I've just recently been further annoyed by all the notion that to be fashionably acceptable, you need to be thin. This has been an issue for donkey's years now. I must admit, it only became and issue for me personally when I recently became a 36! Yes, I said it, I'm a size 36. I'm not sure if this just a temporary arrangement or what considering that my weight fluctuates like the mood swings of an Italian woman going through manopause. I have tried every trick in the book to shed the extra kilos but...I was left a 36 still! So...whatever really!!!
Anyway, just the other day @ a little gathering, some skinny ass gay boy, puffing on a Courtleigh, says that there is no space for "FAT" people in the fashion industry!!
REALLY?...I mean, it should be a crime this boy to even be allowed to talk about fashion!!
For my own safety, I will not reveal names but MR Price oversized trackpants, Markham boots, a fake Christian Audiger t-shirt from downtown JHB, and fake ass Gucci bag do not necessarily put on front-line as the Hitler of fashion
So while everyone is so busy discussing who looks more like a cigarette than a mannequin, where do we draw the line as to what is "FASHION"?
I mean I don't need to be educating people about our African silhouettes. Anyone who knows as much as they claim to know, would knw that its not even a common thing for us to be as skinny as the Europeans. We are Africans and AFRICA=BOOTY!
People pay money to look like us yet we fail to embrace what the rest of the world is embracing ABOUT US.
I mean, the CIGARETTES are paying money to look like the MANNEQUINS but the MANNEQUINS are starving themselves to look like CIGARETTES! Am I the only one who is struggling to find a balance here?
I bet not a lot of us even know why the runway only (well, most of the time) use skinny models.
Allow me to educate: The runway culture was predominantly started by our European counterparts (bear in mind that the majority of the people in these states are skinny anyway) purely for reasons of saving fabric when creating their collections for Fashion Week and stuff like that.
Secondly, the major thing was height. The models needed to be seen by people even on 5th row. And as we know it, taller people are most likely to be thinner!!! Get it???
So before we start saying that there is no place for "FAT" people in the Fashion industry while puffing on a Courtleigh cigarette that you probably don't even need because you, yourself look like the bloody cigarette, PLEASE bother to be educated!!!
Look, I'm not an activist for some National Obesity Rights Movement, but, all I'm saying is, our curves, our hips and all our full features are what separates us from the rest and we need to embrace it!
Hey, Haute Couture became what is today because it DARED to be different from all the shit in department stores!!!
JUST SAYING!!! And in true logic, the MANNEQUIN would be the one puffing on the CIGARETTE!!!
So maybe the MANNEQUIN holds the POWER!!!
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