This trend has nothing to do with gay fashion designers influences. This trend is the result of men becoming interested in women who do not look like women and the reason for that is that men have grown to hate women over that time.
This trend was precipitated by the rise of feminism, Title 9, and the concurrent emasculation of men in this generation.
This is not some axe I have to grind, but a carefully formed statement that is the result of 20 years of informal cultural analysis on my part. The next logcal step in this progression is already in progress with the ongoing and accelerating assault on children as they are the ultimate non-women. The large aging male BB population plays into this trend too.
You know, being a female I can't really argue with you. You may very well be right. I just went with a gut feeling I had. Years of clothes shopping kinda gave me the idea about fashion being alot of the cause of the trend. When I was a kid in the 70's I was able to buy clothes in the regular sizes that fit me. Now my size is considered (large women) or should I be blunt - FAT LADY SIZES!. My size is a 14 but I am not a small boned woman and not a short woman either. So I don't look overweight and am not looked on as fat by people who see me. But according to the Fashion industry I AM OBESE!!! I could not find any reason for this turn around over the years except the dictates of gay Fashion designers with a hatred of the female body (hourglass figure). By their calculatons I should be a size 4-6. Now the only way I can be that size is if I decided to do bone reduction surgery because the width of my hip bones will not every let me get into a size 4.