To feel slightly uncomfortable with this?

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I have 2 very reluctant clothes shoppers for sons and so end up doing a lot of their clothes shopping online and then they can say yay or nay at home. Today I have been looking at the Jack Wills site, exclusively at the men's clothing - jeans, shirts, etc, and have put some items in the basket. When I looked at the basket it gave me some suggestions of other things I might like. Based on my browsing history, why on earth would it come up with this other than thinking I'm a randy teenage boy?

Also, while the male models are a healthy 32R sort of size model, these girls are clearly underage/underweight.

For goodness sake they aren't underweight. They look perfectly healthy. I'm not much bigger than that and I'm 37!

I'm reading you're concerned your teenage boys have been looking at the girls underwear section?
Really? Isn't that what all teenage boys do?

I'm reading you're concerned your teenage boys have been looking at the girls underwear section?

You need to read again.

Threads like this make me wonder how many parents are unnecessarily worried that their perfectly healthy teens, have eating disorders.

I know my exDP used to look at the ladies underwear section of his mum's Grattan catalogue in the 60s / 70s!

In those days it looked more like this!

They look 19/20... not in any way underage. They don’t even look like young for their age 20 year olds to me, and I managed bars in a previous life and ID’d thousands of young women in that time.
They’re also not underweight, they look perfectly healthy. We’re just so used to people getting fatter and saying that’s what’s normal, we think perfectly healthy people are skinny and unhealthy.

You know you're getting older when late teens/young twenties look underage to you.

Underage for what? Modelling underwear?

Tyey look like teenagers are supposed to look.

Too many people are overweight, so it's become 'normalized'. This is what everyone used to look like before all the junk food, sugar and massive 'oversized' servings and constant snacking took over the western world.

I would judge them to be around 20 years old. Maybe a year or two younger at most. I work with this age group, so I see a lot of them daily. They really don´t look underage to me.

Were you buying underwear for your sons? That could trigger the underwear for girls products to appear. Were the items you bought a similar price?

They look great. As pps have said, that’s what young women should look like! It’s far healthier than being overweight, which is what far too many young people (and older, obviously) are nowadays. We have become too used to seeing people who are overweight now and thinking it’s the norm, when it shouldn’t be. I get told I’m too thin all the time and I’m a size 10 which I find very annoying when I’m clearly NOT too thin, I’m just not overweight.

To answer some pp's, I was not logged in (did not have an account), had looked at nothing other than men's clothing (not underwear) and, just as BitOutOfPractice found, got this list of suggestions. I just found it rather odd and having seen the male models, thought there was a bit of a discrepancy between the way they projected male and female images.

This is far from all I have to worry about to other pp's, I just found it a bit off and wondered if others would feel the same. Didn't realise I had to post all my other problems before I was allowed to pose a question in AIBU!

thought there was a bit of a discrepancy between the way they projected male and female images
But you said you didn't look at male underwear so how can you compare?

The girls look slim, what's wrong with that? It's a good image to aspire to. Nothing like the very skinny girls we used to see on the catwalk.

As others have said, it's amazing how the internet links your profiles nowadays!

They all wear a size 10 as standard so how is that underweight?
Underage for... what?!
Yes yabu and weird

irregular

"I don't know, this looks awfully thin to me:
www.jackwills.com/walworth-heritage-bralet-100012816009.html"

Some people really have lost sight of what a healthy weight is, then. That model isn't "awfully thin"; she's simply a slim, healthy looking young girl/woman.

Irregular
I didn't think the gurl/ young woman looked thin in your link. She looked like the female teenagers that I work with and also similar to bith my son's girlfriends.
None if them seem underweight or have an eating disorder.

It's weird to get female suggestions when looking for male stuff but the models ar like all models, slim. They don't look particularly underweight or under age. Models usually start in their teens anyway.

I just tried going on the JW site. First I put a men's hoodie in my basket. The 'You may also like' items were more men's hoodies. Then I put some men's underwear in my basket. The 'You may also like' items this time were women's hoodies.

I don't think there's anything particularly untoward going on, apart from their rip-off of 1990s Calvin Klein design pants.

We've really lost sight of what a 'normal' weight looks like if someone can see these pictures and think the models are underweight. They all look very healthy.

As for underage, they look about 20, but even if they weren't it's a store that's primarily marketed to teenagers, so I'm not sure what's supposed to be so bad about having actual teenagers modelling products designed for teenagers.

Size 10 at 5 ft 10 is very slender. It’s the equivalent of being a size 4-6 at 5 ft 6. The people saying it’s normal are wrong - those sizes aren’t ‘normal’, or ‘average’. They are very small.

An average size at that height for a non-fat person would be a 12-14.

I disagree Raving, particularly young women.

Raving roo, I completely disagree. Entirely depends on the person. I am 5ft tall and at 8st, bmi of 23ish I am a size 6. My minimum healthy weight is over a stone lighter than this so even as an adult I would be considered healthy in a size 4.

Could people please remember that NOBODY should have to put up with negative weight comments whether you are a size 2 or a size 22. All this perfect size thing has to stop, we are all different height, shapes, boob size etc.. nobody has the right to say anyone is too skinny or that a specific size is the correct size to be.