Curves Are Coming Back... Thank Goodness!
I’m sure you’ll agree that we’ve all had far too much of the skinny syndrome across all media. Yes, we all want to be a dress size smaller BUT the media and fashion designers are entirely to blame in my view for glamorising skinnies with the help of some painfully thin models and celebs (you know who you are!). So, when I recently read a piece in the Telegraph about curves coming back into fashion I felt a strange urge to five the Haagen Dazs ice cream man when I went to the cinema recently.
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Beyonce - Possibly The Sexiest & Curviest Woman On Earth!
You may have recently seen a shocking article in a certain 'trash' magazine (you bad people) featuring a very sexy looking Jessica Simpson who had clearly gained a few pounds. The article suggested Jessica was fat... are you blind?! If you were unfortunate enough to read the article I really hope your estimation of the magazine has dropped as it has me.
Calm down Katie... back to the telegraph article. I learnt that when a recession kicks in so do the curves, fascinating and I eagerly read on to discover why...
“In times of plenty there’s a contrarian chic to having an austere shape,” says design guru Stephen Bayley, author of the forthcoming Woman as Design. “Equally, in times of want, there is an opposing taste for a voluptuous one. What the female body illuminates is that ever-present conflict between acceptance of the real and pursuit of the ideal.”
Susie Orbach, author of Fat is a Feminist was also quoted as saying, “Paradoxically, lean times allow a lessening of the strictures with which women have so corseted their eating and their bodies,” she says. “With the fear of what might be happening in the economy there is a new mood of concern and care and, in the personal realm, a permission to be less controlled and more forgiving. Curves also soften blows or perhaps give people a sense that they don’t need to be so angular and cut and thrust.”
If you still are not convinced that skinny is out, curves are proven to make us more alluring to the opposite sex. There’s nothing more off putting than a boney stick trust me. Learn to rejoice when you add a few extra pounds and resist hiding curves... instead accentuate them and be proud of your new found femininity. Once you start accepting your curvature you’ll experience incredible waves of sexyness and in turn people will read this.
Fascinating eh and long may fuller figures reign. I was really happy when I heard that a new fashion and style magazine for Condé Nast called Love, has allegedly banned size-zero models from its pages. Crappy trash magazines take note!
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