i know people in every size range. they are all "real" admittedly many of the images in the magazines are photo shopped to unreality, but the actual people are all "real".
Nikki, of course, is awesome. but thats because she is Nikki.
as a fashion design student, however... one of the issues that designers have is that in school we are pretty well ORDERED to work on a "standard model size" and we rarely get instruction in real grading... sizing up or down. and you dont just size UP from a 6-8 (the standard, which is closer to a ready to wear 4-6) to a size 14+ by adding an even amount speaking as a size 18 i see the result of that all the time, in my clothes not fitting
its VERY easy to size down form a 4 to a 0... or up to maybe an 8 but anything beyond that?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2013-05-21 02:29 am (UTC)admittedly many of the images in the magazines are photo shopped to unreality, but the actual people are all "real".
Nikki, of course, is awesome. but thats because she is Nikki.
as a fashion design student, however... one of the issues that designers have is that in school we are pretty well ORDERED to work on a "standard model size" and we rarely get instruction in real grading... sizing up or down.
and you dont just size UP from a 6-8 (the standard, which is closer to a ready to wear 4-6) to a size 14+ by adding an even amount
speaking as a size 18 i see the result of that all the time, in my clothes not fitting
its VERY easy to size down form a 4 to a 0... or up to maybe an 8 but anything beyond that?