I can't wait for the big butt fashion to be over.

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I'm more 'straight up and down', and slightly apple when carrying a few extra pounds, so the current trend for bottom-heavy hourglass figures is totally unobtainable for me.

I'll be glad when it's over, selfishly!

I'll also be glad to see the back of the massive lips with tiny pointy chins.

Aibu to expect the trend to die soon?

For me as some pp have mentioned, it's an annoying trend because it's a very clear example of how it always takes a white person doing something that comes to black people naturally/ or what is trendy amongst black communities, for it to be acknowledged.

Whenever people talk about big bottoms they only ever seem to mention white women such as JLo and Kim Kardashian. They're attributing Kim Kardashian to making wearing wigs in the way you wear clothes normal, when it's just something she copied from black culture. But whatever, appropriation always happen to black people (think Elvis Presley making money from music genre and style he stole from black American musicians).

Yabu to pick on this body trend though. Every phase brings a new trend but I prefer this body trend to the anorexic one that was in fashion when I was a teen (think Nicole Richie and Kate Moss thinspo). At least other than surgery the big bum/ lip trend encourages women to carry healthy and natural weight.

@Ginfordinner @TinyMystery

Where are you buying these pear-friendly jeans and trousers from? Shops still cut very much to the apple shape, in my experience.

M and S, Matalan and White Stuff jeggings.

A-men! I’m 5’7 and 8.5 stone. I’m long and lean and any extra weight goes on my stomach and boobs, so I prefer to stay at this weight and be 32D-26-33.

I squat about 140 pounds at the gym—still have a microscopic arse!

Why do people feel pressured by TV celebs? As long as you aren’t surrounded by it in real life ?

I’m thankful having a big bum is finally a good thing
Me too, I've no a tiny bum, I like the big bum phase rather than skinny envy.
The clothes suit most frames, I am just grateful the maternity shape top died, tight on chest with loads of material draped for tummy cover.

The current fashions do concern me. Not so much the big bum thing, but the general level of fakery and grooming required to achieve the current look.

We’ve got a bunch of new women in work this week. They’re all lovely women, very attractive and, more importantly, experienced, university-educated professionals. So why do they feel the need to wear hair extensions, fake eyelashes, fake nails, fake tan, lip fillers and full night-out level makeup to work? How do they even find the time?

Each to their own and I would never judge or criticise a woman’s choices in this respect. But what concerns me is the context in which those choices are being made, and the pressure some women must feel to look like they’ve been photoshopped all the time.

Kathy Burke put it quite well in her recent documentary. She said it’s not enough for young women to be attractive nowadays - they’re have to be stunning. That’s not a fair or realistic expectation and I worry about the mindset it reflects.

I'm just generally in horror of the fact that body shapes go in and out of fashion as though your actual body is only a disposable fashion object. It's a recipe for self hatred and body dysmorphia.

Regardless of trends certain body types have always and most likely will always be seen as ideal. It's generally an hourglass with a .7 hip & bust to waist ratio. But tbh, imo the best body I desire is a body that is as healthy as it can be and can do the things I want and need it to do for as long as possible. And, tbh, I want it to do quite a lot for me for the next 50+ years, so I'm walking a tightrope between taking really good care of it and pushing it to do super fun, slightly dangerous, things for as long as it can.

As a teen I remember HATING having large hips, butt, boobs etc- I would measure myself on a daily basis. Tbh I was probably on the verge of an eating disorder because at that time large hips were definitely not considered attractive. (Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan were my body "role models")

Despite being slim I have accepted my body shape now but it wasn't easy being "curvy" around girls only just going through puberty. Hopefully, it's easier for girls with similar proportions now.

Lip fillers, your experiences? http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/styleandd_beauty/3685407-Lip-fillers-your-experiences

MASSIVE SIGH

That's a current thread in active

One of the posters has lips that look far too over swollen. And other posters are telling her how fab they look

It's the casual way in which people are all 'yeah I had x amount of mls' urgh it's not cool to normalise this.

