The Size Zero Debate

It's a big or size zero (however way you look at it) issue, It's in press daily, the debate on stick thin girls around towns or walking the catwalk...It's a subject that is close to my heart due to the fact that like every teenage girl we all hate our bodies, I don't think I can name a single girl who looks at themselves in the mirror and doesn't wonder..what if? I also like most people these days have encountered not only myself but in friends or in family people who suffer with some kind of body dysmorphia. An absolute disgust in your own appearance and for what reason?

The only reason that I think engages and provokes this vicious circle is of course the Media interest...the ideology of the ultimate 'beach bod', the cruel nicknames of 'love handles' and 'thunder thighs' in by gone days, these characteristics were what women aspired to have. Curvy, vivacious women that embraced there curves rather then try and become a washboard..

Now I'm not going to be a hypocrite, My legs are too big, my feet are too big, I want smaller hips, a smaller nose and a breast reduction...and why? because people keep flaunting these airbrushed celebs in our faces and the real idea of a woman's body is ultimately tarnished!

Working in fashion is of course highly renowned for it's stereotypes of stick thin women and it was working on one publication recently during my interns that i realised just how fierce the women's idealistic body really is...

So I'm sitting in the office, eating my second cupcake from Lola's of the day when in comes the stylists and two very tall, very skinny models...Everything you would expect from a catwalk model...they posed, fiddled with their hair, tried on numerous outfits then left...I think throughout the entirety of their fifteen minute stay in my office I gawped at their 'perfect' bodies the whole time...

When they left I heard the most remarkable, yet truthful but hard hitting comment I think possibly I had ever heard relating to this particular subject and it was from the stylist.."So what one shall we go for, the one with big hips or the one with big ears" I couldn't believe it.....there was NOTHING wrong with these girls...big hips....if they had big hips, what the hell did the stylist think that I looked like.
So me, being me, asked....Why do stylists use stick thin girls instead of curvy ones, because we all know it would make ourselves feel normal for once..(if your like me, seeing a picture of Pixie Lott covered in acne makes you sing and dance) and the reply I got "clothes just look better on skinny girls"

and that was it, there was my answer, shocking, true, and summed up in a sentence, It's no real answer or question for the whole self hatred of the body but It was a point that a professional thought of as valid enough...

With that I finished off eating my cupcake and vowed that tomorrow would be the point of healthy diets and exercises...funnily enough it never came...

S.x

Pet hates of the fashion world

Sooo...I've just got back off of holiday and started to realise that as much as people think that clothes that are ugly might be benefiting them in some way, there not, and therefore you look stupid...let me explain.

The bane of my existence, the most ridiculous shoe in the world, yes the croc...although it may be the most comfortable shoe in the world, It is by far the most unsociable. Bright, heavy, chunky, plastic, lary extremities that people think are fine for holidays, your wrong!

CROC RULES: if you are under five you may wear the socially unacceptable croc at your own risk anywhere...yes babies you have it easy...however over five and under ten....you my friends can only wear them at a beach...and I'm not talking about a sandpit at the local park, no no a proper holiday beach! Over ten, I'm afraid this is where the hideous relationship you have with these satanic soles is over...no more...Bye Bye Crocs, otherwise you might as well just go and where socks and sandals!

YET ANOTHER FASHION DISASTER-why oh why did anyone ever think it was a good idea to bring back leg warmers....your not engaging in any sport activity and if you are what possibly could you be doing that you need those monstrosities on for in the first place! Leg warmers are a definite faux pau in my mind and will be one thing that I don't intend on resurrecting any time soon...

AND FINALLY FOR TODAY...we all know its Summer ladies but please..ever heard of the expression legs or boobs...both...really? too much flesh, you look like a mess.... I don't want to see all these women's bums..why cant people wear a vest top underneath that see-through crochet top.

aren't I a pleasant one for today...obviously still job hunting and having no such luck!
BAD TIMES

S.x