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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Fashion The Pendulum Swings: Pants

Posted by Marjorie Skinner on Wed, Feb 28 at 3:06 PM

This blog has seen some lively discussion on pants’ shape. We have been weathering an era during which the skinny jean has wreaked its tight-ankled dominance over trends, and many of you Blogtown readers spoke out against its tyranny. But are you ready… to go back all the way opposite, to BELL BOTTOMS? Look what just rolled off the Paris runway at the Balmain show:

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nay on all of those
yay on the last shirt

Posted by jim | February 28, 2007 3:38 PM

Yucky ladies. Give them all a sandwich and something to read.

Posted by Misty Brown | March 1, 2007 3:52 PM

I am getting SOOO tired of the subject of skinny models and girls helplessly emulating them.

I have an idea!: Instead of trying to make models plumper, why not instead work on giving girls enough individualism to resist unrealistic body goals?

I find it particularly disingenuous to worry about the models themselves. Nobody has put a gun to their head and told them to model. If they die from eating nothing but lettuce or dill pickles, well, isn't that Nature's Way?

And with all of this attention on skinny models, I often wonder: Is there a law against telling women that, despite anorexia and bulimia, it's still better to be skinny than fat? More women are dying of heart disease and diabetes and other fat-related diseases, so shouldn't we be overall encouraging women to lose weight rather than giving them an excuse to keep Haagen Daszing themselves to death?

Whenever I see women worrying about OTHER women outside their circle, I smell denial and displacement going on. We women have a habit of wanting to solve other people's issues as a tactic to avoid addressing our own.

I think this whole skinny model controversy is a great example of that.

If you're fat, work on yourself before you worry about others.

Posted by Jill Hill | March 3, 2007 12:31 AM

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