So I spent the last 2 days binging on junk food because I was feeling crappy. Its kind of a vicious cycle that way, hmm. Anyway no more junk food. Drinking lots of water today, gonna go 10 km on my bike and make up for all that crap. Just in time for the weekend when I'm gonna drink my problems away! Hahaha I have awesome coping skills, FYI.
Anyway, I just saw this thing and was like wow, that pisses me off. And then I thought OH WAIT I have a blog now, score! I can rant to the world wide web instead of waiting for my best friend to call on her way home from work. So this thing that I saw, it was an article on MSN today, the Canadian version. And it was called Sexy styles for any shape, or something to that effect. Hang on, I'll go find a link. Aha, it was called Sexy Style at Any Size. here's the link: HERE. (My first hyper link, squee)
I'm pissed off about this article because you will notice if you actually click on my shiny new hyper link up there that while the article is supposedly fashion tips for every size every single model is slim. Is it too much to ask that when a magazine, website, catalogue et.al. is touting a line of clothes for plus sized women that we could actually see those clothes modelled on ...wait for it.. PLUS SIZED WOMEN??
All I could think while I was looking through that article was, those clothes will never look that good on me. Mostly, because I'm not a size 6. Which I'm not whining about it or whatever, I am working on making my body something that is acceptable to me. But still, in the mean time I want to look nice. Pretty, occasionally even sexy. Its bad enough that most of the "pretty" clothes aren't even made in bigger sizes, I mean there are whole stores in the mall that I can't shop in because an XL is a size 8. When there are clothes available in our size I would like to see some bigger girls modelling said clothes. Not only so I can get a realistic idea of what I might look like in that outfit, but come on, its just irritating. Its like the fashion industry will acknowledge that plus sized people exist but they won't go so far as to actually be seen with them.
I could go on about this all day, its really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to our twisted western culture of thinness. But its been done to death, and it'll just make me mad. The point of this blog is to rant until I feel better and so far mission accomplished! Until next time blog peeps. :)
I so much love that you squeed. :) I always hated the fact that in store magazines or flyers they have plus sized clothes on tiny models. It just doesn't compute. I don't understand in the first place why they use stick thin with no boobs models for fashion in the first place. Nobody looks like that unless they're seriously sick, so the general public can't really see what the clothes look like on a human body.
ReplyDeleteYay, media, for giving us shit like this: http://www.today.com/id/33307721/site/todayshow/ns/today-style/t/size-model-i-was-fired-being-too-fat/#.USGRZI6STEM