on questioning the wrong people about fashion design, modeling, and curves

[elionwyr]

The questioning of what fashion presents as beautiful is - heaven knows! - far from new. It's a little surprising to me that rail thin is still held up as any sort of ideal, but a glance across magazines and television shows that so-thin-her-ribs-are-showing is still the look of choice.

There's logic to it, of sorts - if you believe sizes for

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[fabricdragon]

i know people in every size range. they are all "real"
admittedly many of the images in the magazines are photo shopped to unreality, but the actual people are all "real".

Nikki, of course, is awesome. but thats because she is Nikki.

as a fashion design student, however... one of the issues that designers have is that in school we are pretty well ORDERED to work on a "standard model size" and we rarely get instruction in real grading... sizing up or down.
and you dont just size UP from a 6-8 (the standard, which is closer to a ready to wear 4-6) to a size 14+ by adding an even amount
speaking as a size 18 i see the result of that all the time, in my clothes not fitting

its VERY easy to size down form a 4 to a 0... or up to maybe an 8 but anything beyond that?

[foxyshadis]

John Gabriel's GIFT (nsfw language) basically assures that there will always be negative comments, some out of pure jealousy and envy. It's when you see your friends and family doing it that you really feel disappointed though.

The sad part about being on the Internet is that unless you're on some targeted fetish board, any picture of anyone will get intense negativity from some corner and inappropriate lewdness from another. Even a lot of men like to hop on the "eat a sammich" bandwagon. You just can't please everyone, and people love to vocalize their displeasure.

[adelheid_p]

Gee, I know people who struggle to eat enough to stay at a healthy weight (they are thin --high metabolism). I know that they suffer from cruel barbs by people who are jealous all too often.

I have my own tirade about the fashion industry and advertising, etc. --I will spare you, though. :-)

[danorsong]

I think this is so wel written. I am flabbergast at the hatred of skinny people now that is above and beyond. I'm not happy with my size so I have some personal fat hate, but other woman I find lovely size 00 to as many x's as you need.

[gunslnger]

being cruel because you think you're anonymous

There's one of the fundamental problems, right there. Also, this.