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My wife's just back from a weekend in London and one of the things she brought back was the Chrismas catalogue for Liberty. As Christmas is approaching I took it as a hint to read it, the sultry looking model in her scanties on the cover did not sway me one bit, oh no. Inside were more models, but some of them looked dangerously underfed. Good bone structure is one thing but skeletal seem's quite another.

I know this has been going on a few years , Clinton blasting 'heroin chic', but I was under the impression that fashion had shifted back towards the fuller figure. Do retailers etc have a duty to avoid the glamourisation of anorexia? Since Liberty appeals to the more (ahem) mature women can they be more extreme with the image, making thinness a part of the aspirational ideal but at no risk to their educated, wealthy clientele? Or is it a subtle ploy to subvert the male objectification of women by desexing them (then why use them to sell lingerie)?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 10:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, Liberty (at least in London) is no longer the place where your mum buys scarves. They've been hard at it trying to work the high-fashion angle, positioning shopping at Liberty as something that edgy rich people do.

I go there for perfume and make-up due to amazing selection of Comme de Garçons potions and Kiehl's concession.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I got some fantastic Shu Uemura eyelash curlers for the princely sum of £16, even the chappie at the counter found the price a bit steep. The are ace though. I'm extremely pissed off that there's no Shu Uemura concession in the new Edinburgh branch of Harvey Nicks.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

If you were a model and naturally very thin (like I was when I was eighteen - not the model bit) would you get pissed off that everyone assumed you were anorexic?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes you would. Just as people now assume Pete that your 15st bulk is due to overeating not your naturally dense bones.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

sixteen years pass...

flatshaming?

― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Friday, 13 September 2019 23:34 (six years ago)

did we ever get self-image distorted

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 13 September 2019 23:49 (six years ago)

nice

― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Friday, 13 September 2019 23:55 (six years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/joOtFzP.jpg

― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Saturday, 14 September 2019 05:16 (six years ago)

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