How 'thin' for fashion

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Wondering how thin is thin (bear with me!)

On the Expensive thread there is reference to thin people looking fab in jeans and trainers, I recently came across reverence to Ines de la Fressance being less than BMI 18 (!!) etc

Now I know poeple vary in build and how they carry weight, but realistically, what ballpark of 'thin' do we need to be to look good in the majority of clothes.

For what it is worth, I'm 5ft 6, extreme pear shaped, BMI 21.6 and although I look reasonably good, i think my legs and arse look big in trousers.

For me my best is at 22 BMI, which is about 9.7 stone. I'm 5'4" but broad shoulders and big boobs. I can drop down to 9st and still look well, but any less than that and I look really gaunt and unhealthy.

At the moment I am very porky so I'd settle for anywhere within the normal BMI range!

For me, I think I look and, realistically, feel best around a BMI of 20.5 (height 169cm) - although I am currently a BMI of 22, and despite how much I despise my body at the moment (and it really does make my skin crawl), I get a lot more compliments recently to tell me I look well*.

*Note - people don't just randomly tell me this. I am in recovery from severe anorexia, and spent 5 months in hospital a few years back. So I also know that below a BMI of 17.5ish, I started to look worse. Personally I was happy with my BMI around 16, but looking back on photos now, there is definitely such a thing as too thin, and I just looked like a horse tbh. I don't know how, but I did.

I think it will vary for people. Somewhere around a BMI of 19-23 seems most popular (for 'real' people, not fashion models), but some will of course have more naturally petite builds or larger builds or more muscle etc and be completely different!

I aspire to be 8.5st because I think it would show is committed to me- ie a phase of exercising and eating well
Fwiw that 1 stone loss
I think clothes look better on thin- not gaunt but thin people

I agree with PP saying that it's shape not size that fits with current fashion. I am 5ft7, 54kg but go in and out (25" waist, 37" hips). Size 8/10 most places but have given up on fashion - it never fits unless it's super stretchy when I size down to have it fit at the waist.

Am increasingly going vintage - the proportions just fit me better and were a bit more forgiving to curves.