A Size too far

A Size too Far
By Alice Knowles

While the government are trying to rid the country of obesity, there are others who are going further. There is a "growing" trend happening in fashion these days and no it has nothing to do with, Hem length, lip colour or fabric style. According to “woman’s wear” the newest trend in fashion is the legendary size zero, women these days are ecoming thing In fact the number of women that are size zero is rapidly increasing. More and more skinny and it doesn’t help that size zero is no longer a catwalk only

The measurements for size zero are only a 23 inch waist and a bust no bigger than 31 inches.. But is the new infamous size zero a step up in trying to promote healthy eating and stomp out obesity? And do these super skinny women give our women of tomorrow something sensible to look up to?

So who can we blame for this new size zero? Is it our new culture and love of fashion and to look good? Why we have suddenly been forced to feel as If we are not skinny enough? Do the media have too much effect on our appearance? If you would care to look back to the 16th century you will find that skinny people just simply didn’t exist so how have we come from a generation of curvaceous women to worrying thin.

But its not all bad news in fact many company some as big as Gucci are banning the new size zero. Gucci says that it will no let models smaller than U.K size 10. And dove are starting a campaign called “real beauty” Razing the awareness of everyday women being Beautiful. Dove did a survey of women aged 15-25 and it turned out that 90% of women aged 15-64 said they would like to change at least one thing about there personal appearance. (with the highest being weight) 67% of all women 15 to 64 withdraw from life-engaging activities due to feeling badly about their looks (among them things like giving an opinion, going to school, going to the doctor)

But surely a size zero can’t be healthy for a woman of 5”5? So is there another reason for this I hear you ask! Well maybe there is what about Anorexia nervosa. Anorexia is a common eating disorder that often start’s with normal dieting to lose weight but turns into a form of starvation causing a person to become dangerously underweight It's estimated that about three or four people in every 100 have anorexia. Most deny they have a problem and many have depression. But yet we are still finding clothing on rails getting smaller and smaller so do we really need a new race of super skinny’s

By Alice Knowles

Doves Campagin for beauty