While I knew that Spain recently disallowed models that were too thin (if a model is 5 ft 8 inches, she must weigh 123 or more) or too young (no younger than 16), I didn’t realize this:

In another step, the Spanish government’s Health Ministry has reached an agreement with major clothing designers to standardize women’s sizes. They plan to measure 8,500 Spanish women and girls from age 12 to 70 to find out the real shapes of their bodies. The new program, which will be phased in during the next five years, also bans window displays with clothes smaller than a European size 38 – typically a size 6 in the US. Marilyn Gardner

In our stores, we would sometimes pin the back of garments on the mannequins in the window, and it is common to do that in fashion shoots.

It is good to see fashion tied in with good health. Perhaps the ‘heroin chic’ style of picturing models will also go by the wayside. Ya think?

That said, my college daughter was always very, very thin until maturity. I knew she ate and what she ate. Others weren’t so sure. Lots of calorie rich things because she was always so active. She naturally had what fashion was portraying.

How does one monitor this for the public, though? Publicists deny until their client goes into rehab.

Setting the bar is a good thing, I think. Learning to like oneself in the plethora of fashion images, when few ‘fit’, is an ongoing process. Anything that makes beauty more realistic and less illusion gets my thumbs up. Well, of course, some illusion is more than OK in my book — I’m certainly glad there is makeup and that a woman is free to use it. Men too, now, so it seems.

Karin

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