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Designers Design Their Clothes To Appeal To Ideals And Not Actual Women

Almost nobody fits the "perfect" body image, and designers don't care.

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Designers Design Their Clothes To Appeal To Ideals And Not Actual Women
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There's more than one body type for women. It's hard for women to understand that their body type is perfect when no clothes fit them properly. Personally, I've had struggles to find clothes that fit me properly. Like many women, I don't fit the ideal and desired "perfect" body type, the type that has a large chest, flat stomach, and a large butt, similar to the Barbie Doll body. Fashion designers don't make clothes that fit every body type, hurting women and the way they view themselves.

Fashion designers appeal to the most promoted body type, a woman with a larger chest, small waist, and large butt. They do so by designing and promoting clothes through celebrities such as Nicki Minaj and Beyonce, who have the money to obtain the "perfect" body type. Most women don't have the money Nicki Minaj or Beyonce have, so they can't get the same body type, which therefore hurts their self esteem. Women have gone so far as to wear contraptions similar to a corset that will give them a smaller waist, but will literally move their internal organs. Designers don't understand, or rather don't care, that they're hurting women all over.

I have personal experience with this issue. When I go bathing suit shopping, dress shopping, or even just shopping for normal clothes, I have a difficult time trying clothes on. Bathing suits don't fit me properly, dresses are too tight, and normal clothes don't fit me right. Designers design their clothes to appeal to ideals and not actual women. It's incredibly easy for me to get discouraged from shopping because these designers don't appeal to different body types.

There's more than one type of body for women. There are women who are curvier than others, women with larger or smaller chests, women with larger or smaller butts, and so many others. With the pressure of women to fit the ideal "perfect" body type, designers should realize that women don't fit that ideal, but they don't. They contribute to this pressure by designing clothes that appeal to this "perfect" body type, in turn letting women believe they are not perfect and to be perfect they have to fit in their clothes.

Designers easily discourage women. I've been discouraged numerous times myself, and I'm tired of it. I know that I'm not an unhealthy weight and it's not fair for me to feel horrible about myself when the designers are the ones who appeal to a body type that is almost impossible to naturally have. I know that I am not the only woman who feels this way, and it's time for designers to understand that people don't fit the ideal "perfect" body image when everyone is imperfectly perfect.

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