A few days ago, the famous brand Calvin Klein showed to the world the first pictures of their first model for plus sizes. Her name is Myla Dalbesio and, although ahw got this job, a lot of people wouldn't classify her as a plus-sized woman. These pictures have supposed an impact for society, who now criticises the enterprise for its choice. But does this really surprise us? Nowadays we've seen worse.
Myla Dalbesio
It's not a secret that many aspects in our society encourage or provoke eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia. The most gullible part of the society when it comes to this are teenagers. They're trying to find their place in society, and that results in the search of not only self acceptance but also from other people. Among teenagers, acording to stadistics, girls are more likely to have eating disorders, and I think that it isn't a strange thing.
It is known that many clothing brands change the sizes of their articles every now and then. What used to be a small size can become a medium size, suddenly. This has resulted in a big change throughout the years. This leads some people to think that they have gained weight and that they may not be as skinny as society wants them to be. That's the first step for their minds to start thinking and thinking about the problem they have.
Another evidence of society's pressure on people's weight (specially in women's weight) are catwalks. Models are much more skinnier than they used to be before, and a lot of them don't even seem to have a healthy weight. What's the message that people get from that? Designers show their clothes in the way that they think will look more beautiful, and that way is with a really skinny model wearing their clothes. Is that the ideal of beauty that society has nowadays? It seems that it is.
I personally think that the pressure shouldn't be there. Designers should have models with different weights and sizes, clothing brands shouldn't constantly change their size charts and teenagers should stop worrying that much about their weight, because beauty isn't about that.
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