Nicole RitchieToday’s Independent reports that the "size 0" look favoured by Hollywood stars(?) such as Nicole Ritchie and Lindsay Lohan is beginning catching on with girls in Britain,.
Size 0 equates to a UK size 4 and is now cropping up on the UK high street. If it caches on it would herald a major shift in beauty ideals from the "perfect 10" that used to represent the ideal female shape in Britain to by the tiny LA look. There is some evidence for this shit: Victoria Beckham, a mother of three, was recently reported to have worn jeans that would fit a seven-year-old.
Victoria BeckhamThe former Cosmopolitan editor Marcelle D'Argy Smith said the size 0 craze represented the "death of the grown-up woman". She believes that those who portray size 0 as a "normal" body shape are perpetuating a cult of thinness. "What is so bizarre about all this is that they are being praised for their bodies. Who is defining these bodies? Some gay men in the fashion industry who want to hang their clothes on stick insects," she said.
Karen Fenn, buying director for Topshop, said that its size 4 was intended for girls aged between 12 and 14. Only 2 per cent of sales in the Petite range were size 4. Ms Fenn said: "It's for a small and young customer. It's not something that is by any means for a grown woman."
Women come in all shapes and sizes, some will be waif-like and will be able to fit such a size but most will most certainly not. For me it beggars belief that anyone would consider the figure of a young teenage girl to be the ideal shape for an adult woman. The only people I can think of that have a penchant for the young teen look normally get hounded out of their homes and spend their prison sentences in isolation!
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i think americans, in particular, have a fascination with not growing up. there is the focus on youth- the whole culture is the culture of youth. our teenage girls all look the same these days- thin, long straight hair, tight fitted clothes. to pull that off- you have to be thin- you can't eat. to stay young and look trendy- you have to stay thin. i find it paradoxical that this is the image of 'normal' when most of us are overweight or obese in this country. neither extreme is healthy and i long for the day when people can just be who they are.
I still think it is an unhealthy aspiration for most women, mullets. It beats me why fashion is trying to dictate that women should look like twigs when most do not have that sort of figure.
It does seem paradoxical betmo when there is such obesity in the US (and here in the UK too). Supersize and no size together, both causing ill health. viva the happy medium!
Gary Glitter: The new high style fashion couture line for the waifish size 0 in you!
Slouch boots with booty shorts? SHAME ON YOU POSH SPICE!
Perhaps he can go into partnership with Roman Polanski! As for VB's clothing taste, I think all of her taste is in her mouth...
I must say that they look much too fat, sorry...
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Too fat for what?
Ah Peteris, better Nicole and Posh aspire to getting back to their birth weights???
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