beauty at every size

[lotesse]

Because it seemed to me that the New Year required some body positivity: 8 plus-sized fashion icons, text from miscellaneous poetry.

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.

Admittedly, in fashion "plus size" seems to mean something else than it does here in the actual world, but still - I love seeing even slightly larger bodies glammed up haute couture style.

Comments

[musesfool]

These are awesome.

[lotesse]

thanks :)

[slashfairy]

*loves*

[lotesse]

*loves you back*

[aiffe]

This might be kind of a weird thing to say, but they don't look fat to me. Plus size starts at...16, right? Or 18, depending on the store. These girls look like 10s, 12s, maybe a 14 here and there?

The pictures, the icons, and the women are beautiful, but I've always felt there's something body-image-damaging about showing women of a normal weight as "plus size," because girls see the stick figures sold as "regular" models (who are actually too thin to fit into the smallest size sold in regular ladies' clothing) and the women of average weight as "plus size" and feel fat when they're just normal. If I went into modeling, I'd have to model as plus-size, even though I wear a size 10 at 5'9".

(So basically the icons are still awesome and I approve of showing some women with hips thank you, the whole fashion industry just skeeves me with its deceptive labeling.)

[lotesse]

They pretty much aren't fat. But they are better.

I have this problem where I kind of really like the style of fashion photography - color, shape, light, contrast - but I hate what it does in the real world in terms of normalizing extreme thinness. So whenever I find shoots of even average-sized women, it gives me a happy.

(Honestly, for this icon set there was also a practical side, because it's pretty hard to find public domain photos of actually fat bodies - the only images I can think of are bloggers/activists, and I didn't want to appropriate their images.)

[aiffe]

:D Yeah! I feel the same way about fashion photography being pretty, and it being so hard to find it featuring women who look like most of the women I see and love IRL.

[ineptshieldmaid]

Nabbed 1,3,4,5 and 7. Lovely!

[lotesse]

thanks!

[princessofgeeks]

these are stunning; thank you.

[lotesse]

thank you!