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Here's some of the green products that I sell so that I can totally greenwash my environmental image! But, seriously, let's have a chat about sustainability. It's often said with clothes, you can choose two of affordable, sustainable and ethical - and with clothes for fat people, you're lucky if you even get to pick one. When I started House of Boom, I made a very clear choice - I wanted to be ethical. But I have to qualify that - my ethics centre on what I have control over, here in NZ. My fabrics come from overseas. Most of...

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Let me tell you a bit more about where the money from clothes go, because I’ve just been working on reconciling my bank accounts so I’ve got a good picture of this.

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As part of continuing to make House of Boom a place by fat people for fat people, I’m stoked to announce we’re now stocking prints and embroidery by Dimmie Danielewski, yay! 

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knickers, suppliers -

After far too many emails when I mistakenly called her Terri, I had a chat to the wonderful Toni from Fanny Adams to ask her about what's going on behind the scenes of the knickers that keep our butts so happy.  How did you get into the underpants game in the first place?  I began making my own 15 years ago when I became exasperated with the quality of underwear that was available. Tell me a little bit more about yourself and Fanny Adams - is it just you, are there a team of people? Initially, it was just me doing...

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