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Greetings and welcome back to EthicalStyle.com, where you can share your thoughts on ethics in fashion. This time we bring you the body issue and the weighty questions that arise from body image in the industry. Our next issue is a few weeks away, but in the meantime you can get your daily fashion fix on the Behind the Seams blog.

The Body Issue
How do you feel about your body?

  • A-Plus Designers
    Blogger Grechen Cohen shares her favorite plus-size eco-designers
  • Sealed With A Hiss
    Should Canada's 2010 Olympic uniforms include a strip of sealskin?

The End of Skinny
Did the British media jump the gun in declaring that thin is ‘out’?

  • 'Growth Industry'
    Sounding off on obesity activist MeMe Roth's critique of plus-size fashion

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie
Green swimsuit ideas for all body types

  • Too Rich or Too Thin
    Hydroxycut has been recalled from the drugstore but not from the fashion mags

Seam Ripper
A sampling of five stories taken from Behind the Seams

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