How should a model look?

[crassus]

Supposedly some companies are only using not-so-thin models. The claim is that models are needed to look like the general public, which in some places is way overweight. Now, in a way, this is good because it may stop models from conducting unhealthy acts to be thin. Then again, it somewhat promotes the act of being overweight. Which is better?

[shinningstar]

The characteristic or physical appearance of the model depends on the product they are promoting to. I think both thin and overweight models have disadvantages in other aspects. I think a chubby model looks good nowadays.

[crassus]

On a personal note, I have never gone for that look.

[bra]

There has been a lot of controversy with the clothing company Lane Bryant, now Woman Within, and the fact that they do not use models that are full figured. The clothing line is designed for full figured women and in the catalog it makes you laugh because the gals look like they are swimming in the clothes.

[crassus]

That's funny. It's almost like they are pushing the look for people that wear excessively large clothes.

[Ricardo]

I'd say make the models a healthy size, based on body fat as compared to their height. They wouldn't have to be thin or fat.

If they're role models to some people, then that way those people would theoretically strive to be a "healthy" size.

[QuietLunatic]

I have curves and am fairly heavy, but I'm healthy, which is the key to all, in my opinion. The anorexic-looking models are revolting to look at. I keep expecting them to fall over dead when I see a fashion show on TV.

[Ricardo]

Pinup models of earlier decades like the forties and fifties had some more substance to them, and they were certainly beautiful.

I wonder what caused the more recent society's obsession with being thin?

[QuietLunatic]

It might have started with the model "Twiggy" in the mid to late 1960's. Before her, women like Marilyn Monroe were the standard, and I think Marilyn wore a size 12 dress and had serious curves.

[britjojo]

Marilyn was gorgeous! And yes she was a real woman and I think that is the key.

Actually, moderation is the key like with anything else. You need to promote not what is normal, or what is unattainable, but what is healthy. And that should be the prime criteria for catwalk and fashion models-that they fall within a healthy BMI and healthy body fat percentage.

To do anything else is to either promote obesity or eating disorders and neither of those situations is acceptable.

[schatzi]

I am happy that some modelling industry here in our place had come to that idea of prohibiting all very thin models. I mean, models who are underweight compare to their height is not accepted. They are very concern for health.

[jimmys devoted]

I am a firm beleiver that models and teh pressure to be that thin are very unrealistic.
Most models look like survivors of concentration camps.
What I find hypocritical is that new show about top models.
here we have amodel that took a look at herself and decided being too thin was worng, and she bucked the system, but yet she is applying the same insanity to be extremely thin to up and comings.
Its just wrong.
I also think that designers shoudl reconsider and take a hard look at who is wearing their stuff. Real bodies on real people not cartoon characters.........

julie

[britjojo]

I am sure that designers would sell more clothes if they were actually designed with real people in mind, so that when we try them on they don't look stupid.

I also think that hypocrisy such as you speak of will really achieve nothing. What is the point of her doing the right thing by herself if she won't look out for the girls she employs in the same way?

[jimmys devoted]

Even if we look at Emme or others who are plus sized models, they ar also unrealistic. And those that are morbidly obese are often models of vulgar cards.

to perpetuate any unrealistic view is dangerous and as we have seen deadly.
I dislike hipocrits that say and do one thing for themselves and place expectatiosn on others that they yhemselves bucka against. If a girl wants to be a model we have only to expect eventual medical complications and problems for our children.

[shinningstar]

Most of models nowadays are underweight because of their diest but it does not mean that they are not physically fit. I think an overweight model is not pleasing to look at wearing a sexy attires or fashionable clothes.

[britjojo]

I would actually question the fitness of some of them, given that many are anorexic and so thin that any exercise would be more likely to lead them to a heart attack than help them out.

Too, I think that thin models such as these are VERY unattractive. There is no way that I wish to look at a model so thin that you can count her ribs from 50 yards away. The clothes never look good on them either.

Sorry, but a woman is meant to have curves. We were built to have bits that stick out, and those bits are there for a reason-to try and make ourselves overly thin is to take on the appearance of a manly figure-one without bumps. And what is sexy about a woman like that?

[mtajim]

Yes, this has been a problem, many models use drugs to get super thin, this has really created a problem in modelling scene

[bra]

In the last month I have seen a few commercials on the television for the Fruit of the Loom undergarments, the beautiful ladys depicted in the advertisements were varied in body size. It's nice to see normal ones like us sporting a product on tv! :)

[jr_sci]

Whether thin or fat, a model cannot be called a model untill she or he have a perfect figure. But a company should promote real human beings who have gained or lost waight.

[websurfpro]

Many models just starve themselves just to look the way the model agency wants them to look, they are moslty ill because of starving themselves to be thin, I don`t agree with this at all!