Six pet peeves, Pt. 6 (At last)
Wednesday, 18. April 2007, 23:37:06
After I added weather forecasters who mess me about something had to give, and in this case it was either the fashion industry, or pitch-correction devices, and since I'm forever having a go at the music industry, I've decided that fashion it is.
Or should that be 'fashion it isn't'? Maybe, 'Fashion? It shouldn't be'.
You know why they call the product of a fashion designer a 'Line of clothes'? Because the models look like clothes lines.
It all comes down to two words. 'Zero' and 'Boobies'. Size zero shouldn't exist in the fashion world because anyone who is young enough to fit into size zero clothing naturally isn't old enough to be interested in fashion. It's a child's size. The feminine sex are supposed to have boobies.
Not necessarily Jayne Mansfield mountainous mammaries or Posh Spice style silicon beef-ups, but definitely not the pimples that size zero models live with. Those girls should see a doctor because most of them have a real problem.
By nature I'm a loner, but there is one case in which I'm actually proud to be one of the majority. In a recent survey a selection of several hundred guys were shown images of boobless wonders and properly built girls and asked to choose the sexiest. Fewer than 5% chose the skinny ones. There's a reason for that.
Just as men are designed with this annoying little vulnerability dangling between their legs in order to further the procreation of the species, women are designed to carry these two weights on their chest in order to facilitate the feeding of these aforementioned procreations. Men are attracted to boobies in exactly the same way that women aren't attracted to eunuchs.
For once it is actually true to say that size doesn't matter, except for one little thing. They should at the very least be substantial enough to be worthy of the term 'size'. Pimples have no size. I have nipples bigger than pimples and believe me they don't qualify as a size. Size means big enough to hold enough milk to feed the sprog. Sprogs are small, but they still need more than a pimple can hold. I know, I was one once...
This being the case I do occasionally have to wonder why the fashion industry is so smitten with size zero models, and I've decided that it's because they're crap. They can't design clothes to fit women with proper figures because proper figures vary, whereas skinny birds are always the same shape. Skinny.
Someone with a little more clout than I should issue a challenge to the designers of fashion clothing to design a line of clothing that can be modelled by properly shaped girls, and I'm not just talking boobies any more. There are tall girls and small girls out there as well. I'd like to see the kings and queens of the fashion world design a line of clothes that could actually be worn by any woman of any age, shape, size, or bust.
Off the peg.
Of course, they'd still look like overpriced tat, but at least it would be overpriced tat that people could actually wear.
Or should that be 'fashion it isn't'? Maybe, 'Fashion? It shouldn't be'.
You know why they call the product of a fashion designer a 'Line of clothes'? Because the models look like clothes lines.
It all comes down to two words. 'Zero' and 'Boobies'. Size zero shouldn't exist in the fashion world because anyone who is young enough to fit into size zero clothing naturally isn't old enough to be interested in fashion. It's a child's size. The feminine sex are supposed to have boobies.
Not necessarily Jayne Mansfield mountainous mammaries or Posh Spice style silicon beef-ups, but definitely not the pimples that size zero models live with. Those girls should see a doctor because most of them have a real problem.
By nature I'm a loner, but there is one case in which I'm actually proud to be one of the majority. In a recent survey a selection of several hundred guys were shown images of boobless wonders and properly built girls and asked to choose the sexiest. Fewer than 5% chose the skinny ones. There's a reason for that.
Just as men are designed with this annoying little vulnerability dangling between their legs in order to further the procreation of the species, women are designed to carry these two weights on their chest in order to facilitate the feeding of these aforementioned procreations. Men are attracted to boobies in exactly the same way that women aren't attracted to eunuchs.
For once it is actually true to say that size doesn't matter, except for one little thing. They should at the very least be substantial enough to be worthy of the term 'size'. Pimples have no size. I have nipples bigger than pimples and believe me they don't qualify as a size. Size means big enough to hold enough milk to feed the sprog. Sprogs are small, but they still need more than a pimple can hold. I know, I was one once...
This being the case I do occasionally have to wonder why the fashion industry is so smitten with size zero models, and I've decided that it's because they're crap. They can't design clothes to fit women with proper figures because proper figures vary, whereas skinny birds are always the same shape. Skinny.
Someone with a little more clout than I should issue a challenge to the designers of fashion clothing to design a line of clothing that can be modelled by properly shaped girls, and I'm not just talking boobies any more. There are tall girls and small girls out there as well. I'd like to see the kings and queens of the fashion world design a line of clothes that could actually be worn by any woman of any age, shape, size, or bust.
Off the peg.
Of course, they'd still look like overpriced tat, but at least it would be overpriced tat that people could actually wear.
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