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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: skinny fashion models
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Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 21:55:21 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 13 21:55:21 1985
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> 
> 	Just a thought, nothing scientific, but I had always thought
> that the reason that large-breasted fine assed dark skinned women
> are not generally used to model fashions, is that designers don't
> want to cheat by using figures that would catch eyes no matter what
> they wore.

	This may well be at least partly true. I seem to recall a designer
of movie clothes (might've been Edith Head) remarking that there was
a considerable difference between designing clothes to flatter actresses,
esp. ones with oomphy figures, and designing clothes which are interesting
in the abstract. In the former case, the role of the clothes is reduced
in oder to enhance the woman wearing them (which is, you would think,
what Jane Average wants, too); in the latter, the model should distract
as little as possible from the lines of the clothes themselves.
	I think this is silly. I want to wear clothes that make me feel
good and look good, I don't want to wear architecture.
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jcpatilla

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