I don’t even need to look at the thread to know they don’t look fab 😒. I’m conflicted on this because 99.9% of the time I honestly believe women should do what they want to look and feel how they want to. Wear more makeup than Jeffree Star or none, get your hair done every day or cut it once a year with the kitchen scissors, wear head to toe Gucci or 20 year old leggings.

When it comes to filling random bits of your body with gloopy stuff to make it a different shape though, nothing will ever convince me it looks nice. I don’t actually judge the person doing it (mainly because I don’t think there’s a “type” of person that does it) but I just think it looks so weird.

@FartnissEverbeans it’s incredibly hypocritical to say We’ve got a bunch of new women in work this week. They’re all lovely women, very attractive and, more importantly, experienced, university-educated professionals. So why do they feel the need to wear hair extensions, fake eyelashes, fake nails, fake tan, lip fillers and full night-out level makeup to work? How do they even find the time? and then say you’re not judging or criticising. Of course you are. You are snarkily implying that intelligent women should be filling their heads, and their free time, with far worthier pursuits than their hair and makeup, or (even more likely) you are insinuating that they didn’t get the jobs for their brains but for their looks.

Kim K’s arse full of silicon or whatever, going to look a real mess in 20+ years time.

I hadn’t noticed clothes have changed to fit big bums. A size is a size isn’t it?

When I was in my 20s in the 90s big bums were not fashionable. Friends was in its prime and the Rachel and Monica characters bodies seemed desirable. I was only an 8-10 and they made my slightly pear-shaped figure seem big. Now I watch Friends and see those characters as extremely underweight and that the actresses have admitted to starving themselves at that time. I for one as a mother of teen girls am glad to see bigger bodies in the public eye.

Don’t buy in to this bullshit ‘trends in women’s body types’ stuff. It’s dreadful, poisonous, misogynistic fashion industry crap!

I’ve always had a big bum. I refuse to buy in to this ridiculous idea that I wasn’t fashionable 15 years ago but now I’m all the rage. How reductive and ridiculous.

Aren't most things in fashion all the time though just depending on the cycle you move in, including the media you access ? The trends for various surgeries may will truly exist but I don't come across it. I don't see the shows, I doubt know anyone who does this, etc. If you don't like something why follow the people who espouse it?

I’m a size 8 all over but have always had a big bun used to be teased for it, it was my JLo and yes before that my lovely family used to say I had a black woman’s bum (that’s a while other thread). Years of having of buy size 10/12 years so they go over my bum then a belt as they gape at the waist. In fact I did it last week, size 10 jeans size 8 tops. I’ve never been able to wear sleek dresses as my hips stick out although about 10 years ago I found 50 style flare dresses they were like the holy grail, all nipped in at the waist then flared out hid my hips.

My 25 year old niece has hair extensions, lip fillers, boob job (her chest looks like one big mono boob now overtakes everything) oh and a nose job) everything she does is for insta and Facebook every photo is filtered, then I see her and she looks nothing like it. It’s all fake.

My 15yo DD asked me the other day Mum what’s your favourite part of your body, I said my brain, she said Mum!!!

I'd love a big old bum to fill my jeans.

You and I both dear.

My almost 17year old niece is very 'hipster' (is that still the word?) very cool looking, a beauty. She is the opposite, she's very slender and tall. Minimal make up and likes all the fair trade / eco stuff. I couldn't see her wanting lip or bottom fillers! It's been all about getting a bronzed tan this summer though.

I hate anything overly fake. Just can’t see the attraction. The arse thing could be portrayed as a positive trend by a good PR agent but it really isn’t a celebration of the big butt Afro Caribbean culture. It’s like big boobs and the Jordan era.

Men are supposed to be attracted to them but big boobs normally means bigger body. Naturally thin women with big boobs are very rare and thin women with big boobs and big butts even more so the trend is basically plastic surgery. It’s not like fat women with big tits and arses are in vogue