Cheers,
knewshound
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 went to an exhibit of movie stars’ evening gowns — Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Crawford, Lonnie Anderson, etc. Those women were petite — I would say a size 6 by today’s standards and short. The camera puts on 20 lbs.
I saw Lonnie Anderson in person. Very petite even in heels. I always thought she was tall and voluptuous, but that’s just the camera.
“I remember not too long ago reading about a model who was 5’10” and 157 lbs being told she was too heavy to be a plus-size model.”
Only sutable for a weight reduction ad from a fat farm!
That pic is just disturbing.
The “Twiggy” trend started back in 1960s.
Read more about it here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiggy
Twiggy and the magazines featuring her image polarised critics from the start. Her boyishly thin image was criticized as, and is still blamed for, promoting an “unhealthy” body ideal for women.[31][32] “Twiggy came along at a time when teen-age spending power was never greater,” said Su Dalgleish, fashion correspondent for the London Daily Mail. “With that underdeveloped, boyish figure, she is an idol to the 14- and 15-year-old kids. She makes virtue of all the terrible things of gawky, miserable, adolescence.”[33] At the height of her fame, Mark Cohen, president of Leeds women’s shop had an even harsher view: “Her legs remind me of two painted worms.” Yet Twiggy had her supporters. Diana Vreeland of Vogue stated, “She’s no flash in the pan. She is the mini-girl in the mini-era. She’s delicious looking.”[33] In recent years Twiggy has spoken out against the trend of waif-thin models, explaining that her own thin weight as a teenager was natural: “”I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly – being thin was in my genes.”
Twiggy was soon seen in all the leading fashion magazines, commanding fees of £80 an hour, bringing out her own line of clothes called “Twiggy Dresses” in 1967,[24] and taking the fashion world by storm.[25] “I hated what I looked like,” she said once, “so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.”[21] Twiggy’s look centered on three qualities: her stick thin figure, a boyishly short haircut[6] and strikingly dark eyelashes.[26] Describing how she obtained her prominent eyelashes, now known as Twiggys, she said, “Back then I was layering three pairs of false eyelashes over my own and would paint extra ‘twigs’ on my skin underneath.
Amen, brother, amen. And... whew.
In order to please the homo-centric fashion industry, the girls have to diet down to skin and bones.
Then, when they are no longer attractive to real men due to lack of curves, they have to head to the plastic surgeon’s office for various strategically placed pads of silicone.
it’s insane.
Since everything is made in China, maybe we ought to straighten them out about the shape of the occidental human. My research lab over to the Wal-Mart lot has also convinced me that many Americans should not be allowed to leave their homes. Why the hell are we all dressing like ragamuffins?
Thank you, God. ;-)
Try going to the FOX article and clicking the link from there.
Hollywood Auction Ends Myth of Zaftig Marilyn: Virginia Postrel
***The “Twiggy” trend started back in 1960s.***
I remember those days! She was so thin and ugly that Al Capp’s LIL ABNER did a spoof on her with a model named “Icky”
***Since everything is made in China, maybe we ought to straighten them out about the shape of the occidental human.***
Ever notice how items made overseas are different even though they are the “same” sizes?
US made shirt fits me. Oriental shirt, same size, does not. Same for shoes and pants, hats.
US made Levis fit me. Mexican, Guatamalan, Honduran and Colombian Levis do not even though they are the same size.
“Lollipops” all over the media now: Big head, stick body.
I went to art and design school in the 60s, which had a thriving fashion department. Then, in Vogue magazine and the like, "a perfect size 10" was considered the ideal for models.
In 1965 pattern size I wore was a 12. 5 feet 8 inches and 110. Then it was a 10 when patterns were resized about 1968. I am still the same height and weigh about 118, but now wear a size 6. It is an attempt to make people ignore weight gain. It’s all feel good marketing.
The solution to all this is to size women’s clothes like men’s - by actual measurement.
If you have a 28” waist, that’s your waist size, and your inseam is 28” then voila.
Of course that would throw the whole “vanity sizing” feel good crap out the window.
The average woman was, yes.
What has changed, however, is what the “ideal” is according to Hollywood and the modeling industry.
The “ideal” has gotten less curvy (with an exception among the Latina and Black communities) and more thin and boyish as all of us of both genders have gotten larger.
Hardly. Although I agree with the gist of your post.
I have a few thoughts.
Granted, this is coming from a guy who is overweight. However, I think there are two sides to this whole thing and both have some merit.
Yes - we’re fatter than we used to be, but yes, I also think the “ideal” is smaller, not necessarily weight-wise, but body type wise, than it used to be, most models do have a more boyish and thin shape than they used to.
However, I think a basic point of all this is simple. There are some women who do naturally have a larger or curvier body type and that is also beautiful, and that many women cannot and will not ever be a thin boyish waif as it’s not in their bone structure, genetics, or natural build. That’s not the same as saying that everyone should weigh 350 lbs either.
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