Oct 19
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Less than Zero: designers cater to anorexic women
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Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Fashion, Nicole Richie, Photos, Weight Loss
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Forgive me for link dropping in your comments, Celebitchy, but this double-zero trend just infuriates me to no end. This post talks in terms of Victoria Beckham as a double-zero “Thinspirational” model in various anorexic forums.
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this does not suprise me after having an anerxic sister working at bergdorf’s
living on the UES
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No one has to be anorexic but the women of the united states could use a good workout and diet. what infuriates me is that the majority of women are joining together to justify the fact that they are overweight and NOT healthy.
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sizes are so arbitrary. I’m tiny and I remember a few years ago trying on a pair of pants that were 00s and they were huge on me. I then tried on a different brand that was a size 4 and they were so tiny that I couldn’t zip them up.
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size 00 has been around in juniors clothes FOREVER. and apparently its really not that small if a zero used to be a size 4. if they went back to old school sizings a size 0 would be smaller than a 00 with todays sizings.
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Wow, Seriously, sterotype much?
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I think this is just sick. Yes, American women need to drop some weight (myself included), but we also need to remember that the other extreme is not the answer…who wants to hump a bone?
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Size 00 is a new thing? They’ve been here in Vancouver forever. Tons of stores have 00′s on the rack here. Huh.
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well as for nicole she is goin 2 b hospitalized for that anorexia she has its a matter of time, but all this talk about sizes its really silly , who cares as long as u r healthy and happy with ur self image that what it all comes 2, some people r happy with their overweight bodies, while a lot of those anorexics r not
.and i think everyone knows the healthy way 2 lose weight if they want 2
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What’s next? Designer barf bags for bullemics?
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The clothing stores up here have had 0 and 00 for some time. In fact, that’s often all that’s left on the racks because no one fits them. It’s impossible to find pants in a size 9.
I’ve always found that sizes are stupid and it’s no surprise that designers are changing sizes to make people feel smaller. If someone’s a size 4 in one brand and a ten in another, which one is she going to buy? I know that I felt pretty good when I bought a pair of size 5 capris this summer, considering my regular size is almost double that!
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I wear a 00 in juniors, and I am so glad they have them. Zeros usually hang off of me. I am not anorexic by any stretch of the imagination. I am just 5’1”!
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I’m in the same situation as blahblah. I remeber going to banana republic last year and couldn’t buy these corduroys I wanted because the size 0 was almost falling off of me. I’m not anorexic either; I’m five-foot one and weigh 105 pounds which is 20 pounds heavier than Nicole Richie.
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Designers call it ‘vanity sizing’
All those rich cosseted types are not going to fork out if when they walk into a swanky shop they only fit into a size fourteen, and what the rich cosseted types lead, the hoi polloi follow.
The beauty industry is and will always be controversial; a hundred years ago the big scare was ‘tight lacing’, girls were told trying for a fashionable 20 inch waist would send them insane and ruin their health: The more things change the more they stay the same
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I think that these “celebrities” are disgustingly thin, which some people find hard to believe coming from someone who is as tiny as me. However, I don’t starve myself. I’m naturally thin and wish people could focus on being healthy and not just thin. It’s setting a terrible example for young girls and doing an enormous amount of damage to the health of these women.
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There’s a call for it in Asia? They wouldn’t buy that overpriced crap there… those are the people that are making clothes and shipping it HERE. So great, when I have a disease that is going to kill me, I’ll just say, I’m Chinese.
Why don’t we make all pants sized by inches and short/tall? I know I shop by waist size alone since those sizes are whack; when I resell my jeans, I never know how to relist them.
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since when are 35 inch hips considered anorexic? i’m 5’5″ and wear a size 2 with 34 inch hips. 35 sounds normal to me, just because America is becoming overweight/obese is no reason to label normal sizes as anorexic.
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