Plus size women: Wear your size proudly!
In the 1600’s, Peter Paul Rubens became famous for his paintings of plus size women. Hence, the term “rubenesque” is now commonly used to describe a plus size woman’s beauty. Throughout the 1700’s, many plus size women modeled for some of the most famous paintings, drawings, and sculptures of the 18th century. The 1800’s introduced Lillian Russell, one of the first famous plus size actresses .
Let’s fast forward to today:
In 2008, plus size women want to see magazines, billboards, and clothing that accurately refelects their own image. Today plus size women can find plus size clothing that not only makes them look and feel like a million dollars, but they can find it at an affordable price.
Today’s leading designers realize the importance of marketing plus size clothing. Women with curves can lavish themselves in designer plus size blouses, designer pants, and plus size dresses. The hottest designer fashions for plus size women are created by Carolyn Taylor, Giorgio Sant’ Angelo, Larry Levine, Ashley Jill, and Nicola.
Plus size women should look up to plus size models are role models. Not only do they introduce the hottest fashions to today’s plus size woman, but they pave the way for further plus size models in a highly competitive industry.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:44 am
what statistics do you have that pertain to plus size models and how many there are as to how many there used to be?
February 14th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Hi Abby,
Thanks for checking out Julie Ann Apparel! I don’t think there’s ever been a shortage of plus size models, but I do think that there was a shortage of job propsects for plus size models for many many years.
While I don’t have exact numbers for statistics, we can only look at popular culture as a model for success. The Renaissance, Barouque and Rococo eras celebrated plus size women through all sorts of mediums. This continued all the way until the 60’s.
Suddenly “skinny” became the new fad as America was bombarded with images of thin models (like Twiggy) and ads for all sorts of things that promised to make plus size women thinner: including the the first diet drink “Metrecal”, which earned a whopping $40 million in 1960!
Of course plus size women were still around, but the job propsects for them were slim to none. Think back to the 1970’s and 1980’s–how many plus size models and plus size actresses can you recall? Probably not very many. This changed in the 1990’s though with Anna Nicole Smith, Emme, and many other plus size models.
Nevertheless, it’s probably still safe to say that plus size models and plus size women in general–were more accepted and praised for their physique in earlier periods than they are today. At least that’s what print media and television would lead us to believe.