midi petite dress Coast Women's Short Sleeve Chiffon in Blue and a thigh Women's Petite Green Floral Pleated

I love the background

Fern Chen, Designer Growing up in New Zealand, Fern Chen loved fashion and textiles

Scuff sanding the body: I scuff-sanded the body and drawer fronts using 220 grit foam pads on my SurfPrep

The photoreceptors convert light rays into nerve signals, which are then processed by nerve cells in the inner retina, sent to the brain, and translated as images

I feel at times wedding dress shopping put me back at square one in terms of my body love journey. In 2019, The Knot released a fashion study on size inclusion that highlighted how differently size-12-plus brides approached dress shopping with significant disparity in satisfaction of available sizes