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Big Brooklyn Style

By Melissa Camacho, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 12+

Boutique owner offers plus-sized fashion, positive messages.

TV TLC Reality TV 2012
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What's the Story?

BIG BROOKLYN STYLE is a reality show featuring plus-size women's clothing designer Lisa Dolan as she runs her Brooklyn-based boutique, Lee Lee's Valise. Along with her husband and store manager Jim, and her friend and associate Katie Cardone, she helps larger women who struggle to find attractive and well-fitting clothes find outfits that work for them. While she gives them clothing options and styling tips designed to enhance their curves, she also helps them feel more confident about who they are and how they look.

Is It Any Good?

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The lighthearted series offers lots of styling tips for full-figured women, ranging from what kinds of colors and prints they should wear to the various ways a dress that is well-proportioned to their bodies can be worn. Dolan also reveals some of the specific tailoring details that should go into creating clothing for fuller-figured women in order to make them fit right.

It's definitely a promotional vehicle for Dolan's clothing designs as well as her boutique. But if you can look past this, you will also find a show that is trying to empower full-figured women to feel comfortable in their own skin. It also sends the message that women of all shapes and sizes have the right to be fashion forward and feel beautiful.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about body image issues. What kinds of expectations does society have about the way women should look and the sizes they should be? How does the media create and/or reinforce these expectations?

  • Why would Lisa Dolan agree to be featured in this reality show? What does she stand to gain or lose?

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