To think this is silly and unfair to slim women/skinnyphobic?

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I was looking at this swim dress https://snagtights.com/products/only-one-swim-dress-polka for myself. I'm a rather small woman, 45kg and 162cm tall. I usually wear a 4-8, depending on the brand.

Whereas I'm delighted to see that they make it from a 4-38, all of the several models featured in this dress and seemingly almost all on this site, are obese. This is rather odd to me, and a bit annoying as I cannot see what these items would look like on me - if some items look good on skinny women but not on obese women surely the same also applies regarding some items the other way round.

Also seems unfair to me - if underweight women cannot be models because of 'promotion of unhealthy weights' why are these women not affected as well too? Surely a size 38 is not any more healthy than a 0 or 2.

Skinny hate seems to be on the decline, but still disappointing to see the double standard.

Why?

The 90s behaviour (absolutely is)? Or the mental issues caused by a desire to be skinny?

I don't have the figures, but I lived through the 90s and can tell you how many of my friends ended up with EDs trying to be "desirable". Including two who ended up hospitalised to get nutrition in them and one who died two weeks before she turned 18 because of her ED. I'm also living through the body positivity period now, and the impact on the young women in my circle is completely not the same.

The men whining about international women's day comparison that someone made earlier is spot on.

OP maybe you can explain how you think this is an obese model?

Could you buy some, try them, and return if no good? Like we all do?!

Disingenuous nonsense....just wanting to play the poor me card...it's so hard being thin... honestly Im not falling for this. Vast vast majority of fashion retailers use slim/thin models and you know it.

I feel like I've read this kind of phrasing and felt the vibe before in a different demographic. It's something about being on a women's site and talking about being all ickle bitty small and preferring clothes that are associated with young women/girls to women. I feel like I'm observing someone's fetishism rather than reality. The whole 'i don't mind plus sizes existing' from someone who suddenly claimed to be ex-obese when the criticism hit just lacked verisimilitude. I dunno. I just feel a pattern recognition here of another group who talk like this with women about their body and women's bodies.

You are 100% trolling. The inclusion of obese women in fashion modelling is very new but you have healthily went from being obese to a size 4 after previously being convinced by said models that being obese was a healthy state? All in that short amount of time?

So the inclusion of some obese models on some websites managed to override the decades of insidious and constant messaging that being overweight to any capacity is “disgusting and unhealthy”? Very odd.

Agreed.

If you're size 4 it will look fine on you. No need to see the model.

Obese people aren't an obscenity that should be hidden from view. If you think these pictures are telling you how you should look, the source of your problem lies elsewhere.

How DARE every website not display their clothes on your exact body size ?! 😡

Obese people should all become a size 4, just like you did OP. So bloody thoughtless of them.

I'd say that most women already know that the control of women's weight has been a significant tool in the patriarchal subjugation of women for some time.

The examples you have shown really seem to be fairly bog standard - it's not as if they're unusual and unobtainable elsewhere. If you look on the sites for, say, M&S you'll find plenty of smaller size models demonstrating similar and better swimming costumes.

I'm fascinated by some of the usernames here.

Where is your outrage for the majority of clothing companies who never show their clothes on a larger body. There are hundreds of them!

Yes I noted that.
I wonder if mentionitis is profitable at all?

You are right that a swim dress on a size 6 will look very different. That’s what prompted some mainstream companies to start featuring larger women.
However since fashion is all about the dream, photos tend to be unrealistic anyway. Theres few showing swim dresses getting in and out the steps at the public pool, it’s all glamorous location shots and sun beds.

OP you say you were overweight and are now underweight. You do seem to have an unhealthy obsession with size and clothing.Sorry if I have the wrong end of the stick, obviously a post is only a snapshot.

Have you ever had any support with your body issues?

OP did well here - posted to innocently bemoan not knowing what the swimsuit would look like on her size 4 bod, and here we are with a thread full of reasons that overweight people shouldn't be allowed to be seen in clothes.
Bravo OP, didn't take long,.did it.
Reported.

That made me look at your user name, my slightly hungover self cannot cope!! 🤢🤣

I only know one person that has slimmed, from being 'obese' to a size 4 and she would come out with a similar comment, she is obsessed with talking about how people/friends/the world doesn't accept her, or are jealous of, her 'new healthy size'. It's sad as she has a blatant eating disorder. Randomly, looking at those clothing websites - which I've never heard of! - she looks like she would shop there too!

As a size 12/ medium reasonably short person, I don't think I've ever seen a model my size or shape. Yet somehow I cope.

They actually have a wide range of models including slim and disabled. But they do have a lot of larger models though because it is so hard to get an idea of how things will look on a larger body, obese people still need clothes and want to look nice!

My feelings are that you are still having issues with your weight/eating even if you aren’t obese anymore. I would stop worrying about this advert and concentrate on getting whatever help you need to get yourself back into safe place with whatever eating disorder you have.

A website for tights for fatter people isn’t normalising fat models but it does show how their products look on fat people. It is unusual to see this happen, hence why you have noticed - definitely not normalised.

I agree, it’s normalising unhealthy weight at the other end of the scale now.

I am mid size (10-12, 5ft7) and feel completely under represented - it’s either super skinny or super overweight in fashion videos, influencers, etc

Skinny shaming is still acceptable and it appears that lots of people don’t want that to stop being the case.

Fat women need clothes too.

You're being ridiculous. If you think you're suffering from "skinnyphobia" , whatever the fuck that is, because you are deliberately choosing to feel victimised by a website that caters for fat people then just put some weight back on.