“Oh my god, Becky, look at her butt”
Posted in Rants/Raves on 05/07/2006 12:48 pm by enjanerdYes, I’ve ranted about this plenty of times before. But Ian sent me this article and I’m all angry about it again:
0 is the new 8
Alright, women. No one cares what size you wear. Tags are on the inside of clothes. No one is going to go fishing around checking to see what size you really are. Stop pandering to these horrible vanity sizes so everyone gets to have clothes that fit them!
I’m sick of being told I’m not allowed to complain because I’m not overweight. I look just as silly wearing slacks that sag off my waist and butt as women wearing tube tops with belly flab sticking out. Well, maybe not the same kind of silly. But you know what I mean.
I’ll concede that not every weight problem is controllable, but there are still plenty of people who choose to eat unhealthily, don’t exercise, and complain about gaining weight. Fine. You have that right. But don’t buy into vanity sizing. That really does only hurt the little people.
While I understand what the fashion industry is doing, I think the fact that it works reflects how dumb and vain women are. It’s not like I look at a size 8 woman wearing vanity size 0 pants and think to myself, “Wow, she’s hot. She’s a *size 0*.” And at the same time, it’s also not like I look at her and think, “Oh my god. That woman is a size 8. *gasp* How does she live with herself?” No one cares.
What I think the clothing industry is missing is that the range of sizes has stayed relatively the same; the distribution is just different. Assuming an increase in average weight, but still more people within the “normal” weight range than the “obese” range, we’re looking at a skewed bell curve. This leaves a significant number of people one or two standard deviations away from the mean who are getting bumped off the scale.
It’s hard enough to find clothes in the right proportions for height, hips, waist, bust, shoulders, etc. without constantly having the sizes moved around on us. Stop the stupidity!