http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/ Fashion Industry News, Designers, Runway Shows, Style Advice Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:58:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-8847 Miranda Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:33:12 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-8847 I'm amazed that they have a size 20 model. Jean Paul Gaultier used a sized 28 model in his 2006 Paris Fashion Show. Velvet D'Amour made an incredible stir during that time. Its understandable that noone condones 'fat' modelling. It is just as unhealthy as 'skinny' modelling. But, after years upon years of seeing the skinny side of things, like Twiggy, Kate Moss, Heidi Klum, etc. It is nice to see the opposite end of the spectrum. It's nice to see the media showing a difference for once. It's incredibly refreshing, actually, to see a different body. A different Look. In time, Hopefully with the clash of the size 20's and the size 0's, the size 10's will be represented soon, but how can they be represented unless they represent the opposite side? Right now, its a case of extremes. And we should all be thankful for that because it means that a median is coming. I’m amazed that they have a size 20 model. Jean Paul Gaultier used a sized 28 model in his 2006 Paris Fashion Show. Velvet D’Amour made an incredible stir during that time.
Its understandable that noone condones ‘fat’ modelling. It is just as unhealthy as ‘skinny’ modelling.
But, after years upon years of seeing the skinny side of things, like Twiggy, Kate Moss, Heidi Klum, etc. It is nice to see the opposite end of the spectrum. It’s nice to see the media showing a difference for once. It’s incredibly refreshing, actually, to see a different body. A different Look.
In time, Hopefully with the clash of the size 20′s and the size 0′s, the size 10′s will be represented soon, but how can they be represented unless they represent the opposite side?
Right now, its a case of extremes. And we should all be thankful for that because it means that a median is coming.

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-117664 Miranda Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:33:00 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-117664 I'm amazed that they have a size 20 model. Jean Paul Gaultier used a sized 28 model in his 2006 Paris Fashion Show. Velvet D'Amour made an incredible stir during that time. Its understandable that noone condones 'fat' modelling. It is just as unhealthy as 'skinny' modelling. But, after years upon years of seeing the skinny side of things, like Twiggy, Kate Moss, Heidi Klum, etc. It is nice to see the opposite end of the spectrum. It's nice to see the media showing a difference for once. It's incredibly refreshing, actually, to see a different body. A different Look. In time, Hopefully with the clash of the size 20's and the size 0's, the size 10's will be represented soon, but how can they be represented unless they represent the opposite side? Right now, its a case of extremes. And we should all be thankful for that because it means that a median is coming. I’m amazed that they have a size 20 model. Jean Paul Gaultier used a sized 28 model in his 2006 Paris Fashion Show. Velvet D’Amour made an incredible stir during that time.
Its understandable that noone condones ‘fat’ modelling. It is just as unhealthy as ‘skinny’ modelling.
But, after years upon years of seeing the skinny side of things, like Twiggy, Kate Moss, Heidi Klum, etc. It is nice to see the opposite end of the spectrum. It’s nice to see the media showing a difference for once. It’s incredibly refreshing, actually, to see a different body. A different Look.
In time, Hopefully with the clash of the size 20′s and the size 0′s, the size 10′s will be represented soon, but how can they be represented unless they represent the opposite side?
Right now, its a case of extremes. And we should all be thankful for that because it means that a median is coming.

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-117666 Miranda Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:33:00 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-117666 I'm amazed that they have a size 20 model. Jean Paul Gaultier used a sized 28 model in his 2006 Paris Fashion Show. Velvet D'Amour made an incredible stir during that time. Its understandable that noone condones 'fat' modelling. It is just as unhealthy as 'skinny' modelling. But, after years upon years of seeing the skinny side of things, like Twiggy, Kate Moss, Heidi Klum, etc. It is nice to see the opposite end of the spectrum. It's nice to see the media showing a difference for once. It's incredibly refreshing, actually, to see a different body. A different Look. In time, Hopefully with the clash of the size 20's and the size 0's, the size 10's will be represented soon, but how can they be represented unless they represent the opposite side? Right now, its a case of extremes. And we should all be thankful for that because it means that a median is coming. I’m amazed that they have a size 20 model. Jean Paul Gaultier used a sized 28 model in his 2006 Paris Fashion Show. Velvet D’Amour made an incredible stir during that time.
Its understandable that noone condones ‘fat’ modelling. It is just as unhealthy as ‘skinny’ modelling.
But, after years upon years of seeing the skinny side of things, like Twiggy, Kate Moss, Heidi Klum, etc. It is nice to see the opposite end of the spectrum. It’s nice to see the media showing a difference for once. It’s incredibly refreshing, actually, to see a different body. A different Look.
In time, Hopefully with the clash of the size 20′s and the size 0′s, the size 10′s will be represented soon, but how can they be represented unless they represent the opposite side?
Right now, its a case of extremes. And we should all be thankful for that because it means that a median is coming.

