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by Moxie » Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:44 pm
I didn't really have a point in my last post... I was just saying "wow she's pretty", "can you believe there are people out there for whom she isn't good-looking enough?" and "thongs make me retch". The people making the comments about her were just average joe's, who seemed the think she had too many "flaws". Actually, funnily enough, it seems that most people involved in the fashion industry are more apt to see beauty in non-typically-beautiful things than these average joe's.
A few words in defense of fashion, which is kicked around and disrespected without appology rather frequently:
The fashion industry (or more specifically, designers) favour long and lean bodies because clothing looks better on them. It's not to be mean, or to exclude larger women and belittle them as less-deserving of nice clothing. Women with extreme ectomorphic shapes act as a living hanger, nearly disappearing and allowing the clothing to shine. What you see on the runway is not meant to be actually worn by anybody like regular clothing. Fashion works in a "trickle-down" effect. The pieces on the runway are quite literally art! One of a kind, exquisitely detailed, made with devoted attention and inspired by countless muses, and how that designer sees the world. When the designers then release their new lines to the stores, you see items with the same mood, colours and materials. The attention given to the quality is still there, and although it isn't mass-produced, there is still enough to go around. It's a common misconception that high-profile designers only make clothing for tall, thin women. But different designers make clothing suited for different shapes. Some who's clothing is a blessing for larger hips, some for narrow shoulders, small bosoms, ect. It is still highly expensive, but not nearly as much. $300 sounds like a lot for a pair of pants, until you try them on and realize that with clothing you really do get what you pay for. It's about investing in one great pair of pants that fit you perfectly and somehow make your ass look ten times better, as if by magic. It's about really, truly being able to wear them with ANYTHING you own and not even having to think about how it all falls together. It's about having a handful of pieces that you LOVE instead of a whole closet full of crap you have to try on with 10 other things to see how it looks. I'd rather have those $300 pants that will still look good years from now instead of several pairs of cheaply made trousers that pooch at the pockets with seams coming loose in a year. The further down the line fashion trickles, the more quality is compromised. You eventually see bits of these lines making their way to the less expensive stores in form of more regular items, like a pattern on a shirt instead of a full-length ballgown. Then a couple of years or so later, you see evidence of them showing up in places like Sears, in the form of something like a high-heeled sneaker. It's stuff like this that makes "trend" a dirty word. I'm not really going anywhere with this, it just rambled out when I got going about the whole "women not fitting into this stuff" thing lol.
"Eccentrics are individuals whose rich imaginations outstrip their
surroundings." -Lord Whimsy
this sh*t is bannanas 
Not that she can't get away with it! I read the messages people posted in the yahoo news thingy, and there were actually people saying things like she had a *fat ass* 
pictures are available on the internet 
sexy.