Nicoll Roberts, Chichester, West Sussex: I am a sales assistant for a fashion retailer that specialises in "plus-size" fashion, but it is great to see a company such as H&M promoting other body shapes, rather than the skinny size-zero catwalk "twiglets" we have become used to seeing.
There is nothing more unsexy than seeing someone of a super-skinny size picking their way fussily through a tiny bowl of salad, nothing more sexy than someone cooking a sumptuous, rich and delicious meal for their lover and them both enjoying eating it in an abandoned, sod-the-calories fashion.
There is precisely zero chance she will actually grow up believing that the cute boy will like her just as much if she's fat as if she's skinny with size DDs — junior high alone will take care of that.
Mr. Drankwater said his pre-waterfront life included dalliances with drugs, a sick mother, a short-lived marriage and a weight problem – he was 470 pounds with a 68-inch waist, and is now 150 pounds and too skinny for size 32 pants.
Whether a physician's assistant is forcing me to get an EKG because my weight and height don't correlate with what she's learned in med school, or I'm getting backhanded compliments from juice-crazed fashion insiders for being "so darn skinny," my size is always a hot topic.
Respect curve-less women of all sizes (skinny, average-sized, bigger).
The professional online model is skinny, sure — but size 4s, not zeros like many on the runway.
Everyone in the room laughed, even little ignorant Lydia, and he felt himself shrink back to size: skinny boy on quaking stool, squawking sidekick to the great man.
As dieters, we often get caught up in what we don't have (a certain waist size, skinny jeans, self-acceptance -- you name it).
The insightful reader continued: "Perhaps we older types can enlist fashion leaders with a sense of taste to revive elegance and also to help banish the following: miniskirts on middle-aged-plus women, leggings on all but ballerinas, skinny jeans in sizes beyond large, pole dancer shoes and dresses that could double as sausage casings".