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-8846 erin Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:45:12 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-8846 I just think that more clothes need to be out there that flatter all shapes and sizes so people don't go getting a complex over how they look. There will always be fat people. There will always be thin people. People will always base that judgment on THEIR own size, regardless what the designers do/promote/photograph. I just think if there were more cute clothes out there to flatter a range of sizes, women might be a little happier with how they themselves look and a little less mean to other women. I know I could care less if I think I am fatter or thinner than the girl in the elevator next to me if I feel like I look good! I just think that more clothes need to be out there that flatter all shapes and sizes so people don’t go getting a complex over how they look. There will always be fat people. There will always be thin people. People will always base that judgment on THEIR own size, regardless what the designers do/promote/photograph. I just think if there were more cute clothes out there to flatter a range of sizes, women might be a little happier with how they themselves look and a little less mean to other women. I know I could care less if I think I am fatter or thinner than the girl in the elevator next to me if I feel like I look good!

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-117662 erin Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:45:00 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-117662 I just think that more clothes need to be out there that flatter all shapes and sizes so people don't go getting a complex over how they look. There will always be fat people. There will always be thin people. People will always base that judgment on THEIR own size, regardless what the designers do/promote/photograph. I just think if there were more cute clothes out there to flatter a range of sizes, women might be a little happier with how they themselves look and a little less mean to other women. I know I could care less if I think I am fatter or thinner than the girl in the elevator next to me if I feel like I look good! I just think that more clothes need to be out there that flatter all shapes and sizes so people don’t go getting a complex over how they look. There will always be fat people. There will always be thin people. People will always base that judgment on THEIR own size, regardless what the designers do/promote/photograph. I just think if there were more cute clothes out there to flatter a range of sizes, women might be a little happier with how they themselves look and a little less mean to other women. I know I could care less if I think I am fatter or thinner than the girl in the elevator next to me if I feel like I look good!

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-117663 erin Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:45:00 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-117663 I just think that more clothes need to be out there that flatter all shapes and sizes so people don't go getting a complex over how they look. There will always be fat people. There will always be thin people. People will always base that judgment on THEIR own size, regardless what the designers do/promote/photograph. I just think if there were more cute clothes out there to flatter a range of sizes, women might be a little happier with how they themselves look and a little less mean to other women. I know I could care less if I think I am fatter or thinner than the girl in the elevator next to me if I feel like I look good! I just think that more clothes need to be out there that flatter all shapes and sizes so people don’t go getting a complex over how they look. There will always be fat people. There will always be thin people. People will always base that judgment on THEIR own size, regardless what the designers do/promote/photograph. I just think if there were more cute clothes out there to flatter a range of sizes, women might be a little happier with how they themselves look and a little less mean to other women. I know I could care less if I think I am fatter or thinner than the girl in the elevator next to me if I feel like I look good!

