I have been busy, and that is why there is almost no con­tent from me on this site any­more, although you will find me on the tweets, as per usu­al, though there are of course about a dozen of us who have access to the ‘ista twit­ter account. But that’s not what I’m here to tell you about. No indeed. Back in Decem­ber Martha inter­viewed me about the cloth­ing label that I start­ed. In an update to that sto­ry, House of Boom is prov­ing to be the lit­tle fat com­pa­ny that could, with sea­son three — The Crown Jew­els — launch­ing on August 30, and a pop-up shop in Thorn­don hap­pen­ing on August 31 & Sep­tem­ber 1.

a line of fat babes in great clothing

Fash­ion nev­er cared about me, so I don’t care about “Fash­ion”, of the cap­i­tal F vari­ety. I don’t fol­low design­ers, I don’t care about trends, I don’t care about the colour of the year. I try to make my clothes time­less. I do my ‘sea­sons’ when they are able to be made right here in Welling­ton.

This sea­son is full of gor­geous jew­el toned fab­rics, in sizes 16–30. Of course every­thing is cot­ton — or linen — and of course every­thing has pock­ets. We did the shoot for The Crown Jew­els in the bloody love­ly bar Hang­ing Ditch, and the staff could not have been nicer or the venue look  any pret­ti­er. Thank you Welling­ton for being such a great and gen­er­ous com­mu­ni­ty.

New this sea­son is the ANJI robe, avail­able in four dif­fer­ent colours. All my clothes are named after fat women who inspire me. Anji is one of my pho­tog­ra­phers, and also my old­est sis­ter.

two fat babes in mint green plus size robes made of linen

Also new is the KRIS dress, named after the ‘ista’s Kris, who is also one of my Boomettes — the fat babes who mod­el for Boom. The KRIS is a raglan-sleeve short dress in cot­ton knit. It’s a basic, but it’s def­i­nite­ly not Basic AF.

three fat babes in green dresses

Favourite styles like TIARE, the per­fect A‑line skirt, the CORNELIA pinafore and the KINI sack dress are all back too, in amethyst, sap­phire, ruby and a selec­tion of prints.

three fat babes in orchid pinafores

House of Boom is pre­dom­i­nant­ly sold online, but you get a chance to try before you buy with a pop-up sale this week­end.

When my accoun­tant told me I absolute­ly could not afford to open a phys­i­cal shop, I went home and cried, had some wine — well, a lot of wine. I so des­per­ate­ly want­ed to cre­ate a space where fat peo­ple could actu­al­ly try on clothes and be wel­comed into a space rather than hid­den away like they should be ashamed, which hap­pens basi­cal­ly any­where else plus size clothes are sold. Then I realised that I already have a space I have total con­trol over — the house of the House of Boom, and so I do a pop-up at my home in Thorn­don with each sea­son launch, so peo­ple can come and try on the clothes and all the oth­er pret­ty things and hang out with oth­er fat babes.

a fat babe flashng an empty bar

The pop-up also includes a selec­tion of Reboomed sec­ond-hand plus-size cloth­ing — extend­ing the life of fast fash­ion and pro­vid­ing afford­able options for shop­pers.

House of Boom Pop-up sale

  • 11am-4pm Sat­ur­day August 31 & Sun­day Sep­tem­ber 1

  • 189a Grant Road, Thorn­don (Gate on Aoran­gi Tce!)

  • Cred­it card or eft­pos only please

  • More infor­ma­tion — www.houseofboom.co.nz