Too Fat Size 8 Model thrown Off Tv Catwalk.

[propita]

With the models so thin, even relatviely thin for plus size clothes, I just can't get interested in buying clothes.

I figure, I don't look like that so it's likely not going to look great on me. Show it to me on someone who's closer to my size, let me see the proportions.

Why is it designers (not high fashion, regular clothes) don't change the design a bit for shorter women--or really for shorter heavy women. Many heavy women have some weight on their arms. Why are seemingly all the blouses little cap sleeves or sleeveless? I know I need to lose weight, but I'd like to look decent.

 

[Brent]

Weight depends on the person. For example, Salma Hayek looks perfect at her weight but if Rachel Bilson matched that weight she wouldn't look nearly as good.

Precisely, what is beautiful on one women is not necessarily beautiful on another, everyone wears their weight differently, the goal is to be a healthy weight for your individual structure

 

[Brent]

With the models so thin, even relatviely thin for plus size clothes, I just can't get interested in buying clothes.

I figure, I don't look like that so it's likely not going to look great on me. Show it to me on someone who's closer to my size, let me see the proportions.

Why is it designers (not high fashion, regular clothes) don't change the design a bit for shorter women--or really for shorter heavy women. Many heavy women have some weight on their arms. Why are seemingly all the blouses little cap sleeves or sleeveless? I know I need to lose weight, but I'd like to look decent.

This is also a problem for overweight men like me, I want to dress nice, I'd love to shop at Abercrombie and stores like that, but they just don't make clothes my size, which sucks. They really need to reach out and make designer clothes appropriate for all sizes.

 

[Kestra]

Couple of comments:

It was stupid of them to do that on a tv show, but I get what some people have said about why models have the bodies they do. I think it's unhealthy in general and that lifestyle comes along with many other unhealthy things, but I suppose that's their choice.

I don't think it's the fashion models going down the catwalk that are a problem as much as the people who are supposed to be easier to relate to, like characters we see on tv and in movies. They're actors and actresses that need to look good but we're supposed to feel they're average when they're playing a role. I don't know if that makes sense.

Personally, my greatest insecurities have arisen not so much from the media but from RL people around me.

As far as designing certain clothes for all shapes and sizes, it will simply never happen. When a designer creates something, they're going for a certain look. If you change the size too much in any direction, it's not going to have the same look.

I'm not saying there shouldn't be a nice range of options for people of all sizes, just that you can't expect the same clothes for all. I do think there's a nicer range and more options these days, though.

 

[Pingfah]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/7927296/too-fat-size-8-model-thrown-off-tv-catwalk

I wish this type of thing would stop.
There is a tv show in Australia which trys to find the next model and you get a model contract and other things to go with it.
Well l think it is sad that this sort of thing is going on.
We have teen agers battling with weight and wanting to look like there role model.
This girl was size 8.
I would like to see what you think of this

Are you sponsored by 9 News or something?

 

[nevermore]

I think the lesson is, don't try to "fit in", or at least don't try to be something someone else wants you to be, be yourself and be happy with what you look like and make the best out of what you have been given.

100% true. Unless you're wanting to be a fashion model, in which case you have chosen to put yourself up to be judged on certain criteria including size. I' for instance, can wear a size 0, however, i could never be a model because I'm too 5'2".

With the models so thin, even relatviely thin for plus size clothes, I just can't get interested in buying clothes.

I figure, I don't look like that so it's likely not going to look great on me. Show it to me on someone who's closer to my size, let me see the proportions.

Why is it designers (not high fashion, regular clothes) don't change the design a bit for shorter women--or really for shorter heavy women. Many heavy women have some weight on their arms. Why are seemingly all the blouses little cap sleeves or sleeveless? I know I need to lose weight, but I'd like to look decent.

This is also a problem for overweight men like me, I want to dress nice, I'd love to shop at Abercrombie and stores like that, but they just don't make clothes my size, which sucks. They really need to reach out and make designer clothes appropriate for all sizes.

Eh, vanity sizing at places like Abercrombie (and everywhere else) makes it mostly impossible for small people to find clothes too. What passes for an extra-small used to be a medium, limiting me to shit holes like H&M that still use more European sizing. It cuts both ways. Or all ways, unless you're 5'6" 120.

What really pisses me off is stores that sell smaller or petite sized clothes, but only do so online.

 

[auntiehill]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/7927296/too-fat-size-8-model-thrown-off-tv-catwalk

I wish this type of thing would stop.
There is a tv show in Australia which trys to find the next model and you get a model contract and other things to go with it.
Well l think it is sad that this sort of thing is going on.
We have teen agers battling with weight and wanting to look like there role model.
This girl was size 8.
I would like to see what you think of this

Are you sponsored by 9 News or something?

