a different sort of fashion advice

[anotheranon]

Short due to time but wanted to post before I forgot about it completely:

"[Fashion] advice is almost always aimed at getting women’s bodies, whatever shape they might be, to conform with one ideal body type: the (skinny) hourglass figure.

"I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where the fashion industry encouraged us to “emphasize” our differences from one another, instead of trying to make us all look the same."

Trying to remember this because if I actually succeed with the 100 pushups deal, there's no way my already broad shoulders AREN'T going to be further accentuated.

So rather than be scared of looking like John Cleese dressed as Little Red Riding Hood (or like a hockey player dressed in a tutu) I need to just own it.

Could post more about how the ideal mainstream female body is hungry and weak, but I've stayed up too late already. Next on the self-improvement jag: time management.

Comments

[tommdroid.livejournal.com]

Interesting...

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Sadly all too true. What really makes me want to scream are articles that will talk about the wonderful variety of female shapes and how we should embrace them and then use the term "figure flaws" in the same paragraph (sewing magazines are majorly guilty of this one). They are NOT flaws! They are merely DIFFERENCES!!!

BTW, I've always thought Mr. Cleese looked rather cute in the red cape. ***GRIN***

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Dewd, Cleese as LRR was one of the most hilariously disturbing parts of the "German episodes"!

[shemhazai.livejournal.com]

So you're doing the 100 pushups thang? Good for you! I've thought of doing it but never took the plunge...

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

It doesn't take much time, but it's very hard, at least for me.