Why is the fashion / modeling industry prejudiced against shorter women?
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The fashion industry only wants women to be a "hanger for the clothes" and they feel that a taller hanger is better than a shorter one. If you try to figure out why the fashion industry does what it does you might just go insane. That is one messed up industry.
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The fashion industry has one body type they want. They are prjudiced against any other body type, not just shorter women. Anything they don't want doesn't mean it's bad or irregular, it just means they would rather showcase thier clothes on something different.
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The same reason they are prejudiced against fat people..They do not fit societys mold of the Barbie doll...
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The same reason they are prejudiced against fat people..They do not fit societys mold of the Barbie doll...
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They only want people thwat their clothes look good on. THey design for only one body type, whatever comes closest to a hanger, straight boney shoulders, some breasts but not too much, straight figure, not much wasit and no hips and VERY VERY long legs. And you need really big ffet to hold all that up. THey don't like to really make clothes that require alot of fitting, darts and folds and such because it would make it too expensive. SO everyone has to conform to their construction ideas and economics.
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Because they usually get all the tall men! Us tall women are pissed! ha ha
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The fashion, cosmetics and diet industries are all selling INSECURITY, not beauty or health or sex. They want you to think that because you don't look like the fashion model, or the Cover Girl model, or the guy who uses Crelm toothpaste, etc. that your are not attractive and therefore will not attract a mate. So, of course, they choose the most unrealistic examples of 'beauty' from .00001% of the population and try to pass them off as 'ideal' or 'normal'. And if too many people actually start to meet that weird artificial standard, they change to standard so that they can sell you something new. It's not prejudice. It's just that a lot of women would look at a short fashion model and say "I look as good as her" and feel secure enough to NOT buy what's being sold. . . .
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im small and a model
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Fashion and modeling are both supposed to be for an elite group of people and if they just accepted anyone it wouldn't be a big deal like it is now. But I personally do think they shouldn't be as harsh
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Of course it is true that shorter women are not inferior to tall women and therefore should not be considered as such. However, as a fashion designer, if I had to make sample sizes for girls who were 5'0" and 6'2", I think I'd go crazy! I think rather than having extremely short or extremely tall girls, what would make the most sense would be to work with girls who are somewhere in the middle but roughly the same size, so that the average woman can be represented, but it also does not make it a nightmare to show a collection!
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