Too rich or too thin

This is interesting. Spain has apparently just passed legislation banning models considered to be "too thin". Amazing and potentially far reaching because of the impact on the Madrid fashion shows and because it's entirely possible that Italy or France (both huge fashion powerhouses) might move to do the same thing.

I'm frankly amazed. The super tall and super skinny models models have always ruled our billboards, magazines and thinking...and I doubt this is the end of their era somehow. But then again, in the last decade, I've seen the desired weight and height of models and girls around me drop by at least 5 kilos below what was considered a healthy acceptable number and it's a phenomenon that is at least a trifle disturbing. (I went and looked up Kate Moss's weight in a diet and nutrition book and it was so far below the acceptable weight figure for her height that it was scary). That, plus the last time I was home in Singapore, a friend told me that the ideal weight for height scenario for teenage girls was to be 1.65m tall and 45 kilos...and does anyone have any idea how thin that is?

It can't really go on that way. There is only so far weight can drop before you get scary skeletal cases like Nicole Richie running around. But I'm a pessimist at heart. I don't really think that the tide of waif thin girls has really turned. And sadly, I know I'd give almost anything to be one of them too, because they seem to have it so easy. Just be extremely thin and it will cover up any number of other physical/character flaws.

Can a girl be too thin? Actually yes, but its not going to stop hundreds of girls from trying to become dangerously underweight anyway.


Maybe there is too thin...the African refugee look is so not chic