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arildno said:Serious and valid concerns in the thread-killer-champions-thread?
That's close to blasphemy, but I do agree with you.

I'm also saddened that many young girls start to think they ought to have hips and bottoms like a boy, just because so many of the models are anorectic.
There are some girls for whom this would be their natural form, but those are a tiny minority.
I agree. When I was young, models actually had some curves. Maybe not totally natural looking either, but not so emaciated looking (they say Marilyn Monroe was a size 12...at least the way clothes were sized then, that might be an 8 or 10 by modern sizes...um...she did predate me by many years, but just to point out that women didn't used to have to be anorexic to be considered attractive). The models nowadays don't look like they've even gone through puberty. We'd have called them "beanpoles" when I was a kid. Usually they were just the girls who grew a lot taller before they started to gain any of the typical adult fat deposits that we're supposed to have. I don't even think modern models even show the clothing off well. You might as well just stick the clothing onto a hanger and hold it up. Then again, a lot of the stuff you see on the runway looks like rags anyway (maybe they wouldn't look like rags if they weren't hanging off some emaciated, strung-out model). I always think of them as some waif that should be an extra in the orphanage in a filming of Oliver Twist.