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Models to be banned for being too thin
The Telegraph ^
| 9/9/06
| Fiona Govan in Madrid
Posted on 09/08/2006 8:48:36 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Spain's main fashion show is to turn away models if they are too thin, striking a blow for fuller-figured women.
Organisers of the Pasarela Cibeles have devised a formula to calculate the models' body mass index and 30 per cent of them are expected to fail, said the Association of Fashion Designers of Spain.
The move is part of a voluntary agreement with the Madrid regional government, said designer Jesus del Pozo. The association said it wanted models to project "an image of beauty and health" and shun a gaunt, emaciated look at the show, which begins on Sep 18.
Last year's show drew protests from medical associations because some models were bone-thin. This year, organisers have been pressed to hire fleshier women as role models.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eatacookie; fashion; gagmewithaspoon; libertarians; nannystate; regulation; socialism; stateintervention; thin
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To: A CA Guy
That's photoshopped by the same guy that did the fake smoke in Lebanon.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:06:44 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
To: A CA Guy
Ahh, the latest fashions from the Auschwitz collection...
Someone get her a BBQ sammich!
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:08:24 PM PDT
by
Triggerhippie
(Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
To: bruinbirdman; mikrofon; martin_fierro
Spain's main fashion show is to turn away models if they are too thin. . . . The rein in Spain falls mainly on the vain.
To: bruinbirdman; Charles Henrickson; mikrofon
The association said it wanted models to project "an image of beauty and health" and shun a gaunt, emaciated look at the show![](http://www.frsa.com/images/tatianabutler.jpg)
You tell her she doesn't qualify.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:32:40 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(I'm hiding behind Charles)
To: martin_fierro
I was wondering where Dennis Rodman had disappeared to.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:34:12 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(...oops, did I say that out loud? Bad Rich. BAD Rich.)
To: bruinbirdman
I'm not into the fashion scene, so I don't really know what they are dealing with. I do know that a lot of women get pretty upset about the young girls looking so thin. The probl is, young people are naturally thin.
If we're talking about skin and bones, one or more examples on this thread (if for real), there should be some sort of help made available for these women.
If we're simply talking about women in their late teens to late twenties that still have a youthful figure, then the fashion police should back off.
I couldn't gain weight no matter how much I ate when in my late teens to my early thirties. Everyone said I should put on weight. Hey, that was just me. I ate more than most and still looked thin.
I remain amazed at how much time some folks seem to have to look for new ways to "fix" everyone else's problem.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:35:27 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Bring your press credentials to Qana, for the world's most convincing terrorist street theater.)
To: bruinbirdman
If we wanted dead models, we'd use mannequins on wheels.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:36:03 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
To: bruinbirdman
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:36:28 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: bruinbirdman
Finally, a cutie with a booty. Cushion for the pushin'. A lass with some @$$. A woman that looks like an adult female human.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:37:14 PM PDT
by
EricT.
(SpecOps needs to paint the NYT building with a targeting laser.)
To: Coyoteman
Ann is thin, too thin for my tastes, but she's not emaciated. That picture makes her look nearly so, but this one makes it clear that she's not.
![](http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/a/c/coulter_shooting_gun.jpg)
So does this one
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:44:53 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: crazyhorse691
I'm establishing a 'comfort and care' center where I can console all of the rejected skinny models.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:48:59 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Only strict constructionists on the Supreme Court!)
To: DoughtyOne
The biggest problem is that those who are emaciated think they are still too fat. They are playing with fire.
To: Coyoteman
I like Ann, but someone please give that woman a sandwich.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:54:45 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Dems - Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet few of you have heart enough to join them.)
To: bruinbirdman
Thin models are now being considered too bourgeoisie. The overweight proletariat are better suited for the job. Seventy-five years ago it was the the other way around. Back then the poor were seriously underweight.
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posted on
09/08/2006 10:08:08 PM PDT
by
oyez
(The way to punish a providence is to allow it to be governed by philosophers. --Frederick the Great)
To: originalbuckeye
There are definately people like that out there, to be sure.
I've never gone for the twiggy look. Give me a nice healthy looking woman whose toned and has a good personality.
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posted on
09/08/2006 10:09:21 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Bring your press credentials to Qana, for the world's most convincing terrorist street theater.)
To: KarlInOhio
I like Ann, but someone please give that woman a sandwich If I had my way I would lock her up, feed her Cajun Cuisine to excess and tell he she could go free as soon as she gained 15 pounds. Unfortunately I think that is illegal, :( dam it>
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posted on
09/08/2006 10:09:40 PM PDT
by
cpdiii
(Socialism is popular with the ruling class. It gives legitimacy to tyranny and despotism.)
To: DoughtyOne
I've never gone for the twiggy look. Give me a nice healthy looking woman whose toned and has a good personality.To put this in perspective the most beautiful woman to ever grace the silver screen (Sophia Loren) would be considered fat and ugly by today standards if compared to her at the absolute height of her beauty when she was 35. Hell at 68 she looks better than these skinny emaciated things that pass for beauty today.
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posted on
09/08/2006 10:13:11 PM PDT
by
cpdiii
(Socialism is popular with the ruling class. It gives legitimacy to tyranny and despotism.)
To: DoughtyOne
I was the same 100lbs dripping wet.
Then at 30 had a severely diseased thyroid totally removed and well... now eating is such a freedom now.
To: A CA Guy
Ugh. Reminds me of a woman I used to see speedwalking along the Charles in Boston.
To: Fiddlstix
OK, the ultra skinny is gross, and so is Kirsty (not as gross, though). How's this? She's a size 12, fat by American standards:
![](http://www.haifawehbeh.com/mediac/400_0/media/rose8.jpg)
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posted on
09/08/2006 10:19:30 PM PDT
by
Toby06
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