And basically follow a more realistic model of woman (and man) for the clothes?
For two reasons I ask:
1) models + anorexia. I don't think that needs any more explanation?
2) my butt
Plain and simple, I have been fitting like a madwoman yesterday and in order to find a model that did NOT make me look like "WHOA, look here biiig momma" I had to go to the MEN'S section, of all places.
The models of pants are way wrong these days, in my humble opinion.
So.. it is not just the "high" fashion thing here, but also the plain jane fashion. What do you think?
i think the clothing industry needs to make a lot of changes, and that particular thing especially.
first, i think sizes are way off, whether going up in number or down. nothing is ever what it says. i think that there should be a universal size: for example, a size 10 should be a size 10, regardless of what country it is manufactured in. i also think they need to quit vanity sizing: i find a lot of things that should fit me, according to the label, but they swim on me. for example, many shirts, that are supposed to be my size, have shoulder seams hitting my upper arms! pants legs are either too short or too long in relation to the rest of the garment. i think i'm of average height (5'6").
i even run into this problem when buying shoes. sometimes shoes that are in my size are too big and i have to size down. other times, they're so tight, there's no way it could possibly be my size regardless of what the tag says.
between the trends for styles, for colors and bizarre sizing, i've come to loathe clothes shopping.
and the models! i think that the houses design things to look good on the models in order to push the trends (if you don't start a trend, people don't need to buy clothes as often). the problem is that they want women to buy things that are designed to look good on an either near-skeletal frame or the frame of twelve year old girls that aren't fully developed. women buy this stuff, wonder why it doesn't look quite as good in real life and then the women start fretting over their own bodies.
the designers got what they wanted: women's money. the women got: lowered self-esteem and a closet full of clothing that they think they'd like, if only their hips were smaller, their waste were tinier or their legs were longer. it's a sad state of affairs, i say.