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-8845 murf Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:26:31 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-8845 Realgirl said that Americans are 7-10 lbs heavier now than in the 70s--and I understand that this is an average (personally, I'm 90 lbs heavier :( ), but I can remember growing up in the 50s and 60s that fat people were fairly uncommon and fat kids were rare, very rare, and it was almost always a thyroid or similar problem. We ate normal food, balanced, and at least in my house, we did not have bread, dessert or soft drinks with every dinner...those were sometimes treats. Our food is in the main, no longer natural and filled with chemicals and very few people know how to balance meals. Couple that with total lack of exercise--my g-daughter has never had a gym class since elementary school, where we had to have PE every year in school--and you end up with obese, unhealthy people While I think people should not be judged solely on their size, I must agree with Jess and a couple of others, obese women are not "curvy." Jane Russell was "curvy." Obesity is not a normal state for the human race, no more so than is being too thin. I think it's great that a designer can have the insight to say, "See, this is beauty, too." Nonetheless, he should have several models, not just one, to represent a range of humanity. Just taking one rock star, regardless of her size, is a publicity cop on his part that I personally find disgusting. I have just as many issues with "plus-size" models as I do with the concentration-camp-look ones. The skinny models have to starve and drug up to stay that way, the plussers have to overeat to stay that way, or at the very least not achieve optimal health, and both present an unrealistic figure that does not translate to anything I can wear (or could wear even when I was a mere 115 pounds because at 115 lbs I had curves--and yes, at 5'5" 115 is THIN!) The women who are 12/14s or 14/16s who run and all, I'd be willing to bet your overall bodyfat is not that high, you're just large-bodied--my daughter is a 12/14 at 5'10" and is not fat, runs and eats right and is very healthy One final note of interest. I'm not exactly sure when it happened, but sometime in the last ten years, they re-numbered all the sizes, so that what was a 10 when I was 20, is now a size 6; a 12 is now a 16, etc. Realgirl said that Americans are 7-10 lbs heavier now than in the 70s–and I understand that this is an average (personally, I’m 90 lbs heavier :( ), but I can remember growing up in the 50s and 60s that fat people were fairly uncommon and fat kids were rare, very rare, and it was almost always a thyroid or similar problem. We ate normal food, balanced, and at least in my house, we did not have bread, dessert or soft drinks with every dinner…those were sometimes treats.
Our food is in the main, no longer natural and filled with chemicals and very few people know how to balance meals. Couple that with total lack of exercise–my g-daughter has never had a gym class since elementary school, where we had to have PE every year in school–and you end up with obese, unhealthy people
While I think people should not be judged solely on their size, I must agree with Jess and a couple of others, obese women are not “curvy.” Jane Russell was “curvy.” Obesity is not a normal state for the human race, no more so than is being too thin. I think it’s great that a designer can have the insight to say, “See, this is beauty, too.” Nonetheless, he should have several models, not just one, to represent a range of humanity. Just taking one rock star, regardless of her size, is a publicity cop on his part that I personally find disgusting.
I have just as many issues with “plus-size” models as I do with the concentration-camp-look ones. The skinny models have to starve and drug up to stay that way, the plussers have to overeat to stay that way, or at the very least not achieve optimal health, and both present an unrealistic figure that does not translate to anything I can wear (or could wear even when I was a mere 115 pounds because at 115 lbs I had curves–and yes, at 5’5″ 115 is THIN!)
The women who are 12/14s or 14/16s who run and all, I’d be willing to bet your overall bodyfat is not that high, you’re just large-bodied–my daughter is a 12/14 at 5’10″ and is not fat, runs and eats right and is very healthy
One final note of interest. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but sometime in the last ten years, they re-numbered all the sizes, so that what was a 10 when I was 20, is now a size 6; a 12 is now a 16, etc.

