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.

People don't purposely overeat to become obese as a goal. People do purposely undereat to become thin as a goal. That's why it's OK to show obese models, but banned to show underweight models. Stop being dense.

As a smaller person I wouldn’t be shopping at snag. However, I was looking at a certain style of jeans in a high st shop recently and all the models wearing them were plus size- for context Im a size 8-10 so didn’t buy them as wasn’t able to see what they’d look like on my size. I have no idea why they don’t have more than one model per item tbh

I buy snag tights and I'm 6ft and size 12. They definitely show a range of model sizes.

You could say the same about heightism. Most models are quite tall and I just wouldn’t buy any dress from them, being 5 foot.

Exhibit A for people who’ve said no…

https://snagtights.com/cdn/shop/products/switch-body-harness-snag-10.png?v=1720583928

Fact: some people are obese. It's hard to lose weight, some people won't be able to. They still need clothes! and they are as entitled to be colourful and stylish and live their best life as thin people.

For all their faults, Snag's USP is decent tights in lots of colours going up to larger sizes. So they are obviously going to (mostly) use larger models to inspire their customers.

I'm a bit overweight and it's great to see clothes modelled even on a midsize person to get an idea of how they might look, because 99+% of fashion images are of standard tall, thin models who look like almost none of us.

OP if you are slim, you are just getting the reverse of what overweight people experience ALL THE TIME when shopping. If we wrote off every shop where the models didn't look like us then the choice would be tiny. So we just get on regardless.

My issue with Snag is the Spicy Snag Facebook page, where fetishists are embraced and applauded.

I’m very short and not overweight but this wouldn’t bother me at all. Usually it’s the complete opposite, women who are borderline underweight and very tall, even for petite sized clothing which I have to buy because of my height. It doesn’t stop me ordering clothes because I have an imagination and can imagine the clothes on me without a model who looks exactly like me. And I can send the clothes back if I don’t like them. I just get smug vibes off your post for some reason.

You seriously can't see a connection between centuries of the subjugation of women and the intense debate around how they present themselves to the world? I want to use laughing emojis but I think that would be rude.

I just looked looked at Brandy Melville (I'd never heard of them) but they only seem to sell clothes in a size small? (What is that about??)

You're complaining about Snag not using small models whilst also shopping at a place that doesn't even cater to any other size? Bit hypocritical

If overweight women had decided they couldn't buy clothes because none of the models represented their size, there would have been a lot of naked people wandering around these last few decades. As has been mentioned, even plus size models are generally relatively slim compared to many of the target audience of plus size shops. Very few people get to see what they would look like in the clothing without trying it on. I used to be a pear shape up until my mid forties and not once did I see a single model who looked anything like me, even though I'm a decent height and was very slim. There is still nobody representing me, despite the fact that I have changed fruits, from pear to apple and am definitely overweight😅

No. Underweight body representation causes issues and puts pressure on people to be that weight and conform! I know several people who were/are anorexic!

I doubt anyone looks at those pictures and delights in wanting to eat all and sundry to look like that!

One of my friends, who is a size 6-8 put a happy new year post up last night and boo hooed about how fat she was and that she was looking forward to losing weight in the new year. I sometimes wonder what people think about people who are overweight if they think being a size 8 means they need to lose weight!

I can’t stand Snag. I’m not sure why I seem to get constant adverts for them. Their tights and clothing are shit. Despite their tag line and supposed USP being about clothes that fit, the stuff I got from them did not fit at all and was made of horrible fabric. And it had cost me £10 in delivery and return fees to find this out.

there is definitely a fetishy element too. If you compare the style of photography/video to say, Bravissimo (who I do use) it is very much more provocative.

Probably not one for the school run.

Ok so 98% of all women's clothing brands only show their clothes on thin models (if they even offer larger sizes, which is frequently not the case) but yeah, let's complain about this one not doing the same.

Actually this is a bit disingenuous. The brand business model is an inclusion led model where all its designs are based on size 20-22 models.

Does not the fact that all the sizes other than size 4 are sold out not tell you who their marketing demographic is?

What you are complaining about is comparable to going into steakhouse restaurant and complaining that there is only one vegan option on the menu.

Of course it’s not banned! It’s fucking everywhere! Or are you also saying that all fashion websites should feature obese models as well as skinny ones? No didn’t think you were.

"We exist to serve the community who are otherwise excluded by the fashion industry"
This is their published mission statement, which makes the op look ridiculous for neither reading it nor caring about it, as ridiculous as you would be if you got on a flight to Malaga and complained about them not taking you to Ibiza.
Or in other words, you are a problem customer. It's nothing to do with weight or build and everything to do with being a grabby consumer who doesn't properly research where they consider shopping.

I might be cynical and completely wrong but the thought that came into my mind was this would a good marketing ploy! I’m on the website looking and stuff and thinking wow I could wear that, I don’t think this is genuine I’m sorry if it is x

If I was looking for a swim dress it wouldn’t occur to me to search for it on Snag which is where it look like these pictures are from and I’m a size 14, I love their tights (that really do never fall down!) but I don’t buy clothing from there because I, as an average ish size have so many shops to choose from
You have so many choices of where to shop from literally 100’s of places, why would you choose to look on a brand know for their plus sizes?
My guess is you have a problem with the company itself, the size of the models or their ethos…

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2j1322w9o

That makes no sense. Plus sized women portrayed attractively messages that someone with a plus sized body can look good and wear nice clothes. It doesn't give any message at all about health and obesity.
Seeing a plus size woman looking good doesn't give you a mind wipe about the dangers of obesity.

I don’t believe for a minute that the OP is ex obese.

I am. I went from 120kg to 65kg.

Not in a million years would I complain about this because for the other 99% of my life I’ve tried to find websites that included overweight and obese models to see what the clothes might look like on me.

Surely you realise though that this is the standard experience of most women on most websites, the model is rarely in your size so you buy it and try it. You're just so spoilt by the norm of slim women modelling clothes that you haven't realised the imbalance; if you were a larger woman previously surely you realise every site you go on is full of slim women? I would also prefer a variety of models but unfortunately most retailers don't bother, so calling out one site for using larger models is a bit childish.