Word: subzeroã
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Dates: during 2006-2006
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...recent Newsweek article revealed that designer Nicole Miller plans to begin offering a size even smaller than those we’ve become accustomed to: “something tentatively called the ‘subzero?? for women with 23.5-inch waists and 35-inch hips.” Within the same article, readers’ attention was drawn to the increasingly popular fashion industry phenomenon of “vanity sizing,” which entails enlarging the size of the actual clothing, while allowing the number on the tag to remain unchanged. The result, which...
These developments have the potential to exacerbate a number of already disturbing trends in the culture of American women. The advent of the new size “subzero?? runs the risk of tempting women to aspire toward even lower, and by extension often much unhealthier weights for themselves, as the article notes. Lately, it is not unusual to hear about women aspiring to lose enough weight to fit a size two, a size much smaller than the previously common target size of six. Obviously this is not true for women of all cultures, as different subsets...
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