Hello all you Cyber Drama Queens
Today’s rant will continue on the issue of fashion. Let me start off by saying that the business I run is based slam in the middle of the fashion industry. This post is dedicated to the sensitive issue of skinny jeans, the model size debate and the overall issue of ones personal image.
Let’s start with the matter of skinny jeans, which have become very popular over the past few years. Let’s just put one issue to rest. If you are large around the hips and are quite flat on top do the world a favour and try to wear a different type of trouser. Some ideas for this is wide leg trousers, this would help you achieve the best and most flattering look without people focusing on your shortcomings. Also sadly and bizarrely some people will be shocked by this Skinny jeans look better on skinny people as the name denotes. I know there are a lot of you out there that will be moaning right now. But please spare me the whinging. Oh boo hoo skinny jeans look good on everyone... aaaaaaaa no they don’t. Also please don’t comment that the fashion world is out to get the larger people. This is completely untrue and a completely narrow minded way of looking at things. If you are a person who is larger in size and does not think this skinny jeans trend is applicable to everyone then you would be right. But I offer that you should think how many items of clothing out there are not suitable or look awful on slimmer people? Ever thought about how all those normal or baggier fit clothes make slimmer people look like they are wearing their parents’ clothes? Do you see any of them complaining? No because they have better things to do than worrying about being prosecuted.
This brings us nicely to the subject of size and model sizes. People these days are banging on about anorexia and bulimia and that they are the product of all these skinny models on the catwalks and in the magazines. In this respect I will say that people are partially right. Yes anorexia and bulimia are bad illnesses (because that’s what they are.) Funny how people who self harm their selves are sectioned and are monitored by the medical services but people with eating disorders do not have to deal with this. Also don’t go banging on about people being large and having all the control in the world to change it. Think for a moment that they might be eating for a reason? However, I do believe that instead of whinging about their weight these people should accept their body and love it or if they want to change then just do it, But seriously do it properly. Eat healthy, smaller portions and exercise for Pete’s sake. No one said it would be easy.
If you are one of those people who hates people who are skinny... have you ever thought that they might be skinny by their nature and regardless of how much exercise they do and how much food they eat they cannot gain weight or get larger in size. How do you think these people feel? People keep banging on about the fashion industry giving people a complex about having to be slim. Have any of these people even stopped for a minute to consider the damage they are causing to naturally slim people who might be prosecuted for having an eating disorder or being a fashion victim, while the only things these people are doing is going on with life with the body type they were given? What I am trying to say is that as a society in our attempt to smooth out some issues we are creating far more.
On the note of model sizes, I partially agree with the masses. Not all models should be a size 0 or size 4 (UK). However think for a minute that these big fashion labels are basically a business and they are trying to sell a product and they have got a small point when they say clothes fit better and look better or smaller sizes. I do not fully agree with this, yes some clothes such as Skinny jeans (as mentioned above) look better on smaller size people. However there are equal amounts of clothing that look better on larger people, such as empire dresses and halter necks. These items only highlight skinny people’s shortcomings, while if they are worn by someone larger they emphasise their best qualities and minimise their less desirable qualities. And this brings me back to the point I made earlier that not all clothes are created for the same body type and fashion and clothing is a luxury and not a right! Wear what suits you and stop whinging about what doesn’t suit you, because I can almost guarantee that what suits you will be a sore point for someone else.
I will leave with you with a question. Now that the sizes are all for larger people what should skinny people wear to look good, again i am referring to the naturally skinny and not people with eating disorders. I know equal amounts of skinny people as I do larger people and they both have the same problem nothing to wear because it doesn’t come in their size. So next time you whinge about something not suiting your body type, think about the people who don’t even have the choice to buy that item in their size.
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