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