Timeless Beauty

[filkertom]

Thanks to meadbh7 for aiming us to The Judgment of Paris, a collection of eye-scorchingly hot plus-size models.

Comments

[aiela.livejournal.com]

Very nice! Thank you for the link.

[voiceofkiki.livejournal.com]

Hm... One of the women they hold up to be the epitome of plus-size beauty weighed just a bit under what I do currently at her heaviest. I've never thought of myself as anything but thin. I suppose height is a factor, though. Still, it doesn't change my opinion of myself. I don't care if I'm not a twig. Life's too short to eat rabbit food. :P

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Very nice.

[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

Nice pictures, rather creepy commentary. I sense in there what Amanda Marcotte calls a Nice Guy™.

[maiac.livejournal.com]

Plus size = not anorexic

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

On this site (disappointingly), plus size seems to indicate size 14, not size 24.

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

Well, there's one girl who's an 18/20. That's something.

[voiceofkiki.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Hence my above comment. I'm about a size 14. Like maiac said above, it seems they're using "plus size" as code for "doesn't have an eating disorder."

[knitmeapony.livejournal.com]

In the modeling industry, that's true. I believe a 12 is the beginning of 'plus sized model'.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's 8...

[knitmeapony.livejournal.com]

Teach me to listen to Tyra Banks.

[ericcoleman]

Oh yum

[mouser.livejournal.com]

It's all in the definition! (http://www.courting-disaster.com/d/20050729.html)

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Well said!!

[eleri.livejournal.com]

I'd like the site more if they didn't have those gawd-awful backgrounds

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

What interested me was the comment about the gypsy/peasant look being "resented and suppressed by the elite despite its popularity with the people". What I saw was that the look was deliberately turned into Skankville -- painted-on and transparent, and then aimed at teenagers. I'd happily wear gypsy tops and dresses, but not if I'm going to need multiple layers underneath to prevent being hauled in for indecent exposure!

[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

*tip o' the hat* :) -H...

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

FANTASTIC site find, Tom. Thanks for passing it along, I will be sure to send it around to others I know who should see it.