Comments on: The Skinny on Fashion http://easyandelegantlife.com/2008/02/08/the-skinny-on-fashion/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:04:53 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Greg http://easyandelegantlife.com/2008/02/08/the-skinny-on-fashion/comment-page-1/#comment-618 Greg Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:57:10 +0000 http://easyandelegantlife.com/2008/02/08/the-skinny-on-fashion/#comment-618 30 years ago I was 6'1" and about 150 lbs and wore a size 38. I did some modeling locally in the Cleveland area and while I never intended to make a living at it I was told by an agent that contacted me that I'd have to put on weight in order to do it seriously. Back then the minimum acceptable size for a male model was 40-41. I ate more then than I do now and today weigh 35 lbs. more. The trend toward stick thin is ridiculous and not very attractive in my opinion, my clothes hang better now than they did then 30 years ago I was 6′1″ and about 150 lbs and wore a size 38. I did some modeling locally in the Cleveland area and while I never intended to make a living at it I was told by an agent that contacted me that I’d have to put on weight in order to do it seriously. Back then the minimum acceptable size for a male model was 40-41. I ate more then than I do now and today weigh 35 lbs. more.
The trend toward stick thin is ridiculous and not very attractive in my opinion, my clothes hang better now than they did then

]]> By: TheElegantologist http://easyandelegantlife.com/2008/02/08/the-skinny-on-fashion/comment-page-1/#comment-611 TheElegantologist Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:58:19 +0000 http://easyandelegantlife.com/2008/02/08/the-skinny-on-fashion/#comment-611 Welcome, Cindy. Yes, Mrs. E and I had the same experience on the Riviera a few years ago. We watched a woman of a certain age stub out her cigarette in a breakfast egg while her friends tried to get her to eat something. On the flip side, I'll never forget our former next door neighbor in France, with his mullet and five teeth, beaming proudly in his new electric blue sportcoat -- "Je suis beau, non? Si, mince...." Welcome, Cindy. Yes, Mrs. E and I had the same experience on the Riviera a few years ago. We watched a woman of a certain age stub out her cigarette in a breakfast egg while her friends tried to get her to eat something.

On the flip side, I’ll never forget our former next door neighbor in France, with his mullet and five teeth, beaming proudly in his new electric blue sportcoat — “Je suis beau, non? Si, mince….”

]]> By: Cindy http://easyandelegantlife.com/2008/02/08/the-skinny-on-fashion/comment-page-1/#comment-609 Cindy Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:14:45 +0000 http://easyandelegantlife.com/2008/02/08/the-skinny-on-fashion/#comment-609 I doubt there is any arguing that the current fashions look best on those rail thin. I do not fit in this category. I am just under 5'2 , a size 6, and have an athletic build. Sometimes it's impossible to find clothes that fit well and most of my purchases have to be tailored. I wish the stores and designers were a tad more in touch with how people are really built vice designing clothes that look great on only the rail thin. I think the saddest sight I have seen in DC was seeing a gal who looked like she was in the advance stages of anexoria, walking into a mall. She was literally skin and bone, I saw very little muscle tissue on her and she looked like death on a cracker but I could almost hear her thinking "gee I am fat." Everyone who saw her stopped in their tracks, it was that disturbing. I doubt there is any arguing that the current fashions look best on those rail thin. I do not fit in this category. I am just under 5′2 , a size 6, and have an athletic build. Sometimes it’s impossible to find clothes that fit well and most of my purchases have to be tailored. I wish the stores and designers were a tad more in touch with how people are really built vice designing clothes that look great on only the rail thin.

I think the saddest sight I have seen in DC was seeing a gal who looked like she was in the advance stages of anexoria, walking into a mall. She was literally skin and bone, I saw very little muscle tissue on her and she looked like death on a cracker but I could almost hear her thinking “gee I am fat.” Everyone who saw her stopped in their tracks, it was that disturbing.

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