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?

Tights aren't just tights. When you're tall and plus size, tights like Snags are a godsend. I wear them and it feels as if they aren't there. I don't have to stretch them to their limit to get them to be long enough for my legs and then sit properly at my waist as well. Standard tights don't offer that. And their larger sizes only come in black, brown, grey and if you're very lucky, navy.

Why shouldn't bigger women have a choice of colours and patterns in tights that actually fit and are comfortable to wear? Showing bigger women isn't telling the world 'go on, be fat, it's great!' Nobody is that stupid. But we exist and we are allowed clothes. We do not deserve to be punished with boring drab clothes for the sin of being fat.

Well aren't you lucky not to need plus sized tights then. I'm in Tunisia just now and their chub rubs are a godsend under my dresses.

I don't think it even matters. Very few people find morbid obesity something to aspire to whether we have plus size models or not

Isn’t a big part of their market ‘chub rub’? It makes perfect sense then, that they use fat models.

This. I don't see the point of skinny models advertising plus size clothes.

Used to love Snag for their great range of sizes, patterns and colours. And it is helpful to see how the tights look on a body your own size.

Went off them with their increasing pornification and hectoring tone towards anyone who disagreed.

I did buy some snag tights years ago, I was a size 10-12 and not bothered by the larger models but I am definitely bothered by the promotion of choking, the pornified images and the fetishising of fatness as well as their insistence that men can be women. I will never buy from them again. The tights weren’t even nice, tight waist elastic and dingy colours.

Same.

Their usp was the sizing for different body types. Fair enough, that is a good idea as typical tight sizing doesn’t differentiate between a short fat person and a tall thin person. You can read all that on the size page though. And with that usp there was no need to stray into fetish.

Probably because they don’t want to encourage people to see the images of somebody very underweight as “thinspiration”.
IMO, overweight models are different because it’s a very uncommon thing to look at somebody bigger than yourself and think “I really want to be that big”. It might encourage them to think “Actually I’m fine as I am and don’t need to lose weight” but it’s still very much not a desirable thing to be morbidly obese. So the two things are not comparable really.
Plus the health dangers of eating disorders like anorexia nervosa can become life threatening in a really, really short timeframe. It’s not on a parallel with obesity.

If they’re purely for obese people doesn’t it make sense that they use obese people in the advertising? If they’re not purely for obese people using overtly overweight people is usually just cheap virtue signalling and a big no from me.

I was trying to help my partner find some swimming trunks a month or so ago and came across an advert for a full range of sizes but the picture has a very overweight model. It’s was extremely unappealing and a straight no from me.

Just found their website. It clearly a straight no from anyone who isn’t a porn sick overweight trans identifying man.

Some of the poses are semi porn, or at least clearly made to look overtly sexy. I’m sure people are getting off on the morbidly obese woman bending over in her thong. You don’t need to be in that position to model the clothes.

Tell that to M&S!

I must see a different Snag to you. I saw 2 men advertising the pride tights. And other than 1 picture on the home page, nothing even remotely pornographic until I looked at the "sexy tights"

I love Snag and though I am overweight I am not porn addicted, nor trans nor a man.

I thought snag was ok until the choking women thing and since then I've avoided like the plague

What exactly is the point of your post? Do you not think fat people should wear tights?

Those models weren't used to sell tights (historically, many tights models have been tall men because their legs were longer and slimmer).

They're not selling a dream of being clad in internationally renowned multibillionaire clothing, bags and living a jet setting lifestyle, they're flogging tights. And tights need to fit - with increased weight, body proportions vary significantly, particularly in women. They're not wanting to encourage people to look like them, they're wanting people who do look like them - older, taller, shorter, larger, smaller, disabled, whatever - to see the tights and think 'oh, they look like they'll fit me, I'll pay the significantly higher cost per pair compared to something from the supermarket that might fit but probably won't and take a chance'.

The brands Freya and Panash both do swimwear in large cup and small back size combinations.

Mot liking the promotion of choking during sex doesn't make anyone a phobe of any sort.

Agree OP. I wouldn’t expect any fashion house to use size 26 models even if their clothes went up to that size.

Like any advert, surely you use it on who will look best in the item, then beyond that surely we all have a good enough imagination.

Exactly this. And I won’t buy from them for this reason.

Ugh, I didn’t know this.

I don’t find their products particularly good. I get better fitting tights on the high street and honestly think a lot of the design ones look daft. They’re also expensive, and delivery and return fees are high. The ‘customer photos’ seem to be overly sexualised compared to other brands like Bravissimo who use customer photos and influencers of different body types. I had to hide them from my social media feed as I found the fetish adjacent content a bit nauseating. I have no issue with men, transgender people or obese people modelling their clothes. In fact, that’s probably the least offensive thing about them.

I personally think fat people should only have the option of wearing a giant bin bag.

signed,

a fat person

Obesity shouldn’t be celebrated. It’s a dangerous medical condition.

I didn’t realise snag was a plus size site but irrespective we shouldn’t encourage this kind of “body positivity” it’s wrong.

Being unhealthy isn’t a vibe. I’m not fat shaming I’m not skinny myself but some of their models are clearly on a shortcut to a hospital bed.