Politics

What is Plus Size? (Part II)

October 22, 2012

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There has been a lot of hype lately about the “plus size” model Robyn Lawley–yes, she is beautiful, has curves to her body, and is pretty buxom… but, it is really hard for me to categorize her with the “plus size” crowd.

How can someone who is a size 30 relate to someone who has a perfect body and is a size 10/12? It seems the same as comparing an average size 10/12 woman to a runway model who is a size 00. There is always the unattainable that the majority of women will never be.  Sadly, there will always be girls and women looking to this perfection, striving to be someone they may not ever be.

 

[Left] Robyn Lawley (Pic source); [Right] Fluvia Lacerda (Pic Source)

 

See above, a picture example of two different plus size models. On the left is Robyn Lawley, a size 12. On the right is Fluvia Lacerda, a size 18. How can they be one and the same? They are both beautiful and they both have curves, but next to Fluvia, Robyn looks like the “average” sized woman.  Added to this, they both have perfect proportion–a body that is merely a larger version of the idealized body. How many people look this way when they are plus size or any size?

All of this does not make sense. Maybe there needs to be new terms to describe different types of curves and plus size… Maybe Robyn Lawley is “Curvy Slender” and Fluvia Lacerda is “Curvy Plus“…?

Until the fashion industry starts showing a more “normal” (as in shape, as well as size) woman–be it plus size or not–there will never be a change in the mindset of society, women, and girls.

We are still striving to define ourselves, maybe we will never be satisfied. In the end it’s up to ourselves to walk through the sea of “perfection” to find the reality. Plus size is as plus size does.

 

This post is a continuing conversation from a previous post entitled “What is Plus Size?

Happiness Should be in Fashion

September 21, 2012

Today I was making my semi-annual visit to my dentist. I have been going to this same dentist since I first had teeth.  My family has been going to him since the 1970’s. He knows us and what we’ve been up to through the years pretty well.

The dentist may seem like an odd place to talk politics and the business world, but I guess I have a very happenin’ 70+ year old dentist! He was asking me about what I was up to since he last saw me. I told him about starting my own business and this blog, and how young people today are making different life and career choices because we are finding that it is more important, ultimately, TO BE HAPPY. Not to mention the fact that since there is a job shortage, many young people are out of work, way under payed, and/or working a job below their qualifications. I have experienced this first hand. This has led to many of us to reevaluate where we want to go and how we’re getting there.

I guess you can call us the  ‘New Age Hippie’ of sorts. NO, most of us shower regularly and can hold down a ‘regular’ job, but we are more and more choosing to leave the traditional business world to pursue our own vision. (By choice or by last resort.)

‘Traditional’ may get you somewhere, but is it where you want to be? Young people are opting out of the regular rat race that is corporate America. Instead, we are choosing to do our own ‘thang.’ Meaning that we want to have a career on our own terms and working for our own dreams instead of being a worker bee for someone else’s dreams. Examples of this are right here in front of you. This blog, other blogs, Etsy shops, new online start ups, all of social media… The list goes on!

It’s all about ‘thinking outside the box,’ and realizing that NOT making tons of money and being HAPPY is the best thing in life–because, really, what is money worth when you have no life or happiness? You can buy and buy, but you have no meaning to your life. No purpose.

This is mainly a fashion blog, but I think that fashion can be more than ‘fluff’ and a pretty outfit. It can be thoughtful, and if you can reach out to people who don’t normally think beyond tomorrow’s outfit once in a while, I think that’s an amazing thing!

Maybe the hippies of the 1960’s had something going… Maybe we need to take a little bit from the past and join it with what we have today. We all need to take time to stop and smell the roses, paint the roses, and then sell the roses and the painting.

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