I was wondering the same thing. Instead of starting a thread on every article you read, how about just responding to threads that are already here?

 

[sidious618]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/7927296/too-fat-size-8-model-thrown-off-tv-catwalk

I wish this type of thing would stop.
There is a tv show in Australia which trys to find the next model and you get a model contract and other things to go with it.
Well l think it is sad that this sort of thing is going on.
We have teen agers battling with weight and wanting to look like there role model.
This girl was size 8.
I would like to see what you think of this

Are you sponsored by 9 News or something?

I was wondering about that too smiles

 

[JiNX-01]

Let me begin by saying !

That girl is lovely and what those did to her will have repercussions beyond a shallow judgment on a crap "reality" show not necessarily for her but for the young girls who fear rejection for not being skinny (which they read as "beautiful".)

 

[iguana_tonante]

I' for instance, can wear a size 0, however, i could never be a model because I'm too 5'2".

Heh. I feel your pain. I'm reasonably fit, but since I'm only 5'3", finding man's clothes that fit me well is sometimes an impossible task.

Are you sponsored by 9 News or something?

I was wondering about that too smiles

 

[nevermore]

I' for instance, can wear a size 0, however, i could never be a model because I'm too 5'2".

Heh. I feel your pain. I'm reasonably fit, but since I'm only 5'3", finding man's clothes that fit me well is sometimes an impossible task.

My dad is the same. He has to shop at special stores for pants, and even then he has to have everything hemmed. I still think that one of the reasons he married my mother was that, as a clothing designer, she had a whole cadre of seamstresses at her disposal.

 

[kimc]

There's actually a good utilitarian reason why fashion models look the way they do. They are essentially meant to be walking hangars and being thin they don't disrupt the flow of the clothing they are wearing too much. Probably the "ideal" of beauty in our culture, rather than fashion models, is the Playboy Playmate, but you'll never see them modeling on the catwalk simply because they are too curvy to show off the clothes the way the designer wants. Being too heavy to model is not a commentary on any standard of beauty in our culture it is just a necessary tool for the job.

Also, a woman who is too curvy is going to distract attention away from the clothing which isn't what any designer wants.

To me that's backwards thinking though. If you want women to buy your clothing then you should model them on all body types so so those watching can envision themselves wearing what you designed. Morons.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

This is also a problem for overweight men like me, I want to dress nice, I'd love to shop at Abercrombie and stores like that, but they just don't make clothes my size, which sucks.

I have the same problem with baseball caps. No matter which ballpark I go to, I cannot buy a cap, because the biggest size they sell is 8, and that won't fit. My head is too big!

 

[iguana_tonante]

My dad is the same. He has to shop at special stores for pants, and even then he has to have everything hemmed. I still think that one of the reasons he married my mother was that, as a clothing designer, she had a whole cadre of seamstresses at her disposal.

Well, luckily I live in Italy, where the average height is lower, so I can find some nice clothes sometimes even at my size. If I lived in the US, I would probably shop at the kids' section, and have all my shirts with Mickey Mouse stickers.

 

[Aragorn]

I did a search to see who she was, and this is what I found on a forum about the show in question:

Im unsure on her tbh. Her neck looks really thick which puts me of..

She's got a chubby face and a stumpy body to match. no.

She looks short and plus sized. Ewww..

On first impression, I was like ,"Why was she even casted?"

Please, let her be the first to go.

And I have to wonder how many of these posters are girls.

 

[Hermiod]

^If I saw those comments not knowing where they came from, I would say these comments are from a YouTube video of her and they'd all be from men. The sad truth is that while the majority of us men would rather look at Christina Hendricks than some stick thin model, there are also those amongst us who say anyone woman who has a pair of breasts and a bum is somehow "fat".

However, I'd be surprised if that many men were actually watching this show to see her.

Ultimately, the fashion industry isn't about selling clothes to men and so the kind of women we'd rather see is irrelevant.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

They should force the program off the air.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Harsh comments. Jeez... The girl looked fine to me.


Nothing wrong with a woman with some meat on her bones.

 

[Deckerd]

You put yourself up for viewing like prize cattle, you have to be prepared to take the flak for it, pure and simple. As to the 'message' of the rag trade: it's no worse than any other images children are bombarded with. If a child becomes mentally ill, the cause is generally closer to home than what they see in the media. This goes for all obsessive behaviour.

 

[Rii]

I think the lesson is [...] don't try to be something someone else wants you to be

in reality, guys don't really like really skinny women, a lot of guys actually prefer women to have a little meat on em!

Interesting juxtaposition there.