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not been watching it but have read your updates on here Garinda and I'm glad to hear she's still in and just to spite the judges I hope she wins and becomes very successful!!!!
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It's barmy isn't it? When you look at the Miss World beauty pageants, regardless of wheter you approve of them or not, the winners always had shape. I mean they went in in their middles and came out above and below. In the past the voluptuous woman was regarded as the more beautiful.
I didn't watch the program either but from what you've said I think it sounds like Jen has been treated very cruelly but it's possibly not the fault of Rachel Hunter or Tandy Wassername because they are just pandering to the current fashion industry ideal. Unfortunately you are probably right that even if Jen wins she probably won't get modellng jobs which is very sad. In vew of the fact that Sophie Dahl, the hope for a change of attitude, ended up conforming it's hard to hold out any hope that this will change in the forseeable future. |
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On Thursday Moorhead held a fit or wot! day. All students were off normal timetable and in place of normal lessons had various lessons about staying fit and healthy. One of the year 9 lessons was about body image and how the media portray the 'perfect body'. Students were told how the media airbrush photo's before publication and that in reality they are not a true representation of a normal healthy woman. They were shown a photo of an actress and then a front cover of a magazine with the same actress so that they could see the difference. They were also given many facts eg. three billion people do not have the figure of a super model, only eight do!
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I heard about this fit or wot day from my girls and it sounds like it was an excellent idea. Mimi and Emz have seen the pics on here and responded with disgust but it's encouraging to hear that others thought the same too.
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It all seemed to go well and was very worthwhile. It might become a regular thing because each year group had different lessons. I hope so, it was very informative with a lot of group discussion (in the lessons that I saw).
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There was quite a bit of discussing between my girls when they got back home too, comparing what the two different years had done.
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Giorgio Armani joins in the debate about size zero models in today's Daily Mail.
I have never liked thin models on the catwalk, says Giorgio Armani | the Daily Mail |
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Just indirectly watched something on TV about a bunch of girls wanting to be models - all with lovely figures and one poor girl being told she was outsize!
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supposedly Marilyn Monroe was a size 16 (UK) 12 (US) when she sang 'Happy birthday Mr President' to JFK , since then manufacturers have changed the dimensions of dress sizes for vanitys sakes
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Perhaps the fashion industry will eventually see sense when models start dropping dead on the catwalk. Just how far do they think they can push this 'ideal'?
I noticed that somebody in the comments following that news item said 'don't blame the poor girl, it's not her fault that she's thin'. No, it isn't her fault. It's the fault of the fashion industry which says that she will not work unless she loses so much weight that she makes herself ill. That is not her natural shape. |
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I agree with the comments made about dress size manufactures there should be standard measurements, i can go in one shop for jeans & be a 12, next shop a 14 & in cases a 16, plus as i said again they dont take into consideration body frame as my mum used to always wind me up with the fact i have child bearing hips means a lot of pants dont fit proper, usually going a size up to get them over my hips & needing a belt for my waist:eek:
When will they realise that there are variations aplenty natuarally body shapes & sizes!! They ban fur trading in the industry so why not promoting 3rd world look is banned - poor people in the 3rd world have not much food & would kill to have the luxuries of that, yet people in western society have it all & abuse it all for the sake of vanity:eek: i dont get it No wonder as we have seen in this thread already the contention it causes for healthy natural human beings of any size & shape. |
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Talking about dress sizes, although they don't do fashion shows they do have dressed models at trade shows, Evans make up sample sizes in sizes 12 and 14, which is a bit strange because they only start selling their ranges from a size 16 and up in their stores.
I know that for a fact because I did some consultancy work for them. Marilyn Monroe would today be considered an 'outsize', absolutely daft. |
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So Evans are implying that their clothes look better on people slimmer than the ones they are actually made for? That doesn't make sense.
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I've just looked at this article and the comments - apparently there has been more than one model dropping dead and still people can't seem to see the difference between naturally slim and healthy and this totally unnatural obsession with striving to be nothing more than skin on a stick.
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Fasinating stuff! I wonder, though if anyone could possibly advise me on the following:
Yesterday evening, I was given by a (female) member of my local pub quiz team, a key ring which also encompasses a lazer light; when the button on the side is pressed, a message is projected on the wall/ceiling, which reads: NICE T*TS. My dilema is this: should I keep this for myself, or pass it on to my 17 year old nephew, who has a sense of humour similar to mine but is in a better position to appreciate it? |
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Tealeaf I understand your post and what your trying to say..what you mean...however I can't help thinking.....I want one of them keyrings :)
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Friday sees the final of Make me a Supermodel.
Perfect model size Sweedish Marianne, who is quite a nice girl, if a bit bitchy. (Pictured top of the left attachment.) Versus 'fat' according to the judges, Jen, feisty mum of one from Wigan.(Pictured on the attachment on the right.) Come on Jen, do Wigan the pie capital of the world, and Lancashire proud. Stick two fingers up to the experts, instead of two fingers down your throat.:D |
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I hope I can remember to watch this. I really want to see if Jen has been making herself ill to lose weight like they've told her she needs to. :(
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That was in support of her not starving herself :D not in support of her decking anybody.
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It's not Friday yet!
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Poo! I was going to watch that tomorrow. You said it was on on Friday. Now hold out your hand and let me smack it! :p
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The public vote is normally on Friday, it was only by chance I saw that it was on tonight. They raved about Marianne, who is an incredibley beautiful girl, and will probably go on to be the most successful of them all because she is size zero/English size 4. She already been signed by Channel. The only compliment Jen got was that they said looked nice, like Diana Dors! Marianne was voted off first, then Jen, to the jubliation of the judges. Luke came second and surfer Albert won. |
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Diana Dors????????
She looks nothing like Diana Dors! |
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She had long hair tonight, a bit like Veronica Lake, and was dressed as a 50's vamp. (No offence to any bingo players.):D |
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Well I didn't see it tonight - seeing as how somebody told me it was on tomorrow night! :D
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Lettie keeps looking in the mirror and commenting, "Oh Gawd, just look at those bingo wings". I now understand what she was referring to. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Rindy. ;)
It's been nice to know you all. My funeral will be some time next week, when Lettie reads this post! :o :D |
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Aaaw I had a video link that was brill and it's gone AWOL now between hack and restoration. (Curse them pesky Belgians!) It showed a model arriving at a photoshoot and how the final poster was arrived at which looked absolutely nothing like her at all.
If I can find it again I'll post a link because it was worth seeing. |
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