else has published.
13 min read
Every Brand That Cut Plus Sizes Since 2020: The Receipts, With Dates
Brands announce size inclusivity with press releases and retreat without one. This is the missing paper trail: every documented plus-size cut since 2020, dated and sourced, plus the shrinkages nobody announced and the brands still showing up. A living record, updated as new cuts land.
15 min read
Wedding Guest Dresses That Actually Come in a Size 26 and Up: Real Options by Dress Code
Every big magazine's plus size wedding guest dress list quietly stops at 3X, as if invitations stop arriving at a size 24. A fashion editor pulled the size selector on every product page and kept only the dresses that genuinely exist in a 26, 28, 30, and beyond, sorted by dress code: black tie, cocktail, garden, and beach.
13 min read
The Best Tummy Control Swimsuits for a Plus-Size Body
Tummy control in a swimsuit comes from construction, not compression. What actually smooths once the fabric is wet, the best style for each situation, and how to size it.
9 min read
How to Choose a Plus-Size Swimsuit You Feel Good In
A swimsuit's job is to work for your body, not the other way around. Shop the construction first: the lining, cups, and straps that decide whether you feel good in it.
7 min read
How to Stop Inner-Thigh Chafing as a Plus-Size Woman (What Actually Works)
Inner-thigh chafing is one of the most fixable body annoyances there is. Here is exactly what stops chub rub for plus-size women, in the order to try it.
7 min read
Faith Hill's Ageless Style Evolution - How to Dress With Her Effortless Country-Glam Confidence at Any Size
Picture a stage washed in warm light, a slow country ballad building, and a woman in a floor-length gown stepping to the microphone with the ease of someone who has never once questioned whether she belongs there. That is the Faith Hill effect. For three decades she has moved between two worlds that rarely coexist [...]
10 min read
Love Island Fashion 2026 - How to Get the Islanders' Best Looks in Plus Sizes
Picture the moment the sun dips behind the villa and the string lights flicker on. Somebody is reapplying gloss by the firepit. Somebody else is sliding into a slip dress that catches the last of the gold light. The whole aesthetic of the show lives in that hour - skin warm from the day, drinks [...]
9 min read
How to Dress for Extreme Heat This Summer - The Best Breathable, Stylish Outfits for Plus-Size Women
The thermometer on the bank sign read triple digits before nine in the morning, and the asphalt parking lot already shimmered like a mirage. A woman stepped out of her car in a flowing linen dress the color of fresh cream, sunglasses pushed up into her hair, and walked toward the farmers market looking like [...]
10 min read
Who Is Katseye? Meet the Girl Group Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Global Pop
Picture a stage in Los Angeles washed in violet light, six women stepping into formation, and a crowd that has flown in from Manila, Mumbai, Lagos, London, and Seoul, all singing the same hook back word for word. No single accent leads the chant. No single face gets to be the "standard" one. That scene, [...]
10 min read
Pink Footwear Is Having a Major Moment - How to Style Bold Pink Shoes for Every Body Type
The first thing you notice walking into any shoe department this season is the wash of color spilling out of the usual sea of black and tan. Soft blush ballet flats sit beside electric fuchsia sneakers, and a row of bubblegum boots catches the overhead light like candy in a jar. Pink has quietly elbowed [...]
10 min read
Festival Fashion for Curvy Women - How to Dress Comfortably and Confidently for a Multi-Day Music Festival
The gates open and a wall of sound and dust and sunscreen hits you all at once, and somewhere in the crowd a girl in a glittering bodysuit is already dancing like the headliner is on, even though it is barely noon and the main stage is still an hour from its first act. That [...]
10 min read
Lizzo at the BET Awards 2026 - How She Owns Every Room and How You Can Too
The flashbulbs were already firing when she stepped onto the carpet at the Peacock Theater, and something shifted in the crowd. Photographers leaned in. Reporters stopped mid-sentence. For a few seconds, the noise of a packed Los Angeles awards night narrowed down to one woman, one shimmering brown gown, and a smile that said she [...]
10 min read
Lauryn Hill's Timeless Style - How the Icon's Fashion Philosophy Inspires Confident Dressing for Women of Every Size
Picture a stage in the late nineties, the lights low and gold, and a woman walking out in a slouchy denim jacket, a headwrap the color of marigolds, and a stack of bangles that caught the light every time she lifted the mic. She did not flinch. She did not tug at her clothes or [...]
9 min read
Best Dressed at the BET Awards 2026 - The Bold Looks Every Curvy Woman Should Steal
The flashbulbs were still warming up outside the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles when the first gowns started arriving, and within an hour the carpet had turned into the kind of fashion conversation that lasts long after the trophies are handed out. The 2026 BET Awards, held on June 28 with Druski hosting, gave us [...]
10 min read
Phoebe Bridgers' Aesthetic - How to Dress Dark Feminine and Ethereal at Any Size
A single bare bulb swings over a stage somewhere in the rain. The crowd is hushed, half of them already crying, and out walks a woman in a skeleton suit, white bones painted across black fabric, hair pale as moonlight, looking less like a pop star and more like a ghost who decided to pick [...]
9 min read
Y2K Beauty and Style Is Back - How to Update Early 2000s Looks for a Modern Curvy Wardrobe
Picture a teenager in 2002 standing in front of a department store mirror, tugging at a pair of bedazzled hip-huggers that pinched in all the wrong places, because the size that fit her hips left two inches of gap at the waist and the size that fit her waist would not button at all. That [...]
9 min read
Zendaya's Most Iconic Style Moments and How to Recreate Them at Every Size
Picture the moment a stylist waved a smoke-emitting wand at the 2019 Met Gala and a grey silk gown slowly lit up and shifted to a glowing pale blue, transforming a young star into Cinderella on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That theatrical light-up Tommy Hilfiger dress, complete with a pumpkin-coach clutch [...]
11 min read
Superhero Style Is Having a Major Moment - How to Wear the Bold, Powerful Aesthetic in Everyday Life
Something shifts in your spine when you put on a coat that means business. You stand a little taller. You take up the room you are owed. That feeling - shoulders back, chin level, ready for whatever the day throws - is exactly what fashion has been chasing all year, and 2026 has given it [...]
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