AIBU to question Snag Tights using very plus-size models?

[DallazMajor]

Snag Tights have women who are morbidly obese modelling their products.

AIBU to think that this isn’t ok?

I don't mind seeing males modelling their tights either, as long as it isn't the kink stuff. They have one guy who wears their tights with kilts when he's LARPing. What's wrong with that? If men want to wear tights, they should go for it.

However do you cope when you have to see "very plus-size" women out and about in every day life? Gasp.

This is a great as for Snag. Thanks everyone for inspiring me to go there and load up.

Snag specifically cater to plus size women.

Not true.

Their sizing starts at a UK 4. But in MN land where "we've lost sight of what a healthy weight is", size 4 is positively gargantuan.

I thought there were rules about not using models with an unhealthy low weight, so a particular BMI

I dont know why it doesnt apply at the other end.

This is totally the point. Agree.

They shouldn't be allowed outside at all. We wouldn't want the rest of the world to be subjected to them.

So a larger woman shouldn’t be allowed to see what their products look like on a body like hers. Got it.

I want to see the clothing modeled on bodies of the sizes offered. Brands that do this get my business.

Brands that are size inclusive and not just in a we scale up the pattern without rethinking proportions will continue to get my business, even as I lose weight with WLI. I have rebought some
of my favorite items in smaller sizes from the same companies that made the effort to make me clothing that actually fit when I had fewer choices. I’m not buying much because I am continuing to lose weight, but they will continue to have my loyalty at any size.

Because somebody very small will be able to find tights to fit them somewhere (and snag also have images of very small sized models). Somebody larger won't - and after many years of the generic XL sometimes being size 10, sometimes 14 and sometimes 16 only if one is under 5 foot tall - or with a rise that barely covers the hip bones - it's useful to be able to see straight away that a pair of tights in the particular size won't stop below the section overhang and cause blistering, but will go over a larger abdomen. It's also useful for the many MNetters who have a leg length in the top 1% of the population (those who describe having an inside leg of 38" when they're 5 foot 6, for example) as they'll be able somebody 6 foot tall is able to wear them.

It's fine when you can just click on something based upon an image of model squatting as though she's been caught short at a festival or through forced perspective has feet the size of a wheelie bin and still know without a doubt that it will fit - but that's not the case for many, many people.

They have a range of sizes of model and it’s actually quite helpful, as they also say what size they are wearing. Even when you look at a size chart or order your ‘usual size’ from sites it can sometimes be off. If I can see someone who I think looks similar proportions to me, this makes choosing a size much easier.

Also, I take great offence at the PP suggestion chub rub only affects plus size people! 🤣

Oh no, I don’t mind men wearing tights at all! It’s the men pretending to be women that I have issues with - which I consider to be a ‘kink’!!

They aren’t specifically a plus size brand and make perfectly ordinary tights, but they focus on the obese models and fetish stuff and therefore I assume I’m not their target customer. It shouldn’t be allowed to have models at either end of the weight spectrum and all this about needing to see the tights on a similar body to your own is bollocks, they’re tights! I like Heist personally. Perfect fit and don’t have to look at women’s underwear being modelled by men.

Snag are a plus size brand, they go up to a size 28 to 36 in all their items as standard, which is well beyond what a typical clothing company does. Usually for other retailers, there is a standard size range, then a limited selection of items that go up to the largest sizes. Often up to 22 or 24 but not beyond that.

But as some one adequately explained above. Tights arent tights

They fit different on different bodies

When i was bigger I used to find it helpful to see plus size bodies because often tops are shorter etc

What are the other reasons? I was thinking about buying some!

What’s your issue with it?

Depends if you’re a transphobe or not.

The company started as being size inclusive but plus size women embraced the products as they fit them well. So you advertise to your customer base.
Considering the majority of tights are not made for plus size women specifically it’s surely refreshing that they not only manufacture tights in plus sizes, but actually feature plus sized women wearing them.

I agree some of the images are not neutrally modelling tights, but bordering on plus sized soft porn..

I just want some shorts that don’t ride up for when I go to Vegas.

The ban on using small/underwweight models was not about it being more convienent to find small clothes!!

It was because it was acknowledged that those underweight models are not healthy and not a good role model for people looking at them.

The same applies to those overweight models. They're not healthy and not a good role model for those looking at them.

YABVU.

Manufacturer of plus size clothes uses plus size models, and so they should.

I didn't know such a brand existed.

Having landed on the front page and looking at the tights, this brand is a definite no from me.

So you never actually bothered to say why you didn't think it was ok?