It’s about how you find your body most attractive and dressing to enhance that shape (or part). If this isn’t how you want to look, don’t wear this style. But some people do want to have this shape and like getting advice on how to achieve it. I don’t see why we all have to jump on mo pie for this one.

I say thanks for the link. :)

America is definitely thinner than when she first started (watch Real Women Have Curves or even the first pants movie), but she’s still not exactly Hollywood skinny, she actually has a curvy shape. I think she’s really pretty.

In other words, under normal circumstances according to patriarchy, America Ferrera is not good enough to be deemed worthy of existing by merit of not having an appropriate body type – aka, sexy and thin – so she must jump through fashion hoops in order to render her body appropriate for consumption by society.

No

No no no.

Not good, not positive, not anything worthwhile.

We can’t stamp out fat and body hate, and I mean TRULY stamp it out, until bodies are seen as worthwhile simply by merit of being. Dressing the way you wish to dress should be fun for you, and not something done so your “shape” will finally be appropriate.

Also, what if we’re not “as naturally beautiful as America”? (Which the article presupposes we might not be.)

And then there’s the sample dress at the bottom of that article, with the Yu Clothing dress worn by a woman with barely any body fat at all.

Not so much with the FA.