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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: The "Weight" Problem
Message-ID: <74@unc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 19:38:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 19:38:13 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Apr-85 03:14:43 EST
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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In article <alice.3613> jj@alice.UUCP writes:
>
>It's been my experience that most women's clothing is built
>for the size seven model, and size 12 is build for someone
>with a waist the size of Mount Olympus, since there is NO scaling
>to different *relative* sizes of larger/smaller women.
>
>Due to the lack of change of pattern, the person in size 12 clothing
>LOOKS FAT, regardless of whether she is fat, slightly pudgy,
>or actually skinny.  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.
>
>For many, MANY women, the weight at which they fit "standard" clothing
>is much too light, to the point of being unhealthily underweight.

I propose the following test which avoids all the above mentioned
inequities:

	If you look good in a string bikini,
	then you are at your proper weight.

For men, substitute a loin cloth for the bikini.

		Frank Silbermann