missy_blue_eyez
Well-Known Member
Ok, a little rant from me and please all let me know your thoughts because I am totally bewildered by it!
If your not from the Uk, or have never heard, Simply Be is a clothing catalogue that does a range of clothes for women of plus size. They go from a size 12-34ish. Not so long ago they ran a competition to find a model to represent what they represent.
So anyway, this morning, I log on to look for a dress, and see a link entitled 'Winner of our Sexiest Curves competition'. Now I am not bitter, the girl is absolutely gorgeous but she is hardly curvy!!!! Then after looking at the winner, I took a looksy on the runnners up....again none of them any bigger then a size 10/12, 14 at the absolute maximum.
So my rant is.......why on earth did they advertise such a competition making it seem like they wanted girls of real body shapes that use there catalogue. The average british woman is a size 16 and I dont feel that any of the girls whom got to the runner up/winner of the competition is representative of this at all. The judges of the competition obviously had an idea of what they wanted and to me, shouldnt have made it seem like they would consider anything because all the girls they have picked are jus so not curvy. Maybe they should have even picked a few girls who represented a few different body shapes, Im not jus saying they should have picked a fat girl for the sake of picking a fat girl but I am pretty sure that girls the size they have chosen probably shop in your regular high street stores and have no need to use a specialist chain!
I am just really annoyed that this catalogue talks about 'loving your curves' and 'accepting size' then being to chicken to actually represent women for what they really are.............
ok rant over.....here is the link if you wanna look!
http://simplybeuk.drct2u.com/page?pageId=1372
They are gorgeous girls....but curvy??? Hmmmmmmm what do you all think to this?
If your not from the Uk, or have never heard, Simply Be is a clothing catalogue that does a range of clothes for women of plus size. They go from a size 12-34ish. Not so long ago they ran a competition to find a model to represent what they represent.
So anyway, this morning, I log on to look for a dress, and see a link entitled 'Winner of our Sexiest Curves competition'. Now I am not bitter, the girl is absolutely gorgeous but she is hardly curvy!!!! Then after looking at the winner, I took a looksy on the runnners up....again none of them any bigger then a size 10/12, 14 at the absolute maximum.
So my rant is.......why on earth did they advertise such a competition making it seem like they wanted girls of real body shapes that use there catalogue. The average british woman is a size 16 and I dont feel that any of the girls whom got to the runner up/winner of the competition is representative of this at all. The judges of the competition obviously had an idea of what they wanted and to me, shouldnt have made it seem like they would consider anything because all the girls they have picked are jus so not curvy. Maybe they should have even picked a few girls who represented a few different body shapes, Im not jus saying they should have picked a fat girl for the sake of picking a fat girl but I am pretty sure that girls the size they have chosen probably shop in your regular high street stores and have no need to use a specialist chain!
I am just really annoyed that this catalogue talks about 'loving your curves' and 'accepting size' then being to chicken to actually represent women for what they really are.............
ok rant over.....here is the link if you wanna look!
http://simplybeuk.drct2u.com/page?pageId=1372
They are gorgeous girls....but curvy??? Hmmmmmmm what do you all think to this?