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-117660 murf Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:26:00 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-117660 Realgirl said that Americans are 7-10 lbs heavier now than in the 70s--and I understand that this is an average (personally, I'm 90 lbs heavier :( ), but I can remember growing up in the 50s and 60s that fat people were fairly uncommon and fat kids were rare, very rare, and it was almost always a thyroid or similar problem. We ate normal food, balanced, and at least in my house, we did not have bread, dessert or soft drinks with every dinner...those were sometimes treats. Our food is in the main, no longer natural and filled with chemicals and very few people know how to balance meals. Couple that with total lack of exercise--my g-daughter has never had a gym class since elementary school, where we had to have PE every year in school--and you end up with obese, unhealthy people While I think people should not be judged solely on their size, I must agree with Jess and a couple of others, obese women are not "curvy." Jane Russell was "curvy." Obesity is not a normal state for the human race, no more so than is being too thin. I think it's great that a designer can have the insight to say, "See, this is beauty, too." Nonetheless, he should have several models, not just one, to represent a range of humanity. Just taking one rock star, regardless of her size, is a publicity cop on his part that I personally find disgusting. I have just as many issues with "plus-size" models as I do with the concentration-camp-look ones. The skinny models have to starve and drug up to stay that way, the plussers have to overeat to stay that way, or at the very least not achieve optimal health, and both present an unrealistic figure that does not translate to anything I can wear (or could wear even when I was a mere 115 pounds because at 115 lbs I had curves--and yes, at 5'5" 115 is THIN!) The women who are 12/14s or 14/16s who run and all, I'd be willing to bet your overall bodyfat is not that high, you're just large-bodied--my daughter is a 12/14 at 5'10" and is not fat, runs and eats right and is very healthy One final note of interest. I'm not exactly sure when it happened, but sometime in the last ten years, they re-numbered all the sizes, so that what was a 10 when I was 20, is now a size 6; a 12 is now a 16, etc. Realgirl said that Americans are 7-10 lbs heavier now than in the 70s–and I understand that this is an average (personally, I’m 90 lbs heavier :( ), but I can remember growing up in the 50s and 60s that fat people were fairly uncommon and fat kids were rare, very rare, and it was almost always a thyroid or similar problem. We ate normal food, balanced, and at least in my house, we did not have bread, dessert or soft drinks with every dinner…those were sometimes treats.
Our food is in the main, no longer natural and filled with chemicals and very few people know how to balance meals. Couple that with total lack of exercise–my g-daughter has never had a gym class since elementary school, where we had to have PE every year in school–and you end up with obese, unhealthy people
While I think people should not be judged solely on their size, I must agree with Jess and a couple of others, obese women are not “curvy.” Jane Russell was “curvy.” Obesity is not a normal state for the human race, no more so than is being too thin. I think it’s great that a designer can have the insight to say, “See, this is beauty, too.” Nonetheless, he should have several models, not just one, to represent a range of humanity. Just taking one rock star, regardless of her size, is a publicity cop on his part that I personally find disgusting.
I have just as many issues with “plus-size” models as I do with the concentration-camp-look ones. The skinny models have to starve and drug up to stay that way, the plussers have to overeat to stay that way, or at the very least not achieve optimal health, and both present an unrealistic figure that does not translate to anything I can wear (or could wear even when I was a mere 115 pounds because at 115 lbs I had curves–and yes, at 5’5″ 115 is THIN!)
The women who are 12/14s or 14/16s who run and all, I’d be willing to bet your overall bodyfat is not that high, you’re just large-bodied–my daughter is a 12/14 at 5’10″ and is not fat, runs and eats right and is very healthy
One final note of interest. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but sometime in the last ten years, they re-numbered all the sizes, so that what was a 10 when I was 20, is now a size 6; a 12 is now a 16, etc.

