After reading about the move towards curvy models (love how they avoid usage of the word fat) at Italian runway shows I wondered, is being shapely ok now? And what is shapely?

Sure there is still a healthy dose of the anorexic in modeling, but it looks like the real woman is back. No more eating salads fresh from the earth with a dab of salt water that chefs call dressing. No more avoiding that sinful cheesecake, from Magnolia’s or Junior’s (if you’re not from Brooklyn, you won’t understand -though I am starting to think Junior’s is a bit overrated-).

Armani and Prada proudly let the curvy models walk down the runways for these fashion shows. But are these ladies really curvy? There’s a real difference between the women I see in the Dove ads and the so-called “curvy models” walking the runway.

My gripe is, for a long time women were held to impossible standards of beauty (I learned this on my first photo shoot) and we go through it day in and day out. Now that the move is towards more shapely models, I am little disturbed by what the industry is calling curvy. What happens when a girl sees these models who are referred to as shapely and they themselves are bigger than the “new and improved” curvy models?

These are not the Dove models walking down the runway in Milan. These chicks still look rail thin.

You be the judge.

A couple of months ago I (and everyone who has a keyboard) wrote somewhere that cowboy boots are now a must have item. Now, everyone has these cowboy boots. Yes it’s getting increasingly harder to be fashionably unique in a world of 6 billion, but I would venture to say that the 5.999 billion of us miss “it” when it comes to having a unique style. So now the “it” item is no longer “it” anymore.

Let me demonstrate.

I walked into Old Navy yesterday, for the non-essentials: sox, mill-around tops, yadda..yadda..yadda, and what do I see on display? Cowboy boots.

It’s over and I don’t think I need to tell you why.

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Ok, at the beginning of Spring when the boho skirts came out it was a little annoying. I remember 9 years ago when they where broomstick skirts and only vegetarians and vegan hippies wore them. (I admit I was one). Then, by June, the skirts had sequins and sparkles being added, then full skirts with sequin scenes on them. I was waiting for the first cold day so these skirts which all the fashion clones were buying up in multiple colors.

Well now they’re here for the fall in darker colors and heavier fabrics, everywhere from Bergdorf to Wal-Mart. WHY!?!?!?! Ok, maybe on a 7 year old but, after the Limited Too they should be BANNED, collected and thrown into a bon-fire in the name of Fashion. Come on ladies let them go-Please.

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