Height discrimination in modelling?

[DreamChaser23]

To think this is very prevalent in both genders ? Most websites and magazines I have seen appear to do this

Men - I rarely see a guy under 5'9 most are 6ft or above

Women - Most of the women I see are very slim, and 5'7 or over.

It is a real shame to see lack of representation

You can't tell how tall someone is from a photograph.

Cameras have a nasty habit of making people look shorter and wider than they really are. Widescreen telly is even worse.

People on a stage or catwalk are also going to look shorter and wider than they really are because of the angle they're viewed at.

High fashion designers are mostly gay men who would rather hang their women's clothes on figures resembling gangly adolescent boys or wire coat hangers rather than having to accommodate inconveniences like boobs and hips.

I think given these pressures it's going to take a lot more than a bit of conventional protest politics to make high fashion more inclusive. TBH we may be seeing the end of the dominance of high fashion anyway, for other reasons.

Thanks for this.

The whole point of modelling is to discriminate on the basis of looks. What next, upset over a lack of acne?

I can understand getting annoyed by a lack of ethnic diversity or age variations but I don’t see anything wrong with exclusively using beautiful people.

I don’t see any harm in using beautiful people to model clothes. I quite enjoy looking at catalogues with beautiful people in beautiful clothes.

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I get why runway models have to be tall. Not sure why catalogue and magazine models have to be though.

I'm 5'1 and not bitter at all .

As others have said models are not supposed to be average. They are supposed to stand out and be clothes horses. Why does this bother you? Twice i had model angencies contact me on twitter about my pictures (not because i am pretty, im not but because i am very unusual looking) when they found out i am 5'2 they told me i wasnt suitable and i understood. (Not that my ugly ass wanted to be a model anyway). Not everyone can be a model otherwise the whole world would be one.

I don’t see any harm in using beautiful people to model clothes. I quite enjoy looking at catalogues with beautiful people in beautiful clothes.

The OP isn't asking about beauty. She's asking about height.

You can't tell how tall someone is from a photograph.

Exactly. You still have to be a certain height to model clothes for a magazine .

I am very tall. I can confirm that the clothes they model are not available in shops or I would be able to find trousers that actually fit.

They are supposed to stand out and be clothes horses.

Runway models are, yes.

Not sure about models for magazines and the like which I think is what the OP is asking.

I think Rhianna has actually done excellently with her choice of models.

They are all striking and unique, and yes, diverse. They in no way look like any woman you could drag off the street in terms of height, weight or colouring. They're all very beautiful, and she's led a range that suits a range of heights and weights - small boobs, big boobs, straight/curvy, natural hair, alabaster white skin, very dark skin, big lips etc etc.

As I said upthread, it's fine to choose beauty. But I don't think it's fine - or particularly impressive - to design clothes that only look good on the hanger or a waif-thin model.

The average size woman is 16 in uk isn't t it? But majority of models are size 8 or so. Simple reason why tall and slim people are used? It makes the clothes look better.

Bit like saying intelligence discrimination in MENSA.

Height isn't a protected characteristic.

If you don't mind discriminating by height, why such demand for plus size models?

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