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Originally Posted by Michael D.
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?
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That is very simple - on a stick person, the shirt attracts the attention to the shirt. On an hourglass figure, it attracts attention to t&a.
But do not worry, I can speak on behalf of the women with breasts and hips (currently on the slightly zaftig side, but not too bad) - we are still doing OK, we are not going anywhere, we are not becoming extinct, and the fact that the fashion industry does not portray us as the industry standard does not affect to us too much. We still mate and reproduce and all the rest of that. I do not see any crisis in the fact that the fashion industry uses thin models.