To think using such a skinny model is irresponsible?

[Awkwardsis]

yes Next, I'm looking at you
I came across is when I was browsing for some new jeans. Surely noone is actually that thin? And I've been anorexic! Whatever do shops still insist on using such skinny models? And no, this isn't 'thin shaming', I know we all come in different shapes and sizes. Not to add, those jeans are gopping.

Lessmiss, I am well aware that the average woman is too fat, that is not my point.

Next are not there to promote good health they dont care if everyone is overweight and unhealthy, they have no interest in promoting a healthy lifestyle, they just want to sell clothes and make a profit

sorry but those legs are sticks

How bloody rude!!

I don't think she is that then tbh. My legs are very thin, they always have been. I am a size 8, I have never been bigger than a 10.

Haha so true lesmissabs I was just trying to think of no e even vaguely overweight friend and I don't have any - I have a couple who are blessed with great big bums and boobs but who are active so still slim. Even the people I know who don't do much organised excersising are still slim cos they have very active lives. It's not normal to be fat. Fifty years ago when our society sat around less we were all smaller.

Lessmiss, fyi I live in the gym and have never set foot in mcdonalds.

I'm a very small, but odd shape. Technically I'm an 8, but size 8 skinny jeans don't sit on me like they do a long, lean model.

I suspect that you assumed I'm fat because I wonder why next dont make clothes to flatter the average woman?

Next are pretty good at 'diversity' actually

They have a petite range
A tall range .... Not a 'long' cop out like m&s
Maternity range
Plus sizes

How many high st clothes retailers offer all that?

Next sizes can be nutty though. I recently bought two pairs of size 6 trousers - one pair of skinny jeans (NOT the ones in the photo, high waists are OF THE DEVIL) and one pair of soft casual trousers - and they are both huge on me. I'm really NOT a size 4. I'm a size 6-8. I think their vanity sizing has gone too far! Or, their quality control is shoddy. Or both things.

It's not so much that she's thin but that she's been photoshopped to a shape that does not exist in nature. Yes there are people that are this thin but there aren't really people with legs this long but whose legs fit onto their body without any sort of hip structure. I very often see pictures like this in magazines and it drives me mad. Boden are also very guilty of it.

I'm surprised this has turned into an argument about thin vs fat. The whole picture jars with me because it's not a genuine human frame, regardless of size.

High waists are not of the devil. I find high waists more comfortable than low rise, which cut into me when I sit down, not to mention that I am forever having to hitch them up.

I agree with whoever said that high waists are the devil. I like the top of the waistband on trousers/jeans to sit about an inch below my navel.

Any lower and there is the risk of muffin top. High waisted trousers make my stomach look enormous.

The inner thighs are pretty poorly photoshopped, but i would say the model ia wearing a size to big iyswim?

Holy baroque anatomy, Batman!

Wish I looked like her if I stopped eating crap and exercised more I possibly could
I've got some of the next high waisted bum lifter jeans,they don't particularly lift my bum, but they sit higher up and take away my terrible muffin too! I love them :)

bun They really are of the devil. Nothing more horrible than having a waistline round your actual waist, gaping and gapping. Trousers that fit properly should never cut in to you though so either you are the wrong shape for low rise (as I clearly am for waist high) or you had a rogue pair of trousers.

I think perhaps I should invest in some hoick-yer-bum-up trousers. Sadly they don't seem to make such garments in my size (or perhaps I'm not looking hard enough). Some people seem to think that small bums don't slip. Sadly they are wrong wrong wrongitty wrong.

yabu there are women that thin. I don't think she's that thin.

Anyway I know afew, the jeans are horrid.

Lots of people are naturally that skinny, it depends on body type; how much muscle mass someone has and how their body is proportioned. I don't think it looks attractive but unattractive shouldn't be banned or accused of mental illness.

I don't think being that thin is necessarily unhealthy, but it doesn't sell the jeans to me.

I'm skinnier than that.
hmm, maybe about the same. I'm fine. I've been on the brighton meet [ginr] and a whole heap of mners have seen me eat a meal of the normal size.

Yeh, I should be bigger

Yabu I don't want to see clothes modelled on large models. Just because the national average is a size 14 doesn't mean models or manaquins should be.

I do want to see clothes modelled on large models. Why not.

Why not?

Because it's not healthy

And I don't want my kids growing up thinking it's a good thing to be the size of a plus size mannequin thanks

But it is life in Britain. A few catwalks and some manequins dont promote anything imo.
And if we look at the what we have currently, well that has hardly been a resounding success.

" I like the top of the waistband on trousers/jeans to sit about an inch below my navel."

So do I. That is where high waist trousers and jeans sit on me.

"either you are the wrong shape for low rise"

Yes I am. My waist is 12" smaller than my hips and I have quite a long body, and low and mid rise trousers just slip down and cut into me.

Fortunately, these days it is easier to buy trousers and jeans cut for women with waists and hips than it used to be. My last pair came from Sainsburys and are really flattering and cost a huge £14!