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.

Thought everyone knew of this fact

This is true.

If you’re a 4 or a 6 it’s actually quite hard to find clothes that fit - many of the brands for women (as opposed to teen brands) are off limits as they only go down to 8, or the sizing is so generous a 6 is too big.

Agreed. I bought a put of tights from there using their size calculator and they were massively baggy and actually crap quality.
Vanity sizing to the extreme.

Yeah, no dice OP. Nice try. Went on a mini education session about lipoedema this morning, followed by a wander through the Snag website. Not only did I find a number of models who fit the disease symptoms, I also found models of all shapes and sizes with very little difference in styling between the slim and fat models. Was actually really nice to see. Snag's ethics - including a living wage for everyone working for them in the UK and vetted factories paid fairly for their products AKA no slavery/ exploitation present in the supply chain - are admirable and worth supporting.

So unless this is a reverse ad for Snag, I suggest the problem is with you. Perhaps some therapy as to why you feel hatred toward fat people existing, and daring to want clothes that look nice on them, might be helpful.

Can't edit for some reason, but just to say there's no slavery / exploitation in the process of making the clothes - supply chain of raw materials might be different and difficult to track. Regardless, the effort of vetting factories and ensuring fair pay for the work done is refreshing - if they live up to this claim Snag is doing good work in an industry rife with westerners making bank off human misery elsewhere.

Thank you to the only other person who understands what Snag is about! It started as a brand founded by a women with Lipoedema for other women with Lipoedema, as I said before and was duly ignored. Believe me as someone who is now Stage 3, getting your legs into High Street tights is nigh on impossible.

It's bad enough being disfigured while the NHS ignores you, then in extreme cases disabled while the NHS ignores you, and then be blamed for it all and offered mobility aids to deal with the disability by the same NHS that could have stopped your progression with treatment it declines to fund, without other women being offended by the few companies that understand the issues sufferers face.

OP, frankly you need to grow up a little and educate yourself about the devastating health issues others can face!

Gosh op, the larger women among us definitely won't be able to understand how it might feel to never see a body similar to ours wearing clothes and to have to use our imagination. Whatever does that feel like you poor thing?

So you're now underweight? Is that due to an eating disorder?

I've been a size 4-6 most of my life and I'm definitely not underweight. I'm under a few medical teams due to cancer and heart conditions and my BMI has never come up once to say I'm underweight. I'm naturally quite petite anyway but just because someone's a 4-6 it doesn't mean they're underweight at all.

the only time I have been underweight was when I was having cancer treatment that left me in a coma.

that being said I think it's unusual for someone who was obese to go to a size 4-6 but I don't know enough about that so many I'm being harsh.

You have many health challenges by the sound of it but yes huge weight variation is the red flag for me not clothes size.

The op gave her height and weight in the first post which puts her bmi as underweight.

BMI is outdated and non specific.

It's a pretty good tool for measuring underweight people.
People go on about it not working for them because they are so muscly or broad or what have you. This cannot be said for someone who is a good 3kg lower than the lowest point of the healthy BMI range.
OP has gone from a BMI of at least 30 to 17.

Welcome to my world. As an Asian woman, I hardly see ever clothes modelled on Asian models, so I can never see what they look like on someone with my colouring.

If this is “skinnyphobic” then all the sites (i.e most of them) which only show clothes on skinny models are “fatphobic”.

I don’t see the issue with this one site bucking the trend.

Also I am pretty sure snag tights are especially targeted at plus sized women hence their choice of models.

This!!!

Also OP - “skinnyhate” is not and never has been a thing.

Where is it banned?

I don’t believe you.

Oh it’s that easy? Thanks for sharing.

Oh this tired trope - all fat people are “lazy”…..

Yawn

I don’t even click on the links for brands like these as I just think they’re for larger people. It doesn’t bother me at all but I would think they should include thinner women in their advertising too if they do standard sizes? They must be losing out on that market I would think?

Agreed!

I think quite a few counties have laws banning using models with very low BMIs.