How The Fashion World Makes Us Feel Guilty for Being Overweight

by Rhonda

Greetings-

We’ve discussed guilt about eating and guilt about not eating. Today we will be discussing guilt about being heavy. I look at paintings by the old masters and they feature beautiful voluptuous women. There was a time when it was considered attractive to be so. Now, you can’t open a magazine, or turn on the television without seeing something to do with losing weight. To add more stress, the commercials regarding fashions usually feature ultra thin models, not the plus size ones. You mainly see the plus sized models doing ads for a weight loss program or catalogs featuring plus size fashions. I resent the term “plus size”. What does that mean exactly? A size is a size. To me it’s saying you’re not the norm, which we are. Getting back to the catalogues, I’ve seen clothes being modeled by the thin models and next to it the proud words, “available in plus sizes”. One of the problems here is I have no idea how the outfit is going to look on me, since it’s not being modeled by a representative that I can relate to. How hard would it be to show 2 versions of the dress? They call you a plus size and then make you feel invisible. Figure that one out. To add insult to injury, the larger sizes will cost you extra money. This is discrimination, plain and simple. Few things irritate me more than seeing an ad for a pretty top on sale for 9.99 with “12.99 for plus sizes” written next to it. Now, not only does the fashion world make you feel guilty about being heavy, you have to pay extra for it! There should be one price for the clothing. They might say that they have to use more material for the clothes, hence the extra price but who are they kidding? The material used for mass production of clothing is extremely low, since it’s bought in bulk. Since they’d probably sell more merchandise at the lower price, they’d make up for any extra cost in materials. Think People!!! Since most of society is not slim, why insult a major portion of your customers? I think if we all got together and inundated them with letters protesting the messages they are sending across, maybe someone will wise up and the insults will cease. Today’s affirmation is I am beautiful just the way I am.
Say it 10 times and believe it. Peace - Rhonda