This makes me want to go to Spain
Feb. 12th, 2008 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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rednikki's twitter, Spain is mandating standardized clothing sized for women based on 3-D laser imagine of -GASP- real women. This of course comes after they banned super thin women from the runways and mannequins smaller than size 8 from shop windows.
http://www.sunherald.com/311/story/355567.html
On the one hand, maybe this is an example of the government meddling to much in the lives and business of its citizenry. On the other hand, I'd love to imagine what a world would be like where the images I saw in shop windows and magazines and television actually looked like the people that I see in my everyday life. Not to mention the joy I would experience at being able to enter a clothing store, rattle off my personal string of numbers/measurements, and actually get clothing that fits.
What would it be like if the simulacra we were encouraged to consume and emulate actually reflected humanity?
So -- spring break in Majorca -- any takers? Maybe Basque country?
rednikki's twitter, Spain is mandating standardized clothing sized for women based on 3-D laser imagine of -GASP- real women. This of course comes after they banned super thin women from the runways and mannequins smaller than size 8 from shop windows.http://www.sunherald.com/311/story/355567.html
On the one hand, maybe this is an example of the government meddling to much in the lives and business of its citizenry. On the other hand, I'd love to imagine what a world would be like where the images I saw in shop windows and magazines and television actually looked like the people that I see in my everyday life. Not to mention the joy I would experience at being able to enter a clothing store, rattle off my personal string of numbers/measurements, and actually get clothing that fits.
What would it be like if the simulacra we were encouraged to consume and emulate actually reflected humanity?
So -- spring break in Majorca -- any takers? Maybe Basque country?
