Society has evolved as new fashions have emerged and today's standards of beauty reflect what society currently perceives to be in vogue. Fashion has also become more accessible to the masses. With the inclusion on online women's clothing stores, women not living in Toronto condos have as much chance of getting that new designer handbag as someone in a Fenelon Falls cottage. Members of fashion have been criticized in more recent years over fashions that seem to go to the extremes, with overly thin models and outrageous styles that seem unlikely to be reproduced in everyday style. Others have sided with the fashion industry, stating that fashion has always gone above and beyond and today's current extremes are what are actually in demand.
One of the most criticized aspects of today's fashion industry has to do
with models. The models currently seen within fashion tend to usually be very tall and extremely thin. In reality, only 5% of the world has a body type similar to this. Models have resorted to extensive dieting to keep their figures and many people worry that young people, who many look up to models, may also resort to such extremes. But, after all, the fashions on New York and Paris runways were not meant for an average person living in Riverdale, Toronto real estate, so why should the model have to look like them? Models and the clothes they wear are meant to illicit jealousy by teenages girls in Dundas homes and across the world. They're unattainable quality is what keeps them popular.
There is a call to the fashion industry to take a look at the models they are using and to adapt their fashions to fit "normal-sized" people. Some avenues of fashion have done so, by choosing to use models with a relatively
healthy weight as their runway stars and by using models that are full-figured
(what used to be known as plus-sized). Everything from growers supplies to mortgages have commercials with the "average Joe" these days. At CYSERA, we want to see
everyone healthy as well as comfortable with their personal style. We encourage young people to make healthy choices in their lives and to live for themselves, not for the views of others.
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