Will there be a return of extreme thinness in fashion and pop culture?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

Just musing really. I love the nineties look that's around at the moment (have such nostalgia!) but remembering that the nineties brought us the heroin chic look, and a general trend for rather extreme thinness, and arguments in the fashion world about how thin was too thin when it came to who could do runway shows. Followed by the size zero trend in the early 2000s. There did seem to be a time when there was no such thing as 'too thin'. To my mind, models look much healthier nowadays.

Will body positivity, and a move towards talking more openly about mental illness, mean that we don't see a return of the more extreme side of nineties fashion?

I don't think so, not to that degree

Fat will only be desirable in a global famine where only the wealthy will have enough to eat.

I hope not. I hope for the middle ground of peak Cindy Crawford and Helena Christensen. I think this absurd trend for giant butts is just as damaging as size 0 yearnings. Demand for BBL surgeries has gone through the roof, and the death rates from that procedure are unacceptably high.

Fair enough. Who wants to look at pictures of fatties?

@HalfGirlHalfCake

Fair enough. Who wants to look at pictures of fatties?

Probably same amount of people who want to look at unhealthy skinny ones when i was young. I remember some looked ill. There is slim and there is ill looking. Like there is curvy and there is obese. Agree with pp that extremes aren't nice either way.

Kinda wish women’s body shapes weren’t a matter of fashion.

12-14 is not "hugely"overweight

It is in M and S sizes on someone who's 5 ft 1.
It's a healthy weight in Topshop sizes on someone who's 5 ft 8.

I am currently 30 weeks pregnant and have gained 2 stone from my previous average weight, which was 9.5 stone, 5 ft 5. I am still wearing non maternity size 10 clothes from some of the more generous brands. My size 12 jeans from new look haven't fitted for months.

@MissBaskinIfYoureNasty

Yes I think so. I also think the "body positive" promotion of extreme obesity will be short lived. Literally. These super plus size influences will not have long healthy lives and I think people will be put off by that. It's not going to be so positive and instagrammable when knees and hips start going and mobility becomes a problem.

Covid has highlighted how being very overweight IS unhealthy. Theres a reason why people of all ages with a bmi of 40 and over are being called for vaccinations ahead of others. The fat acceptance influencers are strangely quiet about it. I suppose they can't argue with facts.

Lol at sellotaping biscuits to your forearm

As long as at least one of the Kardashians is in the public eye and under 40, I expect not.

Don’t worry. Fat bashing will always be fashionable.

Dear GOD let's hope not!