I'm pretty sure there is some secret conspiracy in the fashion world to make our already overly-criticial self-conscious teenagers feel worse about themselves then they do, oh let's say, 95% of the time, as it is! As I sit here and think about writing this, I don't even think it is just teens they are targeting, but maybe women in general. Maybe men too. Provided they have boobs!
I can remember a time in the not to distant future when I was smaller then I currenly am, (weight-wise), and what a pain in the ass it was to try on clothes cause I was pretty sure that everything they sold in the stores was constructed based on the sizes of the 8-year-olds they have sewing them in some far off distant land. It was either an 8-year-old or a card carrying member of the itty-bitty-titty committee. The frustration of having to go get a larger sized clothing item, cause you happen to have breasts, is only one that can be understood by a woman (or man with moobs) who has encountered this. This frustration can quickly turn into depression, cause even though we KNOW in our heads how distorted the views of the fashion industry is on size, we still can easily fall into the trap where we start thinking we are just to damn fat for the clothes. It's like our brains get sucked out by those damn unrealistic sized clothes and we forget how to think. As an adult woman, this was hard enough, but throw in the hormones of a teenage girl, and it seriously makes you want to throw the smackdown on some poor unsuspecting anorexic salesclerk's ass.
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