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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
The fashion industry does not have to model itself after revolutionary psychology. Its goal is to sell cloothes. It is easier to demonstrate clothes on skinny models without breasts and hips. Breasts and hips otherwise get in the way. So the skinniness of fashion models is a functional requirement, just as the thinness of newer smartphones is a functional requirement. It has a rational purpose.
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I don't quite understand your reasoning. I won't argue that it isn't the reasoning of the fashion industry, but, if it is, their reasoning is flawed.
I agree that the fashion industry doesn't have to model itself after evolutionary psychology. However, it ought to if it wants to sell clothes. Sexy and healthy sell. Sickly and emaciated do not...
The vast majority of women have breasts and hips, and these are the women the fashion industry is actually marketing their products to. Why design clothes that are tailored for stick-think models when the vast majority of consumers - normal women - have a very different body type? How is that shirt going to look when the person wearing it doesn't look like a ten-year-old boy?