Linda wrote,
| As for the clothes thing: when is someone going to design clothes for a | larger shape which don't seek to flatter by making you look thinner, but | rather by making a skinny person wish they could be a bit fatter so they | too could look good clothes like those?
As long as the idealized sexual woman is rail-thin (and it doesn't matter what real men like or think, it's the film casting directors and fashion editors that create these icons) I can't see this happening, more's the pity.
When M. Monroe was the sex symbol, I think she represented men's real turn-ons: T and A; curvy. Jayne Mansfield even more so. Va-va-VOOM. These were women who made the skinny-Minny teenager yearn to be curvy and voluptuous.
Now teenagers obsess about nothing except being thin. I met Princess Diana at a charity benefit for Jose Carreras when I worked for PolyGram. Later, chatting with one of her aides, I asked what her tour to the USA had been like and the aide commented that it had been a grand success, but puzzled over how all the Americans could talk about was how thin Diana was. Teenage girl after teenage girl interviewed in the media going, "Oh my GOD. She's so THIN. I would DIE to be that THIN".
And it's true. We'll do anything to get thin; believe anyone's improbable pulp, do things to our own bodies that make you wonder about the theory of evolution, we're so dumb.
Rats; I'm depressed now. Excuse me.
Carol S.
Carol Ansell Spradling, Mezzo-soprano Director of Music, St. Augustine's, Syracuse http://home.twcny.rr.com/spradling
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