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vox · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Location: Jeollabukdo

As I watch westernization in Korea, I wonder to whom else this would be of interest...?

Skinny models wearing thin in fashion shocker
Tue Sep 12, 11:43 AM
By Andrew Hay

MADRID (Reuters) - The world's first ban on overly thin models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions at other venues.

Madrid's fashion week has turned away underweight models after protests that girls and young women were trying to copy their rail-thin looks and developing eating disorders.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/12092006/6/n-odds-skinny-models-wearing-thin-fashion-shocker.html

Hapkido-In · Joined: 24 Jun 2006

Spain, first legalized gay marriage and now banning thin models.

Talk about taking steps in the right direction. Way to go, Spain.

Delirium's Brother · Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject:

In Argentina, design houses are not allowed to make only waif and petite sizes, but must supply a full range of clothing sizes. It's a new law there.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Lately there have been a growing number of anorexic-looking celebrities. Posh Spice and Nicole Ritchie are the worst. That sort of body type has to be discouraged to keep others from doing it. Anorexia is contagious.

It's gotten to the point where women are obsessed with weight but men just don't care anymore. I think the ideal bodytype might actually be starting to gain size now.

Hyeon Een · Joined: 24 Jun 2005

I think thin chicks are hot. (Except when they snap).

Madrid sucks.

ariellowen · Joined: 19 Apr 2006

There is probably a word for this sort of nazi-stuff, I don't know what it is, maybe just "being lawed into a tiny little padded box."

I've heard that in Canada straight-razors and fire-crackers are illegal, also, I've heard children in America must ride in child-seats in the back seat of cars until they're twelve years old.

Rules, rules, rules.

Well each to their own, who am I to say, if some people want to live in ultra-lawful societies, that is up to them; just too bad they feel the need to force their neurotic fear onto every other space on earth. But then there will always be subversives and anti-social personalities to keep things just a little bit unpredictable.

shevek · Joined: 29 Jul 2003

They oughtn't to make a law about how skinny a model can be, but if the people in Madrid who are paying for the show don't want models who look a certain way, it's their choice.
Most people don't hire fat models either based on their fat look.

ariellowen · Joined: 19 Apr 2006

Canadian Club · Joined: 12 Aug 2006

firecrackers illegal in Canada? nooooo

Kiwi Tart · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Location: Seoul

Novernae · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

Neither fire crackers nor straightrazors are illegal in Canada. The former are controled though.
As for the child thing. There are rules about that (in Canada at least, if not the States), but I don't know if they are laws or seafety recomendations (but I imagine that in the case of an accident parents could be charged with neglegence for not following them).
The recomendations are that no child under 12 sit in the front seat, since it's simply not safe. Also, any child under a certain height should sit in a booster seat to bring them up high enough so they won't be killed by the seat belt. Any child under a certain age must be in an appropriately sized car seat (the full seat meant for babies). Don't know the specifics though.

There are a lot of really stupid parents out there.