When I had the first job interview in compression after my lipedema diagnosis, I was not wearing arm compression. My concern was that I would be labeled sick and, above all, unattractive for my employer. From today's perspective, it's double nonsense, because now I'm something of an employer myself and know about the strengths of those
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What IS fashion, what does it mean for compression wearers?
A short history of art and an appeal for more awareness and sustainability. Fashion comes from modus = Latin. Manner, measure, “measured”, is the rule of wearing and consuming things within a certain period of time. It changes over time according to people's needs. Items and garments that are positively rated over multiple periods of time
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Fashion and outfits
3 tips for cleaning out your wardrobe: The test for your wardrobe
Everyone knows them, everyone has them - the problem children of our wardrobes. It's those parts that we might have only bought half-heartedly, in the touch of a sale rage or in a state of mental derangement, and which are now vegetating in the closet. Let's be honest, we often grab the same parts over and over again at some point
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Five rituals for the perfect Corona Christmas
Usually every year the thought of Christmas makes my chest two inches narrow. The stress between the already work-intensive everyday life (you don't want to drag old burdens with you into the new year), having a boozy Christmas market with friends over mulled wine and the pressure to find the right gifts for everyone you love is the same every time.
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Lipedema & Lymphedema
Flurry of compression: a colorful review of the year with the VenoTrain® curaflow
This year I tried out a little color. If everything is extraordinary, why shouldn't I be too? True to my motto # courageously share, I tested and shared new outfits. And of course hard-working and even bolder, the compression always appropriately in focus. Who knows me knows, the more colorful and gaudy, the more
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Fashion and outfits
The best fall accessories for women with lipedema
The best accessories for women with lipedema are the most widely cut. Because between the warming autumn sunbeams and the cool wind that sweeps through the streets there are often only seconds, but a perceived 10 ° temperature difference. You quickly get too warm in a jacket and the next moment just too cold again in a sweater. The famous
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Lipedema & Lymphedema
Colored compression - don't be afraid of the colorful flat knit
You are not sure yet whether colored compression suits you and your everyday life? Or is it always great about others, but you haven't dared to take the step yourself? Then I hope that with this article I can take away your shyness from colored compressions, because one thing should be said in advance - colors give you a wide range of possibilities.
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Lipedema & Lymphedema
Navy blue: The gaudy plus size denim look for autumn in compression tights
She has a BRIGHT red pencil skirt, with this pencil skirt she drives HINAAAAAUUUUS! Well, do you all have a catchy tune now? I hope so, because then the mood will be right for this beautiful late summer outfit to match the mediven550® compression in navy blue! Red always puts you in a good mood and when my new bright favorite skirt turns into a happy one
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Lipedema & Lymphedema
Compression - how I fashionably combine lipedema outfits
Today's compressions are modern and have nothing in common with grandma's stiff rubber stockings. I received my diagnosis in November last year and already suspected what to expect as I had been dealing with the subject for a long time. So it wasn't a big surprise when I got the recipe for my first compression tights