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-117661 murf Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:26:00 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-117661 Realgirl said that Americans are 7-10 lbs heavier now than in the 70s--and I understand that this is an average (personally, I'm 90 lbs heavier :( ), but I can remember growing up in the 50s and 60s that fat people were fairly uncommon and fat kids were rare, very rare, and it was almost always a thyroid or similar problem. We ate normal food, balanced, and at least in my house, we did not have bread, dessert or soft drinks with every dinner...those were sometimes treats. Our food is in the main, no longer natural and filled with chemicals and very few people know how to balance meals. Couple that with total lack of exercise--my g-daughter has never had a gym class since elementary school, where we had to have PE every year in school--and you end up with obese, unhealthy people While I think people should not be judged solely on their size, I must agree with Jess and a couple of others, obese women are not "curvy." Jane Russell was "curvy." Obesity is not a normal state for the human race, no more so than is being too thin. I think it's great that a designer can have the insight to say, "See, this is beauty, too." Nonetheless, he should have several models, not just one, to represent a range of humanity. Just taking one rock star, regardless of her size, is a publicity cop on his part that I personally find disgusting. I have just as many issues with "plus-size" models as I do with the concentration-camp-look ones. The skinny models have to starve and drug up to stay that way, the plussers have to overeat to stay that way, or at the very least not achieve optimal health, and both present an unrealistic figure that does not translate to anything I can wear (or could wear even when I was a mere 115 pounds because at 115 lbs I had curves--and yes, at 5'5" 115 is THIN!) The women who are 12/14s or 14/16s who run and all, I'd be willing to bet your overall bodyfat is not that high, you're just large-bodied--my daughter is a 12/14 at 5'10" and is not fat, runs and eats right and is very healthy One final note of interest. I'm not exactly sure when it happened, but sometime in the last ten years, they re-numbered all the sizes, so that what was a 10 when I was 20, is now a size 6; a 12 is now a 16, etc. Realgirl said that Americans are 7-10 lbs heavier now than in the 70s–and I understand that this is an average (personally, I’m 90 lbs heavier :( ), but I can remember growing up in the 50s and 60s that fat people were fairly uncommon and fat kids were rare, very rare, and it was almost always a thyroid or similar problem. We ate normal food, balanced, and at least in my house, we did not have bread, dessert or soft drinks with every dinner…those were sometimes treats.
Our food is in the main, no longer natural and filled with chemicals and very few people know how to balance meals. Couple that with total lack of exercise–my g-daughter has never had a gym class since elementary school, where we had to have PE every year in school–and you end up with obese, unhealthy people
While I think people should not be judged solely on their size, I must agree with Jess and a couple of others, obese women are not “curvy.” Jane Russell was “curvy.” Obesity is not a normal state for the human race, no more so than is being too thin. I think it’s great that a designer can have the insight to say, “See, this is beauty, too.” Nonetheless, he should have several models, not just one, to represent a range of humanity. Just taking one rock star, regardless of her size, is a publicity cop on his part that I personally find disgusting.
I have just as many issues with “plus-size” models as I do with the concentration-camp-look ones. The skinny models have to starve and drug up to stay that way, the plussers have to overeat to stay that way, or at the very least not achieve optimal health, and both present an unrealistic figure that does not translate to anything I can wear (or could wear even when I was a mere 115 pounds because at 115 lbs I had curves–and yes, at 5’5″ 115 is THIN!)
The women who are 12/14s or 14/16s who run and all, I’d be willing to bet your overall bodyfat is not that high, you’re just large-bodied–my daughter is a 12/14 at 5’10″ and is not fat, runs and eats right and is very healthy
One final note of interest. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but sometime in the last ten years, they re-numbered all the sizes, so that what was a 10 when I was 20, is now a size 6; a 12 is now a 16, etc.

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-8844 marang Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:34:52 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-8844 Uhm, anyone who thinks Beyonce's waist is not cinched in with very good foundation garment is woefully naive. I think. Uhm, anyone who thinks Beyonce’s waist is not cinched in with very good foundation garment is woefully naive.
I think.

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-117658 marang Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:34:00 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-117658 Uhm, anyone who thinks Beyonce's waist is not cinched in with very good foundation garment is woefully naive. I think. Uhm, anyone who thinks Beyonce’s waist is not cinched in with very good foundation garment is woefully naive.
I think.

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-117659 marang Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:34:00 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-117659 Uhm, anyone who thinks Beyonce's waist is not cinched in with very good foundation garment is woefully naive. I think. Uhm, anyone who thinks Beyonce’s waist is not cinched in with very good foundation garment is woefully naive.
I think.

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-8843 RaShawn Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:36:45 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-8843 Jess, Stop quoting MeMe Roth...That woman is a complete moron. Jess,
Stop quoting MeMe Roth…That woman is a complete moron.

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-117656 RaShawn Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:36:00 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-117656 Jess, Stop quoting MeMe Roth...That woman is a complete moron. Jess,
Stop quoting MeMe Roth…That woman is a complete moron.

]]> http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/comment-page-3/#comment-117657 RaShawn Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:36:00 +0000 http://fashionista.com/2007/06/ditto-for-me/#comment-117657 Jess, Stop quoting MeMe Roth...That woman is a complete moron. Jess,
Stop quoting MeMe Roth…That woman is a complete moron.

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