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Anonymous wrote:I think the Lands End gray haired women that is in the catalogs is gorgeous. I hope I age like her.

As for plus size, I dislike when the plus model is first picture. I can’t tell if it only plus size. Very large curve distort the clothes too. I can’t tell how the fabric is supposed to drape

Well now you know how plus sized or curvier women feel when the models are only stick straight with teeny tiny boobs. We have no idea how clothes are going to look on women with real figures when they only display them on toothpicks!!! I can't tell how the fabric is supposed to drape because it just hangs there.

Actually on very thin models, you see exactly how the clothes are meant to drape, like seeing the clothes on a hanger. Then you can envision your body and your unique curves. It is hard to do the reverse. If i see a pleated tennis skirt stretched out on a size 20..I have no idea how the fabric is meant to look and drape.

No -- the bust alone is really difficult to figure out when a model is an A cup.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the Lands End gray haired women that is in the catalogs is gorgeous. I hope I age like her.

As for plus size, I dislike when the plus model is first picture. I can’t tell if it only plus size. Very large curve distort the clothes too. I can’t tell how the fabric is supposed to drape

Well now you know how plus sized or curvier women feel when the models are only stick straight with teeny tiny boobs. We have no idea how clothes are going to look on women with real figures when they only display them on toothpicks!!! I can't tell how the fabric is supposed to drape because it just hangs there.

Actually on very thin models, you see exactly how the clothes are meant to drape, like seeing the clothes on a hanger. Then you can envision your body and your unique curves. It is hard to do the reverse. If i see a pleated tennis skirt stretched out on a size 20..I have no idea how the fabric is meant to look and drape.

Clothing is made to drape differently on different sizes. If a designer is cutting a 0 and a size 20 the same way, they have no business calling themselves a designer.

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Anonymous wrote:So many of the Athleta models make me cringe and not even want to consider their clothing. I am all for "inclusive" but...

You’re all for inclusive but you’re actually not?

I like being able to see what clothes will look like on a body like mine.

I don’t. The older woman is gorgeous, but companies are using very overweight women and the clothes look horrible! I guess it’s helpful to see in advance that the clothes will look crappy on fat people…but is it helping sales? Probably not.

Probably yes. They wouldn’t do it if it didn’t.

I’m an average woman, 5’3, 110. When I see clothes on plus sizes models, I figure they are not for me and I don’t buy them.

And the 90% of women who are not way below average size like you do the same when they see doll clothes on a Lilliputian model.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the Lands End gray haired women that is in the catalogs is gorgeous. I hope I age like her.

As for plus size, I dislike when the plus model is first picture. I can’t tell if it only plus size. Very large curve distort the clothes too. I can’t tell how the fabric is supposed to drape

Well now you know how plus sized or curvier women feel when the models are only stick straight with teeny tiny boobs. We have no idea how clothes are going to look on women with real figures when they only display them on toothpicks!!! I can't tell how the fabric is supposed to drape because it just hangs there.

Actually on very thin models, you see exactly how the clothes are meant to drape, like seeing the clothes on a hanger. Then you can envision your body and your unique curves. It is hard to do the reverse. If i see a pleated tennis skirt stretched out on a size 20..I have no idea how the fabric is meant to look and drape.

Anonymous wrote:I think the Lands End gray haired women that is in the catalogs is gorgeous. I hope I age like her.

As for plus size, I dislike when the plus model is first picture. I can’t tell if it only plus size. Very large curve distort the clothes too. I can’t tell how the fabric is supposed to drape

And we all know plus sized people are less than and don't deserve to be respected so can we please move their pictures to the very back of the catalog? Me and my delicate snowflake friends with eating disorders are really bothered by seeing average looking or overweight people. It hurts us like carbs.

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Anonymous wrote:So many of the Athleta models make me cringe and not even want to consider their clothing. I am all for "inclusive" but...

You’re all for inclusive but you’re actually not?

I like being able to see what clothes will look like on a body like mine.

I don’t. The older woman is gorgeous, but companies are using very overweight women and the clothes look horrible! I guess it’s helpful to see in advance that the clothes will look crappy on fat people…but is it helping sales? Probably not.

+1. Clothes look awful on the overweight models. I take one look and I don’t even want to consider those tights or the shirts. I’m not skinny either but just average.

You people are vile.

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Anonymous wrote:So many of the Athleta models make me cringe and not even want to consider their clothing. I am all for "inclusive" but...

You’re all for inclusive but you’re actually not?

I like being able to see what clothes will look like on a body like mine.

Clearly pp doesn't have a clue what the word inclusive means.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the Lands End gray haired women that is in the catalogs is gorgeous. I hope I age like her.

As for plus size, I dislike when the plus model is first picture. I can’t tell if it only plus size. Very large curve distort the clothes too. I can’t tell how the fabric is supposed to drape

Well now you know how plus sized or curvier women feel when the models are only stick straight with teeny tiny boobs. We have no idea how clothes are going to look on women with real figures when they only display them on toothpicks!!! I can't tell how the fabric is supposed to drape because it just hangs there.

Can we please stop saying that plus sized or curvier women are the women with “real figures”? All women have real figures.
I agree with the PPs above that catalogs need to include more medium-sized women.

LMAO at all the thin white woman complaining about diverse (in shape, size, age, and color) models. Y'all are tone deaf and just so clueless. "Me, me, me, everything must be about me because I have been catered to my whole f_ing life!!"

Anonymous wrote:I think the Lands End gray haired women that is in the catalogs is gorgeous. I hope I age like her.

As for plus size, I dislike when the plus model is first picture. I can’t tell if it only plus size. Very large curve distort the clothes too. I can’t tell how the fabric is supposed to drape

Well now you know how plus sized or curvier women feel when the models are only stick straight with teeny tiny boobs. We have no idea how clothes are going to look on women with real figures when they only display them on toothpicks!!! I can't tell how the fabric is supposed to drape because it just hangs there.

I think she looks beautiful, but the clothes are terrible. They'd be terrible on a hot blonde. Good for them for choosing an older woman and not photoshopping away her age spots and wrinkles.

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I’m an average woman, 5’3, 110. When I see clothes on plus sizes models, I figure they are not for me and I don’t buy them.

I'm around the same size (5'4 and 115). I am not offended by the plus sized models and can accept that people come in all sizes and are all worthy of seeing someone their size represented on an ad for something they might purchase. I wear a 2 or a 4 and there is no shortage of models wearing these sizes (of course, they are typically 5'10 to 6 ft tall and pretty much everything looks better on them than it would on my not quite petite frame, but that's another issue).

My sister and I, both plus size, were just talking about how all the plus size models are still usually tall hot women with larger, but still perfectly shaped bodies. It doesn’t help give a clue how it’s going to look on us.

I’m an average woman, 5’3, 110. When I see clothes on plus sizes models, I figure they are not for me and I don’t buy them.

I'm around the same size (5'4 and 115). I am not offended by the plus sized models and can accept that people come in all sizes and are all worthy of seeing someone their size represented on an ad for something they might purchase. I wear a 2 or a 4 and there is no shortage of models wearing these sizes (of course, they are typically 5'10 to 6 ft tall and pretty much everything looks better on them than it would on my not quite petite frame, but that's another issue).

Anonymous wrote:So many of the Athleta models make me cringe and not even want to consider their clothing. I am all for "inclusive" but...

This. I think they're self sabotaging.

I think the Lands End gray haired women that is in the catalogs is gorgeous. I hope I age like her.

As for plus size, I dislike when the plus model is first picture. I can’t tell if it only plus size. Very large curve distort the clothes too. I can’t tell how the fabric is supposed to drape