Replies to '12/12 Convince Me!'

 I was very frustrated with the views of Drew.  To say that runway models are moving hangers for the sale of the clothing says that the only women who should be buying the clothing are women who fit the "0" size profile.  If these companies really wanted to sell their clothing to the general public, then the clothing would be made to fit the average size woman.  While there may be a few women that are naturally thin, their are a larger portion that only aspire to be thin. 

I am a 5'1" woman who could not ever possibly wear a single thing featured on runways.  And most of the women I know could never wear the clothing either.  Does that make us unattractive women because we don't fit the model image?  That is what the industry would have us believe.  We are not "In" because we aren't up with the latest fashions.  It's not that we don't pay attention to the latest fashions.  They are just completely unattainable to us.  Designers don't make their money on a moving hanger.  They make their money on the sale of what's on the moving hanger.  Which in turn pushes women to want to look like the moving hanger in order to fit into the clothing.  Drew uses painters as an example.  Painters create one masterpiece.  They don't market mass production.  And I've never known a single person to starve themselves because they like a painting. 

And it doesn't stop with the designers.  It's the models themselves.  ie.  There is a girl that hangs out in my group of friends.  She is an aspiring model.  She is one of the lucky few that is naturally thin.  According to her, I am fat.  I have three children and am pregnant with my fourth.  Before becoming pregnant this time, I was 128lbs. at 5'1".  I believe that I looked fine.  But this girl didn't stop at picking on me...she also tells me that my 2 year old is fat.  If a 2 year old can be called fat by some skewed standards of what a 2 year old should look like, what kind of future does she have?  Will she be told all through girl hood that she's fat?  And they wonder where the anorexia and bulimia stems from.  I truly believe that if the fashion industry does not do something soon to alter this unattainable image of perfection, that our daughters will likely suffer, just as this generation has.