Size Zero on the Highstreet!!!

Ok so walking through H&M you expect to see the usual sizes, so from size 6-26, you don't however want to go in and find a Size 0. I find highly distressing that the British high street is selling clothing that is so small that it's almost childlike. Now we've seen celebrities and models striving to be this size and I find it extremely scary. The fact the entire fashion industry is still trying to make women feel that they must be a ideal weight and size is flawed and in many ways irresponsible.Many of these ideals come from magazine and the media, however you cannot tell just by looking at the picture that the model is truly that size in real life. The picture above of Kelly Osbourne has been airbrushed using Photoshop or a similar program, for a radio one show, to make her look like a size 0 and to me she looks absolutely disgusting, instead of being her usual curvaceous self she's now just skin and bone. If this is the ideal that we have to adhere to then maybe it's better break away from the ideal body image.  With the average size of women in the UK going up it makes you wonder whether all this imaging is having an adverse effect. It now should be that the fashion industry take account for the amount of people that they are affecting with their modified images of the models. It's time for the fashion world to sit up and welcome diversity within the modelling industry to make sure that we show all sizes of people. I know that many designers are begining to use size 12 models on the catwalks. The two models opposite were both in a reality TV show, and Miss Hunter (above) was critised for having "stocky" thighs and that she wasn't taking her diet and exercise regime seriously enough whereas the size 0 Miss Berglund was praised for having the sensational body from modelling! 

At the end of the day I'd rather look at  a "normal" size person walking down the catwalks of the world rather than a skeletal figure. Although some designers say that a size 0 to size 6 is easier to dress, it doesn't make it right to make women strive to achieve the illusive ideal.