The body and beauty

Its that time of year again, Fashion Weeks from around the world have beamed across our youtube screens. Fashion magazines and websites have been a buzz of talk of next year’s seasons hottest fashion.  There is a website that I have come across that shows nearly all the shows from New York Fashion week. For me that’s sheer ecstasy, even better that eating home-made chocolate cake. I sat in bed with my ipad and lusted over the garments sent down the runway.  Not that I want to buy them but these are the foundations for ideas for me to sew my own outfits. Even, I a lover of clothes and style have been pinning non-stop to my Pintrest account.  

The Emmy’s have just been and gone. I struggled to stay awake as I love watching the outfits on the red carpet. Even though it’s repeated but I like to watch it live, admiring the stars that have got it right and sadly the ones who need to shoot their Stylist. Even the ones who have got it right use the services of a Stylist. The next day the online magazines and news sites were full of talk about the outfits and the beauty of the women. I heard commentators on the Emmy’s say about one star she is simply beautiful, stunning a figure to die for and much more. 

With all the fashion and beauty gracing our screens it got me really thinking what is beauty and body beautiful?  Do we need to be a certain size to be beautiful? We all know that the fashion industry uses size zero models who are supposed to be a minimum 5ft 10 which only a few of us can ever be. Underwear models are more curvier as with catalogue/magazine models that are much shorter.

Full figure fashion week 2013, was in it’s fifth year. Held in New York doesn’t get much press outside the America but it has been dubbed the Oscars of the plus-size women’s fashions. Believe it or not the plus size is worth $14 billion annually, which is about 14% of the total women’s clothing market, according to consumer tracking service the NPD Group. There are top designers in America that design for the full figure women.  My favourite is Tadashi Shoji whose designs have adorned some of the more curvier red carpet nominees, his designs are simply delightful and make curves have that Boom Boom Pow look but also make a women feel one hot sexy mama!

After the Emmy’s, praise rang out for Christina Hendricks from the Mad Men TV show. Why? The media says her figure is the envy of women the world over. She is curvy and has boobs. She could be Marilyn Monroe’s twin apart from the hair colour. However in we are constantly bombarded with images from the media that tell us how to look. Sadly not many looking like Christina. Making many women very self-conscious about their bodies, some even getting eating disorders because they truly believe what they are told. I hear women all the time complaining about bits or even all their body parts.  Saying they wish they could change this and that, have cosmetic surgery to get that ideal body. Very rarely do I hear women saying they love their bodies. We are drawn into that vicious circle of unhappiness because we don’t look a certain way.

When you are out next look at the women you see going about their daily business off to work, running to the shops, taking the kids to nursery or school.  They are different shapes and sizes. Not clones made from a mould. These women are ‘real’ not airbrushed. When I first decided on the name for my clothing label I realised that I am a ‘real woman’ curves and all and ‘clothes 4 real women’ was born.  Certainly not a skinny minny but I am ‘real’, very rarely seen in the magazines but I am the everyday woman. I am proud of my body and not willing to hide it under big baggy clothes just because I don’t see myself in the magazines doesn’t mean that I am not beautiful, sexy or fabulous! From my clothing label I developed my Stylist website www.clothes4realwomen.com. 

All women are ‘real’ and we have bits that we don’t like but we understand with smart clothing choices we can play down the bits we don’t like and enhance our other assets. But really we are all fabulous.  Confidence comes with knowing that you are unique, even if you have a twin, you are still unique and beautiful.

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