I am not crazy about the title but CNN.com is featuring an article on plus size models. Last week Sarah and I talked about a fashion spread in V magazine featuring plus size models… now CNN has picked up the same story and is expounding on it. There is a plus size (or as I like to call it – average) buzz in the fashion industry but some people believe it is just a fad and that it will be gone again in no time. I, for one, would like to see it stick around. We spend a lot of time telling people that beauty is not wrapped up in being thin and glamorous but then HELLO…you pick up a magazine and that is all you see. I understand that designers want to showcase their clothes on the body they feel makes the clothes look the best BUT what I can’t get past is that there are way more of us (plus size) than there are of them. Plus size models are size 10 and up! I would sell a kidney to be a size 10 again. AND to be honest…I don’t want to be smaller than that. It doesn’t suit my frame. At a size 10 … I look freaking awesome. I am working on it… 
Here are a couple of things to keep in mind…
- The average American woman is 5’4″, weighs 160 lbs, and wears a size 14 dress.
- One-third of all American women wear a size 16 or larger.
To read more check out the article at CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/01/14/plus.size.models/index.html
Tags: cnn.com, plus size, plus size models, size 14, size 16
I cannot even BEGIN to describe the ire that filled LOFT’s employee base when we had training to explain that the jeans had been redesigned to take away extra give in the hips and thighs, and that they now only carried skinny, boyfriend, and slim cuts. They were still carrying curvy, but they had a size 0 model wearing them.
Not a single woman that worked there could wear ANY of those styles of jeans. We tried. I wish the fashion industry would be more accomodating.