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Fashion For Every Shape and Size

By: MJ Hunt

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Are you a size 0? No? Me neither. Have you sometimes thrown your hands up in frustration at the fact that the world of high fashion seems solely developed for the super-skinny? Have you stopped trying to track the latest looks because you don't fit the body type the fashion world seems to cater to? I'm here to tell you that fashionable clothing is within every woman's reach, whatever your size or shape.

The first thing to understand is that the top level of the fashion industry, the designers who make couture collections featured at prestigious shows in Paris and New York, is not really about regular, everyday people.

The high-end designers, the ones whose clothes you see in fashion spreads or watch on fashion television programs, do create the trends every season. Their clothes are designed to fit professional models, and are geared toward making an impact on the runway. It's not unlike making costumes for a theatrical performance.

Eventually the major looks make it to stores through the designers ready-to-wear lines. As well, the prevailing trends get incorporated into the clothing designed more for the general public, such as that sold at trendy stores like H&M.

If you want to dress in current styles, by all means peruse the fashion magazines and websites, but take these as a blueprint for what you want to look for in stores that cater to your body type. Think of it as research, so you know what colours, cuts and styles are popular this season.

Most models, everyone knows, are tall and thin. Most women are not. You may be shorter than average, also known as petite. You may have an athletic build, which is notoriously difficult to find well-fitting clothes for. Or you may have a bigger body type, known in the industry as plus-sized.

But don't despair, there are clothing lines and stores that specifically cater to these and other shapes and sizes, and they make clothes that are designed to be not only comfortable, but current!

A well-known complaint for years has been that the fashion industry has created unrealistic and unattainable standards of beauty that do not reflect the needs of ordinary women.

Because of this, many fashion houses have made strong efforts to reflect and cater to the diversity of their customers, and provide stylish contemporary clothing for all shapes and sizes. Bigger women often felt that clothing made for them was designed merely for comfort, not beauty. That is definitely true no longer.

You can get a sense of the current fashion trends by going to the mall and checking out the trendier, designer stores. Once you have a sense of what's "in," pop over to a store that caters to your body type and see what they have to offer. Even better, you can really get an idea of the choices out there by searching online, where every clothing line is literally at your fingertips.

To sum it all up, don't feel that just because your body doesn't fit the stereotype of the fashion industry, you are necessarily excluded from being fashionable! Fashion is within everyone's reach, now more than ever!

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