Welcome to my blog! I created it last June, and never posted once. Better late than never?

There is an article in today's Washington Post about shrinking models in the fashion industry. The author notes that the average size of a model is down from sizes 4-6 to a 0-2. The average model is 5'10" with measurements of 33-23-34. Certainly not a Barbie doll. They're concerned that this is adding to the stress of young women to fit into this mold.

What I find contradictory, and which isn't mentioned in the article, is that the size labels in clothing have changed over the decades as well. What was considered a size 10 in the '60s and '70s has been re-labelled a size 6. People within the clothing industry have been quoted in recent years as purposely changing the sizing, to make women feel better about their larger size. (Is this their version of the dumbing down of America?)

So my question is... if the sizes have changed, and the models have changed, in roughly the same amount... are we not exactly where we started decades ago? Twiggy had a boyish figure in the 60s, looking remarkably like today's models.

Just a thought....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020102068.html