The same old brand-new story

[daphnep]

Every couple of years I read a story in a magazine or on a fashion website. The story goes like this

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[ernunnos]

I believe this would be a picture of Laina Pecora Schechtman as of 2005.
http://www.ranchandcoast.com/archives/july2005/gatherings.html

By 1998 she was getting writeups as a "Mompreneur", which mentions her modeling in passing.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=875&dat=19980125&id=UC1QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VlYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6926,2312254

This shows the product and also mentions her as a Ford Model.
http://books.google.com/books?id=SegCAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA37&ots=SnbMTfmwly&dq=Laina%20Schechtman&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q=Laina%20Schechtman&f=false

Looks like it's still in production.Reply

[daphnep]

Nice going! I'd found the travel bag reference and totally spaced the name change. I am impressed with your superior research skills.

(And it looks like, in many ways, the first plus-sized princess really did live happily ever after.)

[low_delta]

The plus-sized model story I always remember is where the "regular" models thought she was one of the crew. When she corrected them, they were apologetic and then they all got along fabulously.

Made me think about how they treated the crew.

[daphnep]

*snort*

My god.

[raydon_12]

I love your fashion discussions, they often make me think in other ways. After reading this I did a bit of surfing about the net. For women you have your "plus sizes", for guys we have our "big and tall". The more I look around and think about it the more annoyed I am. Most of the so called plus size models are too damn skinny, nowhere near what I would think of as a plus sized woman, and when I look through men's big and tall sections, you only ever see the tall, its like both are afraid to show a truly large, heavy set individual.

[daphnep]

Hmm, maybe women should co-opt "big and tall" as a descriptor.

They don't show the "big", so that men who need to shop in their stores can just imagine that they are particularly strong and robust manly men.

I'm totally "big and tall". I'm strong and robust, anyway. That's it!