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10-08-2019 09:08 PM
@Andreatoo wrote:Hey stranger! Where have you been?!
Hello there @Andreatoo ... I'm around, spending time mostly in 'home', 'TV' and 'handbags' but I do drop in occasionally...
10-08-2019 09:10 PM
10-08-2019 09:26 PM
No it doesn't, at least not my definition, but if you watch the shopping channels it's often used 2 describe larger women.
There's even a couple of comments here where it's being used to describe the overweight.
The irony is that the Q is lacking in truly curvy models!
10-08-2019 09:47 PM
@ahoymate Best answer so far...
10-08-2019 09:52 PM
I don't watch shopping channels anymore but when I did, the only host that said she was "curvy" was Antonella.
I am familiar with the term used in retail because I shop at Banana Republic. They have been using the term "curvy " for one type of trousers they sell for years now. I am straight up and down so have always worn Ryan. Curvy girls like my daughter (who is very slim) also have a style named for them. It is called Sloan and it is a curvy skinny fit. Narrow in the waist and fuller in the hips.
10-08-2019 09:57 PM
@Trinity11 I could have written your last post. I have a straight type of body, too.
my daughter got the curves, but on a size 2 frame.
10-09-2019 05:27 AM
We always called them Large and Lovely or L&L for short. It is what it is.
10-09-2019 06:07 AM
I certainly wasn't curvy when I was morbidly obese. I was shaped like a cylinder with a lump or two, not a curve, here and there, narrowing slightly, but not much, from my knees to my ankles.
When you weigh double or more what your body should be carrying, a euphemism isn't worth the breath it takes to say it.
10-09-2019 06:14 AM
@manny2 wrote:I think it is just a kind word for over weight. We need to stop putting labels on people period.
Yes indeed! No one has to tell a morbidly obese women she is some adorable word. Every time she moves, she is fully aware of who she is and no cute word, or actually. O "mean" word changes that.
I never objected to being called ""fat" because I was "fat", but I have no tolerance for coyness.
I lost a dearly cherished relative to the ultimate effects of morbid obesity, though, and I learned from that the best thing to say about any body size is no "word"at all.
10-09-2019 07:46 AM
I've always been a little put off when people say "real women have curves." I am definitely a real woman, but have always been shaped straight up and down like a ruler. Nothing I can do about that.
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