Posted on 01/12/2012 8:24:46 AM PST by US Navy Vet
A size 6 is now plus size in the fashion world, and most runway models meet the physical criteria for anorexia, according to a report that offers shocking insight into the disparity between models and the real-life women they are purporting to represent.
In the January issue of PLUS Model Magazine, plus size model Katya Zharkova and a straight size model are seen in the nude in an attempt to “open the minds of the fashion industry," which is stepping further away from reality, according to PLUS founder and editor-in-chief, Madeline Figueroa Jones.
Photo courtesy of PLUS Model Magazine.
The magazine reveals that some of today’s plus size models are wearing the same size as models Christie Brinkley, Paulina Porizkova and Cindy Crawford at the height of their fame in the 1990s. Zharkova, 28, wears a size 14
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I’ve never understood the “heroin addict” look most of the models seem to be cultivating either.
For viewing after work...
That young lady is simply mouth-watering.
And yes, the homosexuals that define fashion trends are purposefully picking models that closely resemble boys.
Stay focused!
My former was a size 0 and she is a real woman.
It’s OK to weigh 110#, it’s not OK to weigh 110# and be 6 ft. tall. If the models were 5’-4” they would look better and be more attractive.
the designers also pick the women who most resemble their taylor manequin. they design the clothes to drape on that mold so they need models to display it the same.
Homosexuals can not understand that men want women to look like women.
Then again it is also homosexual women who run the fashion magazines.
No but the article states that a size 6 is now considered a plus size. I am betting that some of the models we grew up with were a 4 or 6.
¨Uh homina-homina....¨
A size 6 is not what it used to be. I buy vintage and I know. If you fit a size 6 that was manufactured in 1970, the size 6 made today is going to be very, very big on you.
I was just shopping the other day, trying to find a petite size zero or even a 2; girls size 12 are similar, but who wants to walk around wearing glitter, lollipops and unicorns? :(
Dayum.
*thud*
That is true, yes. However, the models ARE getting skinnier as well. It is moving in opposite directions.
It seems that as America gets fatter, the ideals that Hollywood feeds us as “beautiful” get thinner, and further from attainability.
That doesn’t even enter the “a bit chubby” matrix IMHO.
Granted I myself have a lot of weight to lose, but still.
What they have done with sizes is utterly ridiculous. I have been a size 10 for more than 30 years. Last spring I was buying a new outfit, something I hadn’t done in a number of years. According to the particular line of clothing in this store - I am a 4 or 6. Never in my life have I ever worn that size.
I’m going to go against all of you here. Go back to the 1950s and your average woman on the street was much much thinner than the average lardass piggies you see everyday today. They have changed the dress sizes too. Used to be a size 4 was an extremely skinny woman, and a size 6 was about as thin as you could get and still have breasts. Nowdays a size 6 is a chubby little piggy.
Okay Gabz... I demand that line of clothing! A size 10 to a 4... give it to ME right now. LOL!
My wife has the same problem. Despite being 30-years old and having borne me two sons, she remains very small. About 5'1" and 95 lbs. Nothing "adult" fits her at all. We either have to look in the very limited petite section or the age-innapropriate juniors' or children's section for clothes that fit her. Yes, she has t-shirts with glitter and butterflies. But, at least they fit!
Okay Gabz... I demand that line of clothing! A size 10 to a 4... give it to ME right now. LOL!
To clarify, the shopping I did was at a mall selling new clothes. Online you can still find lots of good vintage clothing in petite sizes. In the stores, they often pinch the garment with clips and hangers to make it look smaller, then when you examine it you find there’s enough extra material there to cover two people.
Small people need to learn to sew. And don’t even get me started about women with feet smaller than a size 5.
Then there’s all the pigeon-toed models out there. When did apparent hip dislocation become attractive??? I’m getting depressed now...
Yes-—but the perceptions of “what is beautiful” is laid down by the culture. Our cultures is presenting unattainable (if you stay healthy) goals to girls which destroy their health and eating. The comparison which is necessary when you are growing up-—you have to have role models and ideals—warps their perceptions of beauty.
These perceptions are destroying many girls. (Homosexuals care most about lust—not about what they do to societies. They are immoral by their very actions of demeaning their own bodies and that of others.) They despise women and don’t care if they destroy them-—in fact, they would like that world as long as boys were being supplied to them.
Culture always affects perceptions and attitudes. That is why the culture is important in civil societies. We have allowed our culture to be taken over by a few Marxists who control all MSM and the schools to determine what those “ideals” are.
Parents (if they are good) need to protect their children from much of the current culture because Marxists have been destroying the ideas of Virtue since the 50’s-—starting with the flooding our culture with the ideas of Kinsey the pedophile and Hugh Hefner—the ideas of people whom objectify human beings and use them for demeaning purposes.
Virtue needs to be promoted in healthy societies. Ours is very sick and corrupt. This is written about at length by many authors-—in documenting the destruction of our schools and institutions-—takeover by the Fabian socialists to destroy Christianity and the Natural Family—the two pillars of Western Civilization. John Dewey took the major step in starting indoctrination into moral relativism and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. established our legal system so that it would be Rule of Man instead of Rule of Law—so chaos and obscenity would be promoted.
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