Just HOW skinny is the Coast model?

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Sick of size0allbonenofleshunhealthylookingmatchstick models.
At least I have boobs. And a tummy. And woobly thighs. And a large arse.

that dress is lovely

i am t hinking she must have extremely erect nipples to be holding that dress up.

It is lovely. But only a skinnyish person really.

Where do these models put their internal organs??

It is a beautiful colour. Would look shite on me.

Goat - I was assuming it was tit taped up, she's got nothing else to hold it there!

all coast dresses are strapless
lovely dresses , all strapless, i feel so naked strapless......
[personal gripe against coast]

its not just the dress. i would want to be on the french riviera/monacco with dh magically transformed into a dark handsome man in the sports car. i don't think that dress on me on a cold blowy scottish day would have quite the same magic.

That dress is lovely but there will be at least one at every wedding this summer.

I have big shoulders. All strapless items look silly on my vast plain of shoulderness

But they make nice tops with rouched fronts that hide big bellies. (When the sale is on!)

There have been several "I've bought this dress for a wedding" threads already

I'm hoping to buy this for a wedding in Lake Garda in the summer

I think I probably would make a point of not buying a Coast dress for a wedding on the assumption that there will be at least one of each dress already being worn by someone else.

(But maybe if I was going to Lake Garda that would be different )

ooh they have nice dresses and some hideous dresses

That model really looks terrible though

Do their dresses come up small or large?

i couldnt give 2 shits if i go to a wedding and someone else has the same dress

that's because you would look better than them, naily

blimey thought it was keira knightley there for a moment
lovely dress though.

yeah right mp!

She is concave.

how do they SELL the clothes, most women i know would simply think 'oh, shop for very skinny, very young girls, not for me!'

and go ELSEWHERE

As the mother of a daughter who will never be size 0 as an adult, because she will be too tall, I'm pretty sick of reading and hearing other people slagging off people because they are thin.

We don't slag off people because they are obese, but somehow it's okay to send the message that people like my daughter are somehow less than because they don't have big boobs, hips, etc.

I'm naturally not a heavy or big person.

And I still wouldn't wear a stapless dress because tbh it really wouldn't look appropriate on me.

Plus it's never warm enough around here.

Sorry that it causes you offence, expat, but as the mother of children who will never be anything other than enormous I find the relentless pressure on people to attain the (in most people's cases) overly thin 'ideal' offensive too. My husband is built like a rubgy player, he is tall, heavy boned, thickset. Even if he were skinny for him, he would never have anything other than an 'obese' BMI becuase of his build. My oldest son at least is clearly following in his footsteps being on the 98th centile for weight and off the chart for height and head size. At 2.9 he is already nearly out of age 3-4 tops. All I get is "ooh isn't he big", "what a big boy", "I bet he eats well". If he does eat, people comment on the size of his appetite (which is pretty normal IMO) and if he doesn't eat they comment on how can he be so big and not eat so much. dh has enough of a complex over his size from a lifetime of people commenting on his size and I don't want my children growing up with the same complex. dh has to buy XL or XXl clothes to fit the length of his torso, but they are made for people who are wide also, so they hang off him like tents, making him look even bigger. He gets comments all the time about his size. ds1 does too. ds2 does also, even though he is actually below the 50th centile, but people see dh and ds1 and make assumptions that ds2 must be the same.
ANd yes, as hurtful as that is, I should particularly be aware that for naturally thin people the same must be true. That people must make assumptions that thin people must be unnaturally thin, rather than just built that way. So I apologise, expat. But I still believe that there is extra-ordinary pressure on people to aspire to this waif look that is unpleasant. And I suspect that not all the size 0 models in the world really are naturally that thin.

But expat a model is being paid lots of money to model clothes precisely because she is posing as an aspirational body

The further from the aspiration that your body is, the shitter you are likely to feel

We aren't slagging off the poor unfortunate boobless model - we are pondering the issues of setting up such a body type as aspirational

shurely

Anyway she'd look lovely if she stood up straight and put a decent bra on