Alex Perry, you have let us down again…

Alex Perry you have let us down again! OK so you apologised and said you were ‘busy’ and didn’t notice how that dress looked on the skeletal model. Poor girl she looked so sick, is that the way we want to look, pale and emaciated?

I am a nearly 75 year old, with a few health issues, but I feel at least when I go out dressed for any event people don’t consider sending for an ambulance. A straight jacket perhaps as I admit I like to look a bit whacky. I love strong colour and have a joyful desire to wear fun clothes.

The fashion industry is just not listening. How many times do they need to be told that size 6 is crazy, size 10 is more a normal expectation. Yet even worse when you look at any shopping centre, the women there have not been size 10 since they were at school. So fashion gurus take note … Who are you aiming to please?

Certainly not the bulk of women out there.  I don’t mean we should all be complacent and just get fatter.  I eat sensibly and walk whenever I can, but I will never again be the size I was at 20, and yet I do enjoy looking at fashion. Except when the models look so ill it makes the mother in me want to put them to bed and feed them chicken soup.

So we know plus size might be going too far on the cat walk, clothes look better on the slim, but please, please stop showing us these revolting images, I felt ill watching the girl in white lace dress, I didn’t even notice the style of the dress, just the stick like legs and arms, and the sad face. So instead of thinking ‘I would love that’ I was left in despair, it is time now to stop this, no more excuses, just stop using sick models. Show us healthy happy girls in clothes that flatter. If not then I will be looking forward to the rapid demise of the fashion industry, they dug their hole it will be time for them to fall in it.

What do you think needs to be done about the health issues of models? How skinny is too skinny? 

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