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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: skinny fashion models
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Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 04:34:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 13 04:34:00 1985
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>/* jay@npois.UUCP (Anton Winteroak) / 11:28 am  Apr 11, 1985 */
>
>	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.

I believe one reason for this is actually that people appear
wider in photographs and such than they actually are, because
a rounded 3-D image is being projected onto a flat surface.