to expect someone modelling plus size clothes to be larger than a size 0?

[marrs]

Look at this wench - how the fuck am I meant to know what this will look like on a real person? Let alone a buxom lady like myself????

www.next.co.uk/shopping/women-plus-size-collections/knitwear/2/

I am honestly sitting here trying to think of ONE adult i know who is that tiny and can't do it.

YA SOOOO NBU

@ ''Look at this wench - how the fuck am I meant to know what this will look like on a real person?''

Thank you - I can't get over the fact that right above that photo it says "plus size" !!!

Real women are thin too. Not everyone who is real has a big wobbly bum and cellulite. One of the realest people I know is a petite size six.

It states clearly next to the dress that they start at a size six. Considering that nobody aspires to eat their way into a size twenty dress size, I don't think they are being unreasonable.

you should complain to Next and see what they say!
i thinks its mental too. i'd tout Evans here for plus size models but i f*cking hate Beth 'controversial' ditto with a passion.
even gorgeous plus size models like Crystal Renn [google her, i think im in love] dont really go past the uk 14 mark.

how will it look on a size 22 person, sorry but it will probably look pants. Buxom only probably ok.

And i should know, before i lost 5 stone I was a size 22/24 so things like this, contoured lumpy and bulgy uggghhhh.

Even now as a size 16 I probably wouldn't do it to myself. Especially with loose flabby skin where big gut used to be.

Hmmm, does that mean it's available in the plus size, as well as the non plus size?

I don't know, I mean she is very slim and has a great body I think but I also think she is a real person.
You don't need to be a plus size, or any size to be real.

I accept I'm sensitive atm, and I'm normally small but I'm struggling to eat and maintain my size 6-8 body. I say body as figure is so not important to me right now.
I am shrinking and don't want to be. I have the world's worst thrush, including in my mouth and am bloated horribly because of steroids, so I look big, but have no bilk if that makes sense.

Seriously though, of course it would be good if clothes were represented properly, but they never will be (and no matter my weight, I'll always be short and there are never 5'2 models)

Or what Colditz said. Mine just came out whinier

Colditz - fair point about real women being a range of sizes.

But this is in the "plus size" section, so I feel that a big company like Next could afford to reshoot for the plus size segment of their market.

I just cannot imagine how these clothes will look on a larger person, so it feels to me that I'd be having to make a crazy leap of faith to buy it... (but then that is my shopping style!)

Look at this wench - how the fuck is she supposed to speak with lips like those?

didn't think the dress was that tight kickassangel

tis her lips that concern me - they def don't look natural

Sorry, but that dress would look hideous on anything bigger than a size 12/14. And with my saddlebags? No way!
Agree Next should be photographing their plus sizes on bigger models. And selling more appropriate clothes (mid-thigh clingy dresses not great on the larger lady)

aye, that's a massively unflattering style, don't do it!

If you are bigger than a size 12 you will look like the Channel Tunnel in this dress!

Perhaps it comes with eight months supply of meal replacements to ensure you look like the picture in it.....eventually?

She might be a size 20 really and the dress is that flattering it makes her look a size 6!

Maybe I could squeeze my size 14, postnatal baby body into that and look like a size 0?

Then again, maybe not

YANBU at all, if a company or designer has plus size clothes than they should dame will use plus size models, how the hell is a person to know how it would look on a curvey woman fgs

I didn't notice a round pool of fat around the bottom of the dress so I think it's probably not that tight geekoftheweek! If it was, it'd be like those satan knickers control girdles which gradually roll up like a swiss roll leaving your both naked and uncomfortable.

That was exactly my point to Mary Portas yesterday (not that she answered -- though I still love her).

When will stores stop thinking that "plus size" ranges can just be upsized from the size 6+ ranges?

Next / M&S etc seem to think that what looks good on a size 10-12 will look great on a 20 but it just needs more material.

Evans seem to think that all a size 20 wants is a tent masquerading as a t-shirt.

I am large of nork and there is no way I would wear a shapeless t-shirt from Evans, nor would I think I looked good in a dress from Next modelled by a size 6, just because it was in my size.

When will designers realise that us "curvier" ladies need clothes designed for us? I have a small arse but a wobbly stomach and huge boobs.

I therefore do not want something that stops on my hips, or has spaghetti straps.

Nor do I want to live in tunics and leggings.

Coldtitz this is PLUS size clothing not petit clothing, so therefore should be modeled on plus size women.

@ whomovedmychocolate

Found it difficult totype your name as i am on a diet! The threat of satans knickers may just give me more motivation

The thing is, if the model was a plus size (like myself at a size 22 ) then it would just look awful and nobody would buy it! So it's all about marketing and slim people do tend to look better in clothes so why wouldn't they use them to model the clothes? Of course, if Next, or any other retailer, would like to use my lardy arse to advertise their range I would gladly help out!

as with big bad mummy, I have big boobs 38dd, size 18 on top,
small ish back side a size 13!
A problem for me personally

And as with LisaD1, come an help out too

But having said that even when I was a size 6/8 none of the bloody clothes fitted properly. I want clothes designed for short-arse apples with big knockers please.

And I agree that a plus size website/section of website ought to display their clothes on women who are not teeny-tiny.

Ill come and help out, too that should be....