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tara t wrote:

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XtinaStyles wrote:

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Also complaints about the word curvy being referred to as plus size.. I guess you find in insulting that your hour glass figure is being associated with people who actually carry more weight than you. I believe its a euphamism. Personally, as a size 12/14 I prefer it to FAT COW and other descriptive words that some prefer. 

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and not to speak for tara123, but she was saying that you can be a ( i'll use GAP as my example ) size 0 and be curvy or be a size 14 and be curvy.  you can also be a size 0 and be long and lean as well as being a size 14 and be long and lean.  no complaints about bieng plus sized, just saying that the way to describe a fit of jeans shouldn't be about your volume or wieght.  it should be waist and inseam or something like that.

 

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That's what I'm saying. I'm really sorry if it sounded offensive or mean-spirited, because that was not my goal at all. All I'm saying is that "curvy" is a shape, not a size. It would make just as much sense to call all slim women "big busted" or all large women "small hipped." Those two things sound silly because they are silly - your size doesn't dictate your shape. And I think calling all plus size woman "curvy" regardless of bust/waist/hip/etc ratio is just as wrong as calling all size 0 women apple shaped. To jump off of an idea that tara t brought up, I think that having a "curvy" jean style is a great idea, as long as it means they fit women with a more dramatic waist/hip ratio, and as long as it doesn't just indicate that the jeans are above a size 12 (or whatever).

It's just semantics. It's something that gets to me, and it has nothing to do with the size/shape of my own body. I'm all about not calling women FAT COWS. I just don't think misusing that word, which plenty of women of all dress size could use to describe the shape of their body, is the right word to use.

-- Edited by ttara123 at 00:04, 2008-10-29