"We use healthy girls with tits"
A report from London Fashion week, in wake of the Madrid Fashion Week banning of models under a certain BMI (noted here, a couple of weeks ago).
It is interesting to note a detail I had not seen before in the Madrid stories - the author says a size 0 model actually died from malnutrition, which led directly to the Madrid ban.
It is interesting to note a detail I had not seen before in the Madrid stories - the author says a size 0 model actually died from malnutrition, which led directly to the Madrid ban.
posted by anne at 10:15 PM
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Is the average woman's size in Britain really a 16 (US 12)?
Maybe it is. But it comes as a surprise to me. I wonder if it's official, or just from the department of made-up statistics?
I'd also like to know what the average size for teenagers is, out of interest. If you're a bigger teenager, it can seem as though everyone else in the world is a size ten... but what's the reality?
US size 12 sounds about right for an average size, going by what I remember seeing when I lived in the UK, maybe a little bigger?
A lot of these averages are taken from self reporting small samples, like online surveys, so they're REALLY unrealistic. Some of them also go by clothes sales, which is also unreliable, since women of a closer to average size may well purchase more clothes (easier to find stuff that flatters), and many people habitually buy the "wrong" size and don't get around to returning it.
Huh - so that's what sparked the whole thing off! I wonder why that fact (the model's death) was so underreported? Usually the entertainment press is all over tragic deaths of young, beautiful people.
Simple, Mary Garden, highlighting the fact underweight people kark it in search of the body beautiful, (as defined by the fashion industry), might a) take everyones mind off the obesity epidemic and b) involve some degree of culpability.
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