Target website posting plus size models

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People on this thread keep complaining about the plus sized models but I’ve never seen a plus sized model for clothing that doesn’t also show a thin model?

Target, Quince, Modcloth... three i can think of offhand.

[Anonymous]

Some of the responses on this thread are so sad and ridiculous. Obese always have to look at skinny models, they (we) deserve to see models that are bigger as well.


I mean it’s like saying if they show black models wearing something and I’m a white person, I have know idea how the clothing is going to look on me, so I’m not going to buy/try it. Oh, wait, white people that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of the responses on this thread are so sad and ridiculous. Obese always have to look at skinny models, they (we) deserve to see models that are bigger as well.


I mean it’s like saying if they show black models wearing something and I’m a white person, I have know idea how the clothing is going to look on me, so I’m not going to buy/try it. Oh, wait, white people that.

Skin color doesn't change the way clothing fits a body. Body measurements, height, and weight very much change the way clothing fits a body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of the responses on this thread are so sad and ridiculous. Obese always have to look at skinny models, they (we) deserve to see models that are bigger as well.


I mean it’s like saying if they show black models wearing something and I’m a white person, I have know idea how the clothing is going to look on me, so I’m not going to buy/try it. Oh, wait, white people that.

The issue is that clothes on an obese model are absolutely useless for anyone who doesn’t have the same body shape as the model. While clothes on a tail thin model can be extrapolated pretty easily onto onto about half of the population (ie anyone who is medium and below, or even size large where they are pretty straight up and down).

[Anonymous]

I didn’t know what people were this gross until I read about them on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t know what people were this gross until I read about them on DCUM.

Nobody is passing judgment on the obese models.

We are saying that obese models, for purposes of selling clothes, is not helpful for selling clothes. Not because anyone has issues with obese models, but because you can't guess how the clothes will fit on your body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t know what people were this gross until I read about them on DCUM.

Nobody is passing judgment on the obese models.

We are saying that obese models, for purposes of selling clothes, is not helpful for selling clothes. Not because anyone has issues with obese models, but because you can't guess how the clothes will fit on your body.

The average American woman is a size 14. Looks like the models look like the average? Like most outliers, you are just going to have to cope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t know what people were this gross until I read about them on DCUM.

Nobody is passing judgment on the obese models.

We are saying that obese models, for purposes of selling clothes, is not helpful for selling clothes. Not because anyone has issues with obese models, but because you can't guess how the clothes will fit on your body.

Disagree. Seeing the clothes on larger models definitely gives me an idea how it would look on my plus size body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t know what people were this gross until I read about them on DCUM.

Nobody is passing judgment on the obese models.

We are saying that obese models, for purposes of selling clothes, is not helpful for selling clothes. Not because anyone has issues with obese models, but because you can't guess how the clothes will fit on your body.

The average American woman is a size 14. Looks like the models look like the average? Like most outliers, you are just going to have to cope.

The average American woman who is shopping online is a lot smaller than the average American woman. Take out low income and women 55+, both groups of which aren’t shopping online a ton and both groups of which are heavily tilting the average obesity levels up, and you’re left with an average a lot smaller than size 14.

In any event, even if the average size of shoppers is 14, the range of body types at size 14 is huge. Which renders the size 14 model useless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many brands are doing this now it’s so annoying. It’s distracting and not a good representation of the clothing

Average person in the US is overweight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of the responses on this thread are so sad and ridiculous. Obese always have to look at skinny models, they (we) deserve to see models that are bigger as well.


I mean it’s like saying if they show black models wearing something and I’m a white person, I have know idea how the clothing is going to look on me, so I’m not going to buy/try it. Oh, wait, white people that.

The issue is that clothes on an obese model are absolutely useless for anyone who doesn’t have the same body shape as the model. While clothes on a tail thin model can be extrapolated pretty easily onto onto about half of the population (ie anyone who is medium and below, or even size large where they are pretty straight up and down).

They’re also useless for anyone that isn’t 5’8”… or someone with broad shoulders, or someone with an actual bottom or chest… you get the point, I hope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of the responses on this thread are so sad and ridiculous. Obese always have to look at skinny models, they (we) deserve to see models that are bigger as well.


I mean it’s like saying if they show black models wearing something and I’m a white person, I have know idea how the clothing is going to look on me, so I’m not going to buy/try it. Oh, wait, white people that.

The issue is that clothes on an obese model are absolutely useless for anyone who doesn’t have the same body shape as the model. While clothes on a tail thin model can be extrapolated pretty easily onto onto about half of the population (ie anyone who is medium and below, or even size large where they are pretty straight up and down).

They’re also useless for anyone that isn’t 5’8”… or someone with broad shoulders, or someone with an actual bottom or chest… you get the point, I hope.

But not true. I’m 5’4, size 4, 125lb but with boobs and a butt. It’s very easy to look at a standard model that is 5’10, size 0, 105 lb and guess how the clothes will look on me. Also easy to use those models to guess how they will look on my sister who is similar body shape but more like a size 8. The point is that standard models are as close as you can get to putting them on a neutral hanger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, bigger people have had to look at skinny models their whole lives, so I think you’ll be fine

They've gotten so much mileage out of gaining some sense of superiority from being smaller than other women that it kills them that there are going to be fewer overweight women. The losers need any edge and are outraged that they are losing the only thing that makes them feel better than. These are the most insecure people on the planet and are the ones losing their minds of the existence of these medicines. These are the women starting these posts that are just disguised hate fests and brag posts.

[Anonymous]

Boooo hoooooo. I can't possibly imagine what this will look like on someone flat chested.

Grow up and get some real problems!