Should plus size women model plus size clothing?

11 Comments

  • Robin - 13 years ago

    I'm 6' tall and just over 200 lbs. Let the clothing be modeled by women of approximately the same size as those who will wear it. We don't need muu-muus in loud floral prints, but we do need more room across the shoulders and hips, a generous cut for the arms, and longer arms and backs. We have longer and larger legs, and it isn't a damn sin!
    I'm sick and tired of being told that I have to lose weight to dangerous levels to get anything that is simultaneously stylish and well fitting without spending an arm and a leg. I will not starve myself to 140 lbs to fit some manufactured concept of an 'ideal' size.

  • cody - 13 years ago

    Been both size 4 and size 24.
    There are far more plus size women out there...why not show us truly how the clothes would look. How they would drape or hang...instead of putting on the wrong size models.
    Use whatever size the clothes are...

  • Susan {size 18} - 13 years ago

    I personally get frustrated with the makers of plus size clothing that is sold in stores such as WalMart and Target. I am in a size 18, sometimes if I am lucky I can get into a 16. Why on God's green earth do clothing makers insist on using big flowery prints for larger size women? I would be overjoyed if we could find all of the current styles in every size. A vast amount of women today are in the larger sizes. It is even tough to find a bra with the correct size cup. Why is it that we are suppose to go to specialty shops and spend hundreds of dollars just to be able to buy basic clothing items. I personally am disabled, and the money just isn't there. Also with today's economy, money isn't there for anyone these days.

    My opinion is, let the plus size people model plus size clothing. Also make sure that every style is available in EVERY STYLE, and STOP WITH THE FLORAL PRINT. Treat us all equally, remember that plus sized women are a large amount of consumers. My husband is a big man, we also struggle to find clothing to fit him. If we get lucky enough to find a piece of clothing that we like, we have to pay an average of two dollars more than so-called normal sized people.

    Sorry for the long comment but I so abhour the double standard. If we are larger, then we are not, "NORMAL PEOPLE."

    Have a blessed day, God bless

  • Rachelsize18 - 13 years ago

    Not only is it stupid to use a tiny model to model plus sized clothes but the clothes themselves have become under-designed. They have no true shape or fit or sizing- it is ridiculous and teh fabrics suck and the cut and colors used are AWFUL. I buy clothes and then I basically have to get my tailor to remake the clothes so that they compliment my figure. Bigger is not less. We need more plus sized designers. Plus the clothes are overpriced for the trash they push at us by using some skinny woman in a plus sized suit. It is a sad state.

  • Kathy - 13 years ago

    A Plus Size Model should be at least a 20/24 and plus size women up to a 28/30 should model plus size fashion. The idea that a woman who wears a size 12 - 18 being plus size is ridiculous, they are the most common sizes. If you look closely at the sizing of today's clothing you will see that a size 6 is actually what we used to call a size 10 and so on. The manufacturers are just trying to make women feel they are smaller than what they are. There is no way on earth that a woman who is 5'6" and weighs 150 lbs is a size 14. She in fact should be wearing a size 18-20 but manufacturers have played with sizing to give women a false sense of their body size . I my self wore a size 12 from the time I was in high school and for the next 10 years even though I managed to gain 20 lbs so if that doesn't tell you something about the falsehood of sizing nothing does. Women of the world WAKE UP.

  • Madeline - 13 years ago

    Instead of "Plus Size" why not call them what I call myself, "Above Average"! Sounds good to me!

  • Carol-Anne Blackwell - 13 years ago

    There is a place for models that are size 0- size 28+. The industry places names to identify the "Type" of model according to the division that the model fits into. The "plus-size" consumer will eventually spread the word to designers, retailers, modeling agencies, photographers, stylists, etc. of their discontent. There already has been some positive advances for plus-models as compared to the past decades, but the consumer has been noticing a change backwards. They'll be heard despite what the industry decides they want...give it some more time.

  • Lenny - 13 years ago

    I'm a designer of plus size clothing... I always try to urge the stores & catalogs to display their clothing on size 16/18 models. Some magazines photograph a very curvy big & busty size 10 model (the camera will add the additional pounds) and the model in the photo looks like a size 16 --> result: "Less work for the actual size 16/18 models".
    "Back in the day" Department Stores used to have two sides of the store aisle.. Missy size 2 - 14 Woman's size 14 - 24..... If you are size 14 you could shop either side of the aisle, and most women want to shop on the missy side confirming that you are not "FAT" otherwise shopping across the aisle means you are "FAT". Also, the Missy side offers more variety, style, twice as many racks.
    Today most plus size merchandise is usually in the back of the store with less variety, styles, and fewer racks. Only problem is.... the majority of the customers are plus size.... Maybe the stores should put a camera at the door and see the average sizes of their daily customers... Maybe then they would put the Plus Size 14/18 at the front, and Missy size in the back. It's all about business! Retailers should cater to the customers that are in the majority "Just take a look" !!!!!!

  • Cyn - 13 years ago

    I agree with Susan and Carla. There are plenty of places for those size 2, and even size 8 models to model clothing. I think the *minimum* size for a plus-sized model displaying plus-sized clothing is a 16, and I'd like to see a few in the larger ranges - 20-24. To Susan's point, I've seen a number of things in catalogs with skinny models that I've gone out to buy, taken then off the rack, laughed, and put them back and walked out of the store. NOT what the retailer really has in mind. Yeah, they've gotten me into their store, but I've not only not bought anything, I'm actually less likely to look at their ads or waste my time going to their store again for another bait-and-switch.

  • Carla - 13 years ago

    Just go wo womanwithin.com or some other company that specializes in plus sizes - the thin models they are using make the clothes look weird.

    When I see them in the shirts, particularly, I'm thinking "maternity" tops and have no interest.

    I have a weight problem; I know this. I don't need to look BIGGER. LOL Let them model in Modern Woman or one of those other clothing lines.

  • susan - 13 years ago

    A size 2 model will not realistically show you what that clothing will look like on a size 16 body. As much as we all like to fanticize that we would look like that, once we look in the mirror with those clothes on what we see will ultimately make us put them back on the rack and not buy them. The fashion industry needs to get their heads out of their fantasy world (behinds) and into the the REAL WORLD of the REAL WOMAN.

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