"What If" .... A Size Related Article for us Bigger Gals

[Knox The Hatter]

What if people went up to skinny girls in the street and said "Oh, you’d be beautiful if you’d just gain weight!"

The guys at work think I'm crazy. They all ogle the 'social X-ray' that comes in, the Princeton hoi polloi blonde with the high cheekbones, and I'll say something like, "she needs another fifty pounds...she might be interesting then..."

I think it's an oversimplification to say that it started with Twiggy...pursuing this line of reasoning further, though, I can't find anything to the alternative. Looking at the other sex symbols of the era, e.g. Jayne Mansfield (a crime that her daughter never inherited her body), they all had one thing in common...a Texas sized pair of boobies and a very shapely butt. Nowadays, the Auschwitz look is considered sexy. Not for me...

 

[kis123]

What if people went up to skinny girls in the street and said "Oh, you’d be beautiful if you’d just gain weight!"

The guys at work think I'm crazy. They all ogle the 'social X-ray' that comes in, the Princeton hoi polloi blonde with the high cheekbones, and I'll say something like, "she needs another fifty pounds...she might be interesting then..."

I think it's an oversimplification to say that it started with Twiggy...pursuing this line of reasoning further, though, I can't find anything to the alternative. Looking at the other sex symbols of the era, e.g. Jayne Mansfield (a crime that her daughter never inherited her body), they all had one thing in common...a Texas sized pair of boobies and a very shapely butt. Nowadays, the Auschwitz look is considered sexy. Not for me...

Her daughter got her face and her body from waist down. Society makes these women exercise their curves away. I remember Maritska Hartigay when she first started out in acting and she had a beautiful full face and some curves (nothing liike her mother's). Now, her hips are straighter and her face has lost its fullness.

Like I said before, many of these women have beautiful curvy shapes when they start out, but Hollywood criticizes them until they starve their bodies away. Such a shame.

 

[Iishieboo]

It seems to me that people would start making cuter plus-sized clothes seeing as 60-some-odd percent of the population is "overweight"- you'd think it would be good for sales. *shrug* It is hard to find cute things in my size... ((But I LOVE plus-size stores like Torrid and Lane Bryant. )) The thing is... being less (or more, in this case) than the view of perfection can be devistating to people. Women mostly, but guys have their stresses too. I've been heavy all my life and all my life it's been tough on me.
I dispise the commercial that says: "Obeasity-don't take it lightly". HAHA! You made yet another pun about the weight of a person. *sarcasm* It really drives me insane. Some people fall under the stress. I was lucky enough to have pushed through it. It takes all kinds, in this world- Big, small, fast, slow, short, tall, and all different color and cultures. That's what makes the living so great. ^_^

Big Smiles!

 

[TicklishLurker]

It seems to me that people would start making cuter plus-sized clothes seeing as 60-some-odd percent of the population is "overweight"- you'd think it would be good for sales. *shrug* It is hard to find cute things in my size...

I've said it before, I'll say it again -

We ought to just pool our talents and resources together and start designing good clothing and shoes. We've got so many artists surely some would be willing to draw out what we like. And I'm betting some of the ladies and gentlemen here can sew. And some of us can model them.

Who better, after all? Since the people in the fashion industry don't know what the heck they're doing.

 

[Iishieboo]

I've said it before, I'll say it again -

We ought to just pool our talents and resources together and start designing good clothing and shoes. We've got so many artists surely some would be willing to draw out what we like. And I'm betting some of the ladies and gentlemen here can sew. And some of us can model them.

Who better, after all? Since the people in the fashion industry don't know what the heck they're doing.

Hehe! It would be lots of fun, I'm sure. I had an idea for a store like that-I even had a name: "Fluff Sizes". HA! It would be great if we could do that.

 

[Saeria]

I've always thought plus sized clothes were made from the most garish scraps just lying around at the time. This is why i try to stick to solids.
I have been close to average sized and have grown a little larger through the years and to be honest it really bothered me for a long time. I had a husband and a mother in law both feeding me lies about how i was simply to big to be pretty and if i'd just get back to the size i used to be i'd be alright. I started wearing clothes that were so large on me to hide it that the shoulders sagged and my waistline seemed to drift higher and higher. Not long ago i began to undertake a major change in my life and left without anything but the clothes on my back; a few friends pitched in this week to buy me a few nice things to wear. We picked out things that fit right in all the right places and even a few things that fit a little lower, or fit snugly... For the first time in close to 6 years i felt kinda purty.
I think size is all how one is ready to perceive themselves. Without those outside influences always reminding me that there was something wrong with me, I've learned to really like me, big or not. I'm ready to take on the world proudly, so like me or bite me.
I appreciate the article posted in this thread. It really goes along with the "I like me theme" this week has taken on for me.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Hehe! It would be lots of fun, I'm sure. I had an idea for a store like that-I even had a name: "Fluff Sizes". HA! It would be great if we could do that.

This would be a good place to open such a business. More overweight women per square mile here in New Jersey than anywhere else on the planet. And, I love being here!