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a different sort of fashion advice
May. 17th, 2010 10:57 pmShort 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.
"[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.
