Lane Bryant Name Changes to Woman Within

Straight from their release:

"Woman Within®, with over 100 years of experience, offers comfort, fit, selection and value in women's plus-size clothing from 12W-44W. We offer casual, career, special occasion, maternity apparel, sleepwear and intimates, casual & career shoes in wide widths to size 14 and plus-calf boots. Special deals and web only pricing offers for web customers. New items added to clearance weekly for savings up to 75%!"

While Woman Within has a new name, their commitment to comfort, style and value continues to be the hallmark of the brand. With extensive experience designing fashions in sizes 12W to 44W, Woman Within remains as the leader in women's plus-size apparel."

Coincident with this announcement, here are several very nice offers from Woman Within:

Woman Within - 20% off all purchases of $100 or more with code WW15027, 10/1-10/31

Woman Within - $20 off orders of $80 or more with code WW15035, 10/1-10/31

Woman Within - Free Shipping on all orders of $75 or more with code WW15050, 10/1-10/31

Woman Within - Buy 3 items, get 4th free, least expensive item is free, code WW15068, 10/1-10/31

Their new banners look like this:



and this:




PSL proudly represents Woman Within here, on the blog, and in our store. This fine outlet for womens plus size apparel is featured on our store's main page as Today's Featured Favorite for October 11, 2007. (To visit prior Featured Favorites, navigate to the PSL forum calendar.)

Plus Size Modeling Opportunity to Check Out

Earlier we were talking about plus size models and modeling opportunities. If you're serious about it, check this out, brought to us by Mewv and Skorch Magazine. Looks interesting... going to give it a shot?

Recognizing our Stress Reactions and Responses

Three days of holiday weekend - technically four as my husband had Friday off - and I've decided to do not much more than thoroughly enjoy having him around for four days straight. Stress seems to come to a standstill when he's at home.

So let's talk about stress for a moment before I go back to relaxing and doing not much of anything.

Stress is a fact for everyone. In terms of physics, stress is a measure of force per unit area within a body. Thanks, Wikipedia! Even though I managed to get all the way through high school without taking a physics course, I recognize that gravity is stress. Moving against gravity demonstrates physical stress. That is normal and unavoidable, and will continue at a relatively constant rate unless we all move to the moon where gravity is lower!

The types of stress that become a concern are medical, mental, emotional, spiritual - probably not the stress source itself so much as how we manage them.

Some people manage stress easily or with no apparent outward difficulty. Others react to stress but then recover. Still others react strongly to every bit of stress to hit their doorstep.

Stressors can come from one huge event - a house fire, an auto accident, death of a loved one - or from the tiniest situation - spilling wine on a rug, finding a jar lid that just won't open, a broken fingernail, a missed hair appointment, an added pound on the bathroom scale.

A stressor that can totally derail one person may be trivial to another. One person may handle huge stressors gracefully and yet be completely blown apart by a much smaller event.

One of us may be able to handle the stress of chronic pain but still be totally derailed by the pounding of a drum set next door. Maybe we can deal with the broken pickle jar gracefully but are brought to tears by discovering a small tear in our favorite sweater.

There's a difference between how we react to stress and how we respond to stress.

One person may react to stress calmly, absorbing the difficulty and taking things in stride. Another may react to stress by fracturing emotionally. Yet another may react physically with skin disorders, headaches, migraines.

Each of us responds to stress in different ways as well. Some people get mad, shout, hit walls, scream at the top of their lungs, punch pillows, cry, go for a run, overeat, forget to eat.

Others may respond by growing uncharacteristically quiet, withdrawing from friends, avoiding social contact, appearing depressed (not to be confused with clinical depression, which should be addressed no matter what stressors are present).

What stresses you out? How do you react? How do you respond? Feel free to share anonymously.