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Re: NEED TO SHOW TRUE PLUS SIZE MODEL.....PLEASE


@bonnielu wrote:

I would love to see model that are as short as I am which is 5 feet with a bit of weight on them, like me.  I guess what I am saying they are selling a dream... nice tall thin gals.. mostly young and lovely hoping we will buy into it and feel we will look as good.  This goes for the wrinkle and make up products that show young models with limited problems and assume we will see ourselves. 

 

It is all part of the game... and I am wondering what is the average age and or size of their customers. 


@bonnielu

Easy to do.  Just look at the next live audience show.

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Re: NEED TO SHOW TRUE PLUS SIZE MODEL.....PLEASE

I’m always amazed...how can someone live in their body for

any length of time & not know what looks good on them?

I don’t need to see a model who looks e.x.a.c.t.l.y like me

to realize what suits me.

 

Growing up, we looked at Simplicity Sewing Patterns for

what looks good...basically a drawing of a woman with 

a 12in waist and 7ft long legs...and yet we sewed clothes

which looked good. 

 

Also...how did this customer, who needs an exact size model,

shop catalogs for decades before QVC/HSN?

 

Echoing those upthread, showing garments in 2x-3x+?

They wouldn’t sell. The more body weight which is added,

some might have it in the bottom...or the belly...or in the thighs.

Couldn’t have a model for each of those unique shapes...

and that’s an issue a traditional fit model wouldn’t have.