Rise Of the Real People

It's about time!

Did the author fail to realize that a lot of the people looking at blogs about street fashion might also have an interest in runway fashion models and gasp! can even identify them by name? For people that are interested in fashion there isn't a brick wall between the runway and what people wear on the street. It's possible to take inspiration from everything. I can appreciate the delicate beauty of a runway model, but I can also enjoy a "normal" person looking fabulous on the street. The two things aren't mutually exclusive.

Most models are in their teens to early 20s, so I don't find it inconceivable that they can be that thin and lanky. I think it's also strange how on the one hand people condemn thin models but turn around and say it would be okay if she just had "curves". How is it more attainable for the average person to have an ample chest, 22-24 inch waist and perfect hips? It's not. So if people are going to criticize, I think the FHM/Maxim female ideal should be criticized along with everything else.

Anyways, I think the styling of the show makes them look a lot sicklier than they are. If you see the same models in a candid photo off the street they just look like thin, fresh faced young girls, hardly the scary victims on the verge of death that most are made out to be.

They have been saying this since around 97...when so many died of heroin....that they would work on the thinness and the drug addiction. I read these articles all the time. gay men running (most of) the fashion world will never use women with hips or health. but we will continue to read about this 'new thing.'

When is the fantasy world of models and fashion going to join reality. Its seems either painfully thin women or metrosexual men are the standards. This does not reflect the world or the common person on the streets. YES! These images are damaging to our youth and even suggestive adults. It really amazes me that although " real women have curves" are hardly ever represented there rasing popularity is unquestioned! Just a thought but ,maybe just maybe if we stopped glorifying this popularity of prepubescent looking women on stage. It just might stop the fad of dressing little girls like street walkers and Walmart selling Brittney Spears starter kits.

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Seeing a certain body type of a model become popular in the industry should not be encouraging. What I mean is that people should not be looking to these pictures and shows for encouragement. That is all it is, really, images. Models do not go out and sell the clothes they wear, they just wear them. They put them on and have their pictures taken, or put them on and walk down a path. A mannequin can do half of that. Although, I think that if mannequins did come to replace models people would still complain. This is a problem with society today: people idolize others so much that they forget that they have themselves. There was a time when almost every kid could tell you who their idol was. They would tell you, "My Mom!" or "My dad!" This is because parents were involved, and families spent time together. Parents were parents, and relied on themselves to teach their kids how to be people. Now you see kids looked to magazines, television, and radio to tell them how to look, how to feel, how to live, or what's good or bad about them. Parents used to be teachers, used to be the biggest constants in their children's lives. Now they have to work, so their kids go to daycare. They have to stay late, so the babysitter needs to stay extra hours. They're off doing errands because this is the only time they have to do it, so the kid has to help themselves with homework. Parents aren't involved anymore, so kids are insecure with themselves. They don't have a constant fixture because their parents aren't there. I'm a high school student; I'm appalled at the behaviors of some of my classmates. They do things that are simply wrong, and when asked "What would your parents think?" or "Didn't your parents teach you better?" They snap back something like, "My parents don't care", "My parents don't know", or "It doesn't matter." This is simply outlandish. I can't imagine saying my parents don't matter or know; I want them to know. They know better than me and I can learn from them. Whatever happened to the expression moms have eyes in the back of their heads. And a parent not caring probably speaks for itself. -Continued-

If models and movie stars fail to uphold an unattainable standard, maybe America won't buy all the junk products that promise to help us chase this standard. Our economy would collapse and social order would unravel! Unhappiness keeps us lurching forward.

W Magazine has been featuring editorial pages WITHOUT airbrushing/retouching - real models with freckles, moles, and a few wrinkles.... and the clothes still LOOK GREAT....I wish all magazines would do this...

Gah, I don't want to see the damn model, I want to see the CLOTHES! Models are 'stick thin and expressionless' for a reason- so they don't distract from the main event. This is just another pointless exercise in political correctness.

This so called change is just in the wishful thinking of big fat greedy over eaters across America.
That poor girl in the photos needs to cover those big long fat porky legs...Jeez
Thin will always be sexy whether its male or female models and fat can never ever be sexy, but only the opposite. We all have a choice in life. Do you want to be left at home alone in your apartment with a big pile of food, or do you want to be invited everywhere because you are beautifully thin and sexy and never be with out a lover? I will forsake that burger any day for some nice beaver instead!

Maybe this will give a chance for designers who specialize in non-standard sizing a chance to shine. These designers are often overlooked because they don't use the typical 5'10", 110 lb fifteen year old. Maybe we'll see more petite, plus and petite-plus designers out there in the near future. Remember, people, the term "real people" includes those of us who're short and thin. We don't fit the "ideal beauty" look either!

Can we see some models that are under 5'9'' for a change? Talk about discrimination! I'm 5'4'' around 100 lbs and can't get an agent to look my way because of my height.

Keeping unhealthy overweight people off the cat walk will remind others that being fat is not ok. America is the most obese country in the world. Being loud and proud about weighing 200 pounds is ridiculous. It leads to diabetes, heart trouble, and bad circulation. Besides, who wants to be distracted by models? The clothes are the main event, that's why the models are thin and plain. So they won't distract from the clothes. Putting people that look like every day schlubs you see walking on the street is just another attempt at political correctness, which is severly misplaced in the world of fashion.

If by "real people" they mean "models with flesh" then it's true, but still I see no blemishes, dimples, bruises, calouses, glasses, split ends, off-white teeth or shorties! That's still a long way from real.

I once wore large shirts. For the past several years I have bought medium. And, during sales there are lots of XL and XXL on the racks. Sizes for everyday people have shifted for the larger.

I've studied fashion, so I know the point of rail-thin models, as well as the obese model. It's all to do with the clothes themselves. Pure and simple. However, people misconstrue that they are selling the clothes and not the model, and people begin to want to have impossible looks that are not meant for them. People also want to take the model and say 'here, this is what women should look like' it's not true. Everyone comes in different shapes and sizes, and some women are curvier than others, as well as more over-weight. There was a time when that was what was considered beautiful, because the wide hips meant the girl was perfect for child-bearing.
I do not care how people view, I do not desire to follow societie's rather insipid rules. I will be me no matter what the 'norm' is considered. If I fit in with the crowd, okay, if not, oh well. Years of being made fun of has only made me defiant, not compliant. You tell me you think I'm ugly cause I am big, and I don't care, I'm more interested in proving to you that I am amazing and that people love me for me.