Fashion: Curves are back, and the Clothes to match!
It turns out that its okay to be curvy (something most of us women know for awhile now!) but even more significant is that designers are acknowledging this and are beginning to make curvier clothes now! About time!
Thanks to the likes of Mad Men's Christina Hendricks (right), who has been topping best-dressed lists at awards ceremonies since last year's Emmys, the curvier woman is back on trend and hopefully here to stay.
Since the 90s and the stick thin Kate Moss generation, the trend for curvier and plus-sized models tried to break through to the catwalk but the majority of models were waif-like - the worst part being that naturally curvy girls with hips, bums and busts around the world where starving themselves to look like these waifs, or boys.. Why?
Accessory Designer and better known wife of the British Prime Minister Samantha Cameron's cold-faced reaction (left) to the super-skinny models at London
Fashion Week said it all and was not the only sign that Britain, for example, is sick of the craze
for being as thin as possible.
Christina Hendricks' popularity marks a return to old school preferences when curvy was
in and hourglass actresses like Marilyn Monroe had the ideal figures.
Nigella Lawson, Scarlet Johansson and Salma Hayek are also
spearheading the trend that will see women up and down the country
breathing a big sigh of relief.
According to the Daily Mail, Debenhams spokeswoman Michelle Dowdall said: 'It looks like big busts, big hips and narrow waists are on their way back. Delighted to hear this, not that I was ever a waif trend-follower (!) but it may just dismantle this crazy jagged relationship between image and dieting. Roll on the age when women looked like real women or like these women below, (L-R) Jane Russell, Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardener !!
