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From: jj@alice.UUCP
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Subject: The "Weight" Problem
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 10:30:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 10:30:15 1985
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Allow me to present a viewpoint that is somewhat at odds with
what I've seen here.


1)  Given a particular person <sex isn't an issue for this part>,
a given weight is the most attractive.  This weight may vary
with the body type of the person from near-fat to very skinny.

2)  Lots of people are led, by various methods and arguments,
to adopt body styles that are not appropriate for their frame,
build, and general appearance.  I propose that this is
wrong, unjust, and offensive, to say nothing of unhealthy.


Now, let's talk about women's clothes a bit.

It's been my experience that most women's clothing, especially
"designer" or "good" clothing, <I do NOT equate the two, I'm using
two different adjectives here> is built for the size seven model,
and size 12 (about which I am informed) is
build for someone with a waist the size of Mount Olympus, since there
is bloody well NO scaling (it's called "fitting" for some silly reason)
to different *relative* sizes of larger/smaller women.  Due to the lack
of change of pattern/(in a shoe it would be called "last") the person
in size 12 clothing LOOKS FAT, regardless of whether she is fat, slightly
pudgy, or actually skinny (relative to the "best" body weight).

As a result, a lot of people find that they are perceived as fat
until they manage to loose enough weight that "standard" scale
clothing fits.<grumble>

For many, MANY women (especially, although this holds for men,
too, in different measurements) the weight at which they fit
"standard" clothing is much too light, to the point of being
unhealthily underweight. <Actually, it's my perception that
it's the other way around for men.>


I find this problem offensive. Comments?

As a side note, it seems that "low cost/low class" places like
K-Mart, Hills, etc, seem to have some clothes for the
36/26 instead of the 36/32 figure.  I can't even begin to propose
a reason.
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