Is this irresponsible of Boden or am I being over sensitive?

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as the mother of a child with anorexia. This kind of model being used by Biden is irresponsible

The only explanation for you thinking I didn’t understand that your old clothes would be a bigger size, surely? What’s to misunderstand otherwise.
To be clear. I don’t believe in vanity sozing. The clothes I wear don't support the idea.

No. What 8m saying is my clothes from decades ago are the same size as those I buy now. That poster thought I didn’t understand that. The only other thing she could have thought was that I am buying smaller size clothes because my others have stretched. I have clothes in my size from decades ago. I buy the same size now.

She just looks naturally thin to me.

she has curve to her limbs and she has a bust. Her face looks healthy too.

Have to have a range of sizes? Since when? The vast majority of models are thin.

And yet I haven’t changed the labelled size I buy clothes or changed weight…

Sorry to be the bearer of facts but it's you that has got bigger... You cannot deny that UK women's clothes sizes have changed in the last 30 years - it is a fact.

I think she looks ok, she is on the thin side but lots of girls look like this and for me I am happy to see a range of models in different shapes and sizes.

That's very unusual. As a teenager in the early 90s I'd wear a 10 or a 12 depending on the shop. These days often a size 8 is too big, some shops more than others.

Actually, that would be my main complaint with this advert. A lot of Boden's clothes are massive, they wouldn't actually fit the models they use. I bought a load of things last year and most of it had to go back as it was too big.

You don’t seem to realise what vanity sizing is. What would my old clothes be bigger?! They can’t magically change size.

Vanity sizing is clothing retailers changing sizes like 8, 10, 12 etc to match up to different measurements. It has nothing to do with your current clothes in wardrobes

I hate to break it to you but clothes have changed size label wise.

You can literally check this by looking at the sizes in inches on clothes made around pre 2004 ish

If all their models looked like that, then maybe. But they don’t. It is okay for some people to be skinny.

Looking at other photos of this model she is actually just tall and very slim - bit like the Princess of Wales. However in this photo she looks a lot thinner than in the others - makes me wonder if they doctored it. If so that is really not on and totally unnecessary as she is the sort of beautiful model that would look good in a bin bag.

Mine have always protruded. My mother would tap on them when I was a teen and ask me if I was anorexic and in the same breath ask why I didn’t have a six pack. I was healthy, athletic, did dance classes and close to a UK 12 then.

Mine protrude more than the blond model posted. That’s just how I’m made

That’s a naturally slim person, looks healthy.

I'm sorry that your daughter has anorexia. I looked that slim aged 8-15 and wasn't anorexic. I think if all clothes models are as thin as that it is irresponsible, but if there's a variety of body shapes then it's representative and good for children to see a mix of body shapes. I grew up being called stick and shamed for my flat chest during the peak of the wonderbra.

I hope your daughter is doing well.

Okay need need to labour the point on collar bones.

I think all the models look too thin and they are not representative of the models Boden used to use.

I've bought from them for years- maybe 30 years- and this 'look' is not the norm for them.

Their demography is women 35+ not teens.

She doesnt look remotely unhealthy and no, showing a slim model isnt irresponsible.

Fortunately, I don't think Boden is the go-to fashion fix for teenage girls, so you're probably alright.

But £45 for a plain, oddly-cut t-shirt is the unreasonable part.

The info underneath says she is 5 foot 9 and wearing a size 8. Bear in mind they also sell a size 6 and size 4. The photo does make her look a bit ‘too’ thin- but I think it’s either the angle or has been photoshopped. That in itself is an issue through- I don’t think it’s a good look (albeit the model herself looks slim but healthy in other photos).

DD is 5'8 and a size 6. Normal for some builds.

Idk whether that is a man or a woman but they've been artificially stretched by a fairly crap picture editor. Their arm looks distortedly thin because of how it's bent. And maybe also dodgy edit.

Surely young girls with anorexia would be less likely to be looking at boden than catwalk fashion where they're all stick thin. Everyone in Hollywood is stick thin now cos ozempic.

I’ve noticed this too, I recently picked up a vintage St Michael skirt in a size 12, waist 25 inches. A 25 inch waist is a size 6 in M&S nowadays.

It is worrying how many people can't see that the photo has obviously been manipulated.