AIBU to question Snag Tights using very plus-size models?

I find it utterly disgraceful that @HonestOrca finds it appropriate to besmirch someone's name without proof. Disgusting behaviour. I have actually messaged Mumsnet to take down the post.

And 'Andrew Taylor' is hardly an unusual name...

Got anything, @HonestOrca ?

And your proof? We have been on the phone this week because a debt collection agency thinks my husband owes money for the debt of someone else with the same name, birthday and hometown as him. That is a hell of a thing to say without something solid to show the link.

I like their models. I'm a size 14 myself and need the shorts to stop my legs rubbing under summer dresses. I feel a bit down about my figure sometimes but I do find it refreshing to see these beautiful confident ladies in bodies bigger than my own. They sell clothes for all those sizes, why not show how they fit on those sizes too?

I was looking at a swimsuit oh the John Lewis website yesterday and this boyshort design looked lovely on the size 8 model but I just couldn't get the image of how it might look on me and whether it would scale up to still be cute and ended up leaving it.

I would have loved some pictures of it on different sized women, I wish more stores did this.

I'm deeply suspicioous of @HonestOrca 's claim and I have no intention of believing a word of it until she supplies some evidence. I've done a fair bit of Googling too and found absolutely nothing.

I can literally find no trace of this man having anything to do with the CEO of Snag? I’ve checked companies house, social media profiles, news outlets etc. so I’d like to know where this has come from?

Same. I would like to see some evidence.

Where does it say anything about Snag Tights? I googled and found nothing.

Good God,I've just googled. Kind of doesn't surprise me though,it's such an odd fetish site.

You know it really pisses me off that one of the CEO's of snag tights literally lives with a pedophile. He also works at snag tights as operations manager. Look up Andrew Taylor Hawick in news. I don't know how they managed to keep it out the media, maybe its not interesting enough or very good lawyers. But thats one good reason to hate snag tights.

Dresses are easier to get - as long as the waist (or the bust) matches, 99 times out of 100, you know it's going to fit, The 1% is in respect of bodycon and heavily structured styles usually characterised by back zips - which makes a general photo showing the back or side necessary, but the presence of said zip is a binary question that can be solved with a photo of any model, even an AI one as long as it shows there is a zip.

Tights are worn next to the body over areas that are even more variable in women. There is no well, I fit into that size dress with loads of space in the chest area, but are they talking about a general dress size, is it thinking of somebody with a large bust but more or less flat abdomen and do I count as 5'3" - 5'8" or do I count as 5'6" - 5'9" or is it a really firm band which puts me into the 5'8" - 6'0" or is that only because of the leg length rather than the waist or is the leg knit really tight on these so I'd need to give up and look for another brand or go for an XXL which has completely different measurements altogether than put my height as weighing four stone more but is that 4 stone of breasts rather than 4 stone divided between abdomen and swollen legs....

A good friend of mine is one of their models. She's a beautiful, wonderful, talented woman and the difference this has made to her self confidence and self belief has been so wonderful to see.

Fat people aren't blind. We see how we look. We know what's unhealthy. It's still lovely to be able to see other people out there showing what clothes will look like on our bodies, which we exist in and need clothing for.

It doesn't matter. If a brand aims at super-skinny people, they're still not allowed to use underweight models.

That's their target market though. Photos using super skinny models were aimed standard size people.

Well guess what.

Morbidly obese people still need clothes. Morbidly obese people also like to see what clothes and items look like on other obese people.

Pretty sad of you to create a rage bait thread. Grow up.

I could understand for a dress, but for a pair of tights?

There are underweight people too, but they're no longer allowed in advertising.

" I’m frankly amazed that there are such models left, given the popularity of wli!"

Some plus-sized models are faked - slim women wearing padding. Explains why quite a few of them have slim faces.

I hope you keep the same energy when a size 10 bends over in a thong?

Please stop with the equating “anorexic” with very thin. Or making comparisons with anorexia and morbid obesity. They are not at all synonymous.

Anorexia is a mental illness. Morbid obesity might have causes that are linked to poor mental health. But it is not of itself a mental illness.

People with anorexia will often be very thin. But not always. When my daughter was in recovery from severe life threatening anorexia she achieved a (lowish) healthy BMI. She still had anorexia.

And some people will be very underweight for reasons other than the significant mental health illness that is anorexia.

I cannot abide the phrase “looking anorexic”. It’s reductive and ignorant.

In terms of your AIBU OP - yes you are unreasonable to think that fat people should not have any representation in advertising and media. It is a dehumanizing and really very unpleasant stance to adopt.

It's a hell of a lot better than the grids you get on conventional tights. Which, for fat people, only ever come in black, brown, grey etc.

Do you have an issue with men wearing tights?

Of course, but without the model’s stats and what size she (he) is wearing it’s all a bit of a guessing game.

That's exactly why images of various people of different heights, sizes and shapes helps.

I don’t think Snag put these specific measurements on their site.
Do the images of morbidly obese women bending over in a thong help you make the right choice?

Posters like the one you replied one really do want fat people to exist in drab, poor, boring and uncomfortable clothes, as a punishment for being fat. She thinks if we are made to live like that, maybe we will see the light and lose the weight. It's a really awful mindset.

I'm looking forward to the new patterns this autumn - two pairs of my Snags have died (after 6 years' faithful service and many, many, many washes) and I intend to replace them with worthy successors.