to not want all models to look like 'real' women?

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Just that really. I am much more likely to buy clothing if the model looks like looks slim. I don't care for the current thing of showing clothes (aside from specifically for plus sized ofc) on fat people. It's not as attractive.
I am a thin person but have been fat by the way.

@Waxonwaxoff0

Totally agree with you. Thin privilege as a concept is nonsense. I've been a size 8-10 my whole life and had so many silly comments like this, as well as the "real woman" crap. It starts to grate after almost 2 decades of it!

YABU and selfish IMO. Why should we all have to see just one type of model? I want to see all types, after all, there are all shapes and sizes of woman out there and none are more important that any others, OP, not even you.

Absolutely. A lot of overweight people don't want to accept that it's their own fault they've got that way and blame thin women for it.

I think some clothes would actually look better on models with a more ‘average’ shape rather than the super-skinny.

i have very occasionally found an item of clothing shown by models of multiple sizes like someone suggested. I love when I find that. It shows what the clothes look like on a variety of sizes and body shapes.

I want to see a mixture, short, tall etc etc but I’d also like to see more with things like scars, birthmarks, colostomy bags etc to try and just normalise these things for the younger generation.

I am fat. Why the hell would would I want to see plus size clothes on slim girls? I want to see my kind of clothes on bodies like mine so I can see how it fits.

And for slim sizes, I would expect a slimmer person to model these.

What is wrong with catering for the market? No one looks exactly the same shape or size so why should we not reflect that in our clothes?

You are unreasonable. All women are 'real women'.

I don't find it particularly helpful to see it on someone my size, because there is much more to how it looks on someone else than just size. Some size 12 women have very slim hips, but I am a size 12 pear shape, so the same size trousers would look totally different on me.

I’m not thin or fat but I have a very naturally slim friend and I’ve seen her get 10 times the vile comments another (overweight) friend gets.

This will inevitably descend into another tedious body shaming thread, with mention of real women and the rest.

I know one shop where each advert shows the same dress on both a size 8 model and a size 18 model. Obviously the same dress looks very different. It’s useful to get an idea of which figure it best flatters: some cuts hide curvy hips, others flatter a small bust.

Only showing anorexic thin models promotes an unhealthy ideal of what women should look like and is bad for women’s mental health, particularly teens.

YABVU. And I don’t believe that seeing a dress on an overweight model makes you not buy a dress you’d otherwise have bought.

‘I’m not a real woman, I’m 3 owls in an overcoat’

I find it incredibly off putting if a brand use very tall, thin and very obviously young models. I think this particularly odd if the brand is aimed at older women. How the hell can a women of average height and dress size work out how something will look or where the length might sit. Drives me nuts.

I don’t like it purely because it’s manipulative marketing for woke points. What’s wrong with using ‘normal’ size 14 models? Or allowing you to choose your nearest clothes size on the website (Good American does this and it’s really useful)

George at asda do this, I think it should catch on everywhere.

I think the problem is that it is one extreme to the other. When do they ever show a size 12 model? It's either a size 6 or a 26 and neither is particularly realistic.

Like many other posters I'd like to see more "middle of the road" models. Everything seems to be super skinny or very plus size (around a 20) I'm a UK 12-14 and don't see models or pictures of clothes in my size represented anywhere.

I know what you mean, but I do like it when brands put different sized models in each thing, just makes it easier to pick. Though the plus sized models are never like me, short, belly and stumpy legs. They are a tonned, fit and tall size sixteen!

In The Style show the same outfits on a variety of sizes. Much nicer to see what things will actually look like on me, rather than on a size 8 body.

That dress wouldn’t look good on anybody!

Only showing anorexic thin models promotes an unhealthy ideal of what women should look like and is bad for women’s mental health, particularly teens.

What's bad for mental health is calling people anorexic @Lavenderlast. 'Particularly teens', as you admit. There's always one person who has to go there.

The only models I see are size 6-8 or plus size. For us 12s and 14s, we have basically no representation. I want to see how a dress looks like on a woman my size, as everyone does.
What I do like however is I do see more lingerie models with bigger boobs modelling bras which I like - though I'm a size 12 I'm an E cup and sooo many bras look lovely on smaller busts and look completely ridiculous on us bigger boobed women so it's good to be able to see how they will actually look.
I hate the term 'real' woman to be honest. A size 6 woman is every bit as real as a size 22 woman and vice versa. It's a good idea to see clothes on all different shapes and sizes.

It’s ‘othering’, and also just rude when people use the phrase ‘real women’ to mean anyone is who is overweight. Every woman is real strangely enough, and it’s very real and normal to be a healthy weight, and to have to make effort to maintain a healthy weight. The few people who are naturally slim and the many people who work to be a be a healthy weight don’t deserve the implication that they are not real.

Slim privilege is not a thing.

I had an advert on FB the other day from Good American, the jeans brand from Khloe Kardashian. I liked the fact that you could choose what model images you wanted to see - gives a much better idea of what the product would look like!