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I absolutely adore this site not only for its wealth of gorgeous pin-up style clothes but it goes up to a size 2x which according to conversion charts (us 18-20) is UK 20-22, so its definitely for the curvy girls out there. Which is what they are all about. The sexiness of pin-up styling is unmistakeable and this site glorifies sexy curves.
Pinup Girl Clothing are adorable!
I'd much rather see healthy girls than those aneroxic models that we are told are the ideal.
I have a theory on why designers use skinny models. When I was doing my Fashion Design degree I too used small sizes for my designs. For me it saved money on the costs of the outfits also tailor's mannequins are a standard small size. The biggest reason I have found as well as the costs of fabrics to make larger sizes is that... Skinny models are clothes horses/coat hangers, simple as that.
On skinny models clothes stand out more and to a large extent the model becomes unimportant to the clothes (in fashion that is not in any genre that exemplifies and salutes curves). It is the clothes that are important and they take over the significance.
However, put the same outfit on someone curvier and WOW it looks amazing. It is only then that the clothes take a back seat and become enhancers for the woman, it becomes a complete package... a person who's clothes can make them shine. Put a skinny girl next to a curvy girl in the same outfit and I bet you'd see what I mean, you would notice how good the girl looks and not how good the clothes look. I hope I'm explaning myself right and you can let yourself see what I mean by that I mean we are trained as a society to see beauty in what we are told to see beauty in. The media is awash with skinniness which focuses on, well, that that must beautiful and something to aim for, by really looking you are now seeing for yourself, analysing and coming to your own conclusions and not what the media say you should.
I'm not going to even attempt to look at what beauty is, beauty is individual and an individual preference.
This of course is only my interpretation and theory not necessary the case but I hope that it may allow someone to see with their own eyes and not through the eyes of what the media allows us to look at.
My interpretation of look, is to use our eyes to look at something but seeing is our interpretation of what we look at, as an artist, seeing is all important to me as it allows deeper meaning and future cognitive connections.
So the moral of the tale is clothes don't look better on skinny models but on real women, clothes make the skinny girl but the curvy girl makes the clothes...
Ciao Bella x
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