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Is plus size the new standard ?
Posted by Tweeting RevolutionDare I imagine a time that we, and indeed the fashion industry as a body , will finally admit that rake -thin is not the norm, nor is it healthy? I acknowledge that clothing can appear better on a statuesque, thin model but notice that I said can.
If the clothes are meant to give a woman an idea of how she will
be seen in a garment , then for the majority a skinny model will not provide an truly representative picture. At the end of the day , the goal of the fashion houses is to sell and customers will not buy if they’re not sold to.
We people often ignore those nagging gut feelings that are always right , if only we just paid attention, and we allow our emotional baggage to dictate how we rationalize not listening to that sensible, intuitive voice.
A woman can be coerced into a dress by other women, sometimes despite the fact it doesn’t look good . I’ve witnessed girls displaying such body non flattering fashion that it makes me cringe at my own womanhood. Now some of this comes down to poor taste, absence of style, misperception even, but not entirely.
lingerie and fashion in general is witnessing a move towards mainstream as attitudes shift . Have you ever watched a man shopping? He will enter a clothing store, scan the store in no more than 45 seconds usually , and make a decision whether he wants to shop there.
When he decides to try clothes on, he will decide instantly what he is comfortable wearing, what suits his perception of himself, how he’d want to show himself to the world and whether the clothes he is wearing fits all those criteria. A girl , will often go into a clothing store even if she doesn’t necessarily like the look of the store . She’ll take stock of every shelf and rack, and check every garment on every rack , just in case there is something there that she PERHAPS likes.
A woman will try it on, bounce it around, question her boyfriend if her rear looks big, her friends if she looks hot, the sales staff their opinion and so-on. Of course this isn’t always the case . Some women are very decisive about Plus size corsets styles they like and don’t ask anyone else for an opinion. The crux of the matter is that men are precise when it comes to how they appear and women are a lot more emotional and emotionally needy when it comes to how they look. Women use on our clothes and make-up and lingerie to make us feel a particular way.
We look to the experts to inform us what it is we should be feeling. When these experts remind us repeatedly again that tall, thin models are how we should look, we receive confused signals.
I’m not saying we should start expecting the fashion industry to use fat models. That would serve to every one’s detriment. I’m just proposing that a size 12 or 14 girl can be just as beautiful, sexy and desirable as what we’re told a size 0 girl is. Imagine how perception might shift if women got used to walking into boutiques where images of the garments were presented on healthy looking, plus-size models. Imagine if you went corsets shopping with or for your man and walked in to a shop that used pictures of the beautiful Crystal Renan or Kim Kardashian wearing gorgeous . These women aren’t large. They are healthy, proportionate women. Imagine if that’s what you were used to seeing when you went into that shop . Picture if across the street there was another lingerie store selling similar items but displayed on size 0 models. In which store would you feel more likely to succumb to those negative voices in your head that make you feel judged? Which store would you feel more comfortable going to? In which store would you feel like a more proud, beautiful, empowered woman?
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