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quick rant about next and there super skinny models

17 replies

mothersmilk · 06/10/2010 19:40

its not that they are just painfull to look at. But i just dont get it... they are all sooooo small!!! so why when i a size 6 go and try there stuff on does it never bloody fit because its too bloody big Angry they must either really touch up photos(and the models arnt actaully that small) or all the models clothes a specially made, SUPER SMALL!! AAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
feeling better now Grin

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miche8 · 06/10/2010 22:05

yes the super tall blond one looks so thin and as though they stretched her. I think quite a few of the clothes look bad on the models, big and baggy.

Every year i like next a little less, this year i've only bought a couple of things for the kids and nothing for myself.

Sanesometimes1 · 06/10/2010 23:38

totally agree with op every year their size 6 and 8 gets bigger and bigger - so unfair for us smallies !

Ladyem · 07/10/2010 10:57

I think your anger is misplaced and it's not really the models you are mad at, but the sizing in Next. I don't think the models look super skinny, I think we are just getting used to seeing bigger people these days. But I do agree that Next sizing is rubbish!! My skinny jeans fall down and bag round the ankles!!

And they probably 'tweak' the clothes, though to make them fit better in the pictures. Have you noticed that the boots in the pictures all fit the models slim legs, yet in real life they are like wellies?!

Unwind · 07/10/2010 13:57

I recently went shopping for jeans - next was the only place I could get extra long size 8, so I am feeling like your anger is misplaced

I felt really annoyed, trouping around all these shops, where the models used in advertising, were plainly taller and scrawnier than me, yet I couldn't find anything to fit.

The jeans in Next were rubbish, but they did have my size.

BooBooGlass · 07/10/2010 14:01

I haven't seen the catalogue htis year but Iremember last season a whole bunch of people complained. It seems that haven't listened which is sad. Next sizing is enormous, I agree, but the sizes of the models in the last catalogue was quite grotesque.

nemofish · 07/10/2010 15:34

yy BooBooGlass, I remember one particular model in last years summer catalogue who, to be honest, did look on the edge of starvation, and I mean that literally. I have frequently said to dh, look at this, doesn't this model look weird / odd / ill / deformed?!

Very odd seen as though the average woman just isn't a size 4 / 6 and over 6 feet tall... Hmm

Ladyem · 08/10/2010 08:43

OK, I know I should step away from this, but it really gets my goat when there are people who call tall thin women look weird/odd/ill/deformed/grotesque. Nice. Makes us feel great.

She probably wouldn't be a size 4/6, either. She's probably a size 8 but very tall. I'm 7st 10lbs and 5' 10" and I'm only a size 8, so she'd have to be about 6 stone to be that size. BTW I'm not ill or deformed, I'm just thin. Think if it was reversed and we started calling larger ladies names like weird or grotesque. There would be an outcry. But no, It seems it's ok to call thin women as we are obviously immune to criticism.

Rant over.

Unwind · 08/10/2010 13:16

I was nicknamed 'scarecrow' in school, and my biology teacher felt it necessary to tell the class several times that I was built like a greyhound Hmm

I am sure the school would have taken it very seriously if I had said that she was built like a walrus.

BooBooGlass · 08/10/2010 13:19

To come to my own defence, the model in the previous catalogue was grotesque. I'm currently in treatment for an eating disorder and have yet to see someone in my group that thin. Yes, women certainly come in all shapes and sizes. And I wish just for once they'd show that

Ladyem · 08/10/2010 15:17

I have the previous catalogue and saw the other threads and she wasn't grotesque. She was a tall thin woman. To call another human being grotesque is appalling. Some people are that thin naturally. Not all thin people have an eating disorder. My daughter is probably destined to be nearly 6ft tall and if she takes after my side of the family will also be very thin. If anyone was to call her grotesque they would have me to answer to.

TheCrackFox · 08/10/2010 15:36

Ladyem - using your statistics you have a BMI of 15.1 which means you are seriously underweight. Have you thought about making an appointment with your GP so he/she can refer you to a dietician?

Ladyem · 08/10/2010 16:11

Yes, I do have a very low BMI and I have already seen a dietician when I was pregnant as morning sickness made me loose more weight and I had a BMI of 14. They concluded that I was just naturally like this and that my diet was fine. Also, that as I had conceived naturally and maintained the pregnancy despite my low BMI then that was the sign of a healthy woman, not one with any eating or nutrition problems. I have always been thin. My whole family are thin. I eat a normal diet, not bird-like, not pigging out, just normal. It makes no difference if I eat lots when I am on holiday, for instance, and if I loose weight through illness I go back to my normal weight as soon as I am better. I have had 2 pregnancies, both healthy and breast fed both babies. I am healthy, just thin!

Sanesometimes1 · 09/10/2010 11:52

Ladyem - so glad to see someone sticking up for the naturally thin - I am also like you eat what I want when I want bu just don't put weight on- have lost count of the number of ppl who say quite unkind things - I would never in a million years make comment to someone that was a bit on the chubby side but for some reason ppl ( especially woman) think it's perfectly ok to "slam the thin", we're getting the the stage now I think that overweight is going to be seen as the norm which in my humble opinion is just wrong wrong wrong !

Ladyem · 09/10/2010 17:05

Exactly, sanesometimes1! I have friends who are more BMI 'points' above the recommended range, than I am below it (if that makes any sense!) and no on ever comments on their weight.

snoozathon · 09/10/2010 17:54

I like Next cos I'm a size 8 there size 12 everywhere else

Unwind · 09/10/2010 18:18

They do size ridiculously big - but I'm not that fussy about what size I wear, at least next does stock stuff in long and fairly scrawny

Ladyem · 10/10/2010 17:11

Grin @ long and fairly scrawny!!

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