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I have a theory about supermodels. They're not skinny because of male oppression, they're skinny because of good old fashioned economics.
You see, the fashion designers have to sell stuff, and the place most women see clothes first is on a coathanger in a shop. Whether it be conscious or not, the designers have to design clothes that look good on a coathanger. BUT, they also have to design clothes that will look good on the runway.
The solution to this little dilemma is to pick models who look most like coathangers. Spindly tiny women with no chests, so the fabric can just hang from their shoulders, just as it does on a coathanger.
Clothes which look good on a normal woman will probably not look so good on a coathanger, so will get bought less (Unless you try on everything in the store - and there's the solution to another of life's little mysteries). So economically, those designers who design for the coathanger (And therefore the anorexic models) will be favoured. And because the clothes look best on that body type, that's who dominates in all forms of media.
The solution is simple. I suggest a new kind of coathanger, which more accurately reflects the way the clothes will look on the bodies of normal women (I was thinking of names, and came up with the bloathanger, but I should probably avoid mentioning that if I don't want to get lynched). Once the new coathanger comes into wide service, the designers will have to adapt their designs, and consequently, will have to hire normal women to do their modeling.
With normal women in the fashion magazines, standards of beauty will gradually change to be more realistic, and the world will be saved.
No, it's okay, no need to thank me.
I have a theory about supermodels. They're not skinny because of male oppression, they're skinny because of good old fashioned economics.
You see, the fashion designers have to sell stuff, and the place most women see clothes first is on a coathanger in a shop. Whether it be conscious or not, the designers have to design clothes that look good on a coathanger. BUT, they also have to design clothes that will look good on the runway.
The solution to this little dilemma is to pick models who look most like coathangers. Spindly tiny women with no chests, so the fabric can just hang from their shoulders, just as it does on a coathanger.
Clothes which look good on a normal woman will probably not look so good on a coathanger, so will get bought less (Unless you try on everything in the store - and there's the solution to another of life's little mysteries). So economically, those designers who design for the coathanger (And therefore the anorexic models) will be favoured. And because the clothes look best on that body type, that's who dominates in all forms of media.
The solution is simple. I suggest a new kind of coathanger, which more accurately reflects the way the clothes will look on the bodies of normal women (I was thinking of names, and came up with the bloathanger, but I should probably avoid mentioning that if I don't want to get lynched). Once the new coathanger comes into wide service, the designers will have to adapt their designs, and consequently, will have to hire normal women to do their modeling.
With normal women in the fashion magazines, standards of beauty will gradually change to be more realistic, and the world will be saved.
No, it's okay, no need to thank me.
posted by Narcisista at 9/02/2004 05:59:00 da tarde
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