models
occasionally i watch a show on sunday mornings, Australia's next top model. why? well, i like to see how they are advised to eg. work the light. it's not really the modeling i'm interested in but the foundation nitty gritty the have to work with like photography and themes. i also like the cat fighting haha.
Well today i saw something at the end of the show, a preview for next week, a model who is a size ten was told she wouldn't be put on a catwalk at a size ten. Perhaps there is more to it than that (i only saw a few seconds preview) but wow... size ten is small. The average size in the uk/ireland is 14 though reports always vary from 12 to 16. 10 is good, not big and not sickly small. An 8 or a 6 is however considered too small unless you are naturally petite and tall/slim.
i know the modeling industry is changing, ive heard things here and there like the report about a french fashion show that wouldnt allow people under 16 or something like that. and they opened the show with a string ofb size 14's. but obviously it is a thing that's changing slooooooowly. even if a catwalk still accepts size zero, to say a 10 is too big would be hilarious if it wasnt so serious. its not just size, people starve themselves and adversely affect their health, develop eating disorders and suffer depression to try to conform.
unless the model is naturally thin (fast metabolism maybe) then it's just not natural beauty. it cant be a brilliantly happy existence.
ive long understood catwalk fashion is quite often just an art. who'd wear most of that stuff on the street? but even then most women would appreciate seeing how clothes would look on THEM not on an ironing board frame. Just look at mannequins in a shop window. thyere always stupidly slim and how clothes sit on one of those will be very different to how they look on a real body. some women wont care about it but some do. And even if like me you couldnt give a flying duck about fashion trends there will come a time when you need something particular maybe for a special occasion or a new pair of trousers: you might see something 'perfect' for you on a mannequin but when you try it on its awful, pockets stick out or they wont go over bums and hips or sit oddly on boobs. that doesnt help your confidence no matter how well you know the clothes were just not designed for your shape.
its a bit of a pet peeve, when i was a chubby teenager i had trouble finding trousers that went over my hips band ass, the larger tops i needed also tended to have big bust areas so my boobs were comically dwarfed. i grew out of the puppy fat when it was 20 and it went fast (for a while people wondered if i was sick!) so i had to replace my entire wardrobe (only a few things could be taken in) and i encountered a new problem. finding trousers that were long enough AND went over my butt (hey, its booty central), i still found tops can be stupidly large in the bust area but at least a few bstitches here n there sorted that ot. but when i was larger id see something perfect for a wedding on a mannq. and try it on and if i COULD get it on it looked awful. i had no choice with my debbs ball gown but to avoid sweets and fizzy stuff for weeks before the ball cos i had the largest dress in the shop and i really wanted that one (it was a 14/16) this was in the day you couldnt get much nice looking for a larger figure. then when i suddenly lost it all and went looking for new clothes i did occasionally see something on a manneq that seemed a good staple, something that could be dressed up or down. id try it on only to find that despite my size im just not an ironingboard like the mannequin. i care less about that than i did, im more confident. but if you arent having a good deay it'll hit you
Well today i saw something at the end of the show, a preview for next week, a model who is a size ten was told she wouldn't be put on a catwalk at a size ten. Perhaps there is more to it than that (i only saw a few seconds preview) but wow... size ten is small. The average size in the uk/ireland is 14 though reports always vary from 12 to 16. 10 is good, not big and not sickly small. An 8 or a 6 is however considered too small unless you are naturally petite and tall/slim.
i know the modeling industry is changing, ive heard things here and there like the report about a french fashion show that wouldnt allow people under 16 or something like that. and they opened the show with a string ofb size 14's. but obviously it is a thing that's changing slooooooowly. even if a catwalk still accepts size zero, to say a 10 is too big would be hilarious if it wasnt so serious. its not just size, people starve themselves and adversely affect their health, develop eating disorders and suffer depression to try to conform.
unless the model is naturally thin (fast metabolism maybe) then it's just not natural beauty. it cant be a brilliantly happy existence.
ive long understood catwalk fashion is quite often just an art. who'd wear most of that stuff on the street? but even then most women would appreciate seeing how clothes would look on THEM not on an ironing board frame. Just look at mannequins in a shop window. thyere always stupidly slim and how clothes sit on one of those will be very different to how they look on a real body. some women wont care about it but some do. And even if like me you couldnt give a flying duck about fashion trends there will come a time when you need something particular maybe for a special occasion or a new pair of trousers: you might see something 'perfect' for you on a mannequin but when you try it on its awful, pockets stick out or they wont go over bums and hips or sit oddly on boobs. that doesnt help your confidence no matter how well you know the clothes were just not designed for your shape.
its a bit of a pet peeve, when i was a chubby teenager i had trouble finding trousers that went over my hips band ass, the larger tops i needed also tended to have big bust areas so my boobs were comically dwarfed. i grew out of the puppy fat when it was 20 and it went fast (for a while people wondered if i was sick!) so i had to replace my entire wardrobe (only a few things could be taken in) and i encountered a new problem. finding trousers that were long enough AND went over my butt (hey, its booty central), i still found tops can be stupidly large in the bust area but at least a few bstitches here n there sorted that ot. but when i was larger id see something perfect for a wedding on a mannq. and try it on and if i COULD get it on it looked awful. i had no choice with my debbs ball gown but to avoid sweets and fizzy stuff for weeks before the ball cos i had the largest dress in the shop and i really wanted that one (it was a 14/16) this was in the day you couldnt get much nice looking for a larger figure. then when i suddenly lost it all and went looking for new clothes i did occasionally see something on a manneq that seemed a good staple, something that could be dressed up or down. id try it on only to find that despite my size im just not an ironingboard like the mannequin. i care less about that than i did, im more confident. but if you arent having a good deay it'll hit you