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"As part of the effort to standardize [clothe] sizes, the [spanish health] ministry plans to measure 8,500 Spanish girls and women between the ages of 12 and 70 to determine the true shapes of Spanish women's bodies."
Full article on cnn.
Full article on cnn.
posted by Pedro at 3:41 PM
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I'm heartened by Spain's misogyny-fighting politics under Zapatero: Legalized same-sex marriage as well as LGBTQ adoption; legislation requiring that housework be shared equally by married partners; recently, laws prohibiting the fashion industry from setting unhealthy standards with dangerously underweight fashion models; and now, what sounds like a plan to make clothes-sizing more practical as well as less exploitative (i.e. where the market manufactures body image anxiety, then exploits that anxiety by selling increasingly small "feel-good" sizing). (Is that your take on this news, too?) Could you include a link to the source of this article? Thanks!
Hi Emi, welcome back! I think anyone who has brains likes an elegant woman more than a needle-woman. And the sexy girls on TV are not needles at all. So maybe fashion shows and magazines are not that big in the making of the ideal shape. Who knows? but measuring the spanish woman, that I think is full of potential. Maybe the pear-woman (so predominant in our peninsula) will win after all.
here's the link
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/24/spain.fashion.ap/index.html
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