Whilst reading the Guardian online this week, I came across an interesting article on the ask Hadley feature, which was entitled, Why are so many fashion trends impossible to wear if you have breasts larger than a B-cup size?
As Hadley noted, this subject has caused quite a split amongst the fashion industry. Some fashion protesters have argued that high fashion is a part of the industry that has become dominated by 20 something, size four models, who have been chosen by gay designers to make women look ‘different’, rather then attractive. It is an industry that is all about appealing to gay men.
On the other hand, designers and fashion experts claim that contrary to popular belief, this type of model and the garments she parades have been created to set an example to women; these models have been chosen to embody the ideal that women should dress for themselves and not for heterosexual males. This takes stand against claims that high fashion is a ‘cruel anti-feminine industry, in which the sole goal is to make women feel bad about themselves.’ commented Hadley.
But unfortunately as a result of the goal to achieve the perfect, empowering woman and her wardrobe, the garments that are produced for this type of breed of female don’t usually seem to fit the everyday, full figured female population. And this is why the breast issue continues.
As Hadley stated ‘part of the reason why fashion gets such a bad rap; because it is basically a private member’s club that excludes men’. Being a young female working within the industry, I and many other women do find something refreshing in the fact that most areas of the fashion industry aren’t focused upon or obsessed with breast. But the problem is that we ourselves as women are obsessed with breast, we want bigger, better, smaller, we want perfection, because we live in a breast obsessed world! Even if some individuals over a B-cup reduced down to this ‘ideal’ fashion size, the likely hood is that many would still remain unhappy as they would perceive themselves as imperfect in the eyes the rest of the world.
Unfortunately we just have to face the fact that in some cases high fashion and breast go together like a pair of Jimmy Choos with a tracksuit.
