One of the reasons I chose Banks Boutique as my clothing company was because they had so many plus sizes. There are a LOT. I often do what I call “doubles,” side-by-side photos to show that these items are available in a wide range of sizes. HOT NEWS 🔥🔥🔥🔥: I have another clothing company that also has beautiful plus sizes, too! But selling isn’t really the point of this blog post or why I do this.
Look at the pic at the bottom of this blog post. Same dress. Left is on a size small; right is on a size 1X. They are both on the appropriate size model to the dress. Which one do you prefer? I’m betting at least 75% of you will say you like the pic of the size small. Why? There are a lot of reasons. Here are just a few.
Conditioning. The advertising industry has done one helluva job in convincing us that smaller is better. Maybe it is. I am NOT part of the fat acceptance movement. I recognize that excess weight exacerbates certain illnesses and causes other problems. I’m not preaching anything like that. But. . . we are conditioned to believe that skinny or at least thin is the way to go. It wasn’t always like this. But we have to deal with the here and now.
Age of Society. The younger our society becomes, research says the preference for thinness increases. Older men like women a bit more zaftig. And I am NOT talking about chubby chasers. But older men seem to like women a bit larger. Younger men like them much thinner. And if they have big boobs on that skinny body, so much the better. HAH! Obviously, my husband is not in the stick skinny camp, but he’s 72.
The Example of Supermodels. I have NOTHING against supermodels. Many of those women are incredibly beautiful. In fact, I’m probably a little bit envious. But unless someone can find me a good deal on a medieval rack at Goodwill, I will never be one. Even when I was smaller, I was still on the short side. And those legs!!!! I’d have to cut off some tall girl’s and run like hell! Suffice it to say that this is not a career path that was EVER open to me. But that’s not really the point. The point is that these beautiful women, who most are naturally tall and thin, are approximately 1-2% of the population (the supermodels and women built like them) and the other 98% of us are attempting to emulate them. Many of us can’t. Oh, we try and try and try. Genetics will cause most of us to fail. It creates disappointment and a forever longing to achieve an unattainable goal. Did you know that the *average* woman in the WORLD is 5’4″ tall, weighs approximately 160 pounds and wears a size 14? Don’t take my (fat) word for it. Look it up if you don’t believe me.
So take another look. Which one do you prefer? It’s okay if you say you prefer the thinner model. You’re allowed to. I don’t prefer either, to be perfectly honest. I think they both look good. It’s taken me a long, long time to say that because, up until recently me, myself and I would ALWAYS pick the thinner model and sneer at the other one with some type of fat insult. I learned that crapola at home, but that’s for another time.
