P is for Plus size....

Plus size models on the catwalks at London Fashion Week...yes i gasped as well, but it was true thanks to Mark Fast.

You would think this would be a good thing, a positive ad for the larger girl and a note to all aspiring skinnies, that it is ok not to be like the supermodels fashion exposes us to on a daily basis.

For me, however and i'm sure many of you, it just confirmed for me that girls of a certain size really shouldn't be wearing knitted body-con, a look which is hard to pull off even by the giraffes of this world. Maybe it was because of the dresses they were wearing? Maybe because Fast chose to use the sterotype skinny models aswell, but the larger girls just didn't look good.

Don't get me wrong...i'm all for plus size models on the catwalk, i think we need to do something to change this idea that to look good you must be thin, before too many of our young girls get distorted body images...but... don't think this was the best attempt at that.

If he had perhaps used all plus size girls it would have been fine, but it was the mix of the two, with the higher ratio leaning to the skinnies, that made the rest stand out like saw saw thumbs!

I think the bigger factor should be not just getting larger role models out there, but showing how you can dress to suit your body shape, whatever size you are.