You would be surprised.

I see stories like this every year. There are a couple of things to keep in mind:

I went to London in May, and this is going to seem awfully pedantic and tangential, but a UK Size 16 is no longer a US Size 12. It's pretty much just a US Size 16 now.

I go back and forth on the whole, "People who don't fight don't truly love" thing. Do I get into screaming matches with the Cardinal the result in broken glass and blood? No. Fuck no.

His brain just randomly generated a "large black man" for him to call upon. Which is weird, but apparently marrying Paula Patton made him an honorary black man, so it's all cool.

It's not a take-down of Bosworth, it's a take down of the fashion and magazine industry.

Exactly — she's a soft, safe option for teens and pre-teens who want to look pretty and somewhat polished. Nothing wrong with that.

Yeah — I'm more saying that she put out her PR team's statement, even though she was genuinely getting thin to be fashionable.

And I feel like Lauren, bless her, has actually visibly worked at this and has her own empire. Instead, Kate is everybody's muse.

I never know if it's the assumption that I must be poor, or just the simple fact that they don't want my fatness in there, dirtying their merchandise for prettier people. In a clothing store that doesn't go above size 10, I can see why they wouldn't want to help me (I probably won't buy anything, obviously), but…

Not that this would have been acceptable anywhere, but I'm rolling my eyes at Banana Republic trying to play the "It's MUCH too expensive for you" card.

Except that she's been talking about how her extreme weight loss is "just a temporary stress thing" for a while now. In a sense, by turning herself into a fashion socialite, she is promoting that body image.

mte. Janelle *makes* style, Bosworth simply follows it. Give the innovator the spotlight.

Thank you, Dodai.

It's an interesting question. My friend's mother is the manager at Holt Renfrew downtown (the closest thing Western Canada has to Barney's or Saks) and she went into the store the day she got the job, after nearly 20 years of running the downtown Hudson's Bay Company and decided to see what the current Holt sales…

lmao. Ugghh, that's the worst. I had a similar thing with a WalMart employee in the makeup section who made a point of literally standing in the aisle and staring at me while I tried lipsticks on the back of my hand. When I came up to pay, she said, "Where's the other one?" and I looked at her, confused, and said,…

It was pissing rain and I was the only person in the store. But I do see your point, and I agree with the "rich people often don't dress like it" comment. The fact is that people who really have built wealth didn't get there by spending $300 on jeans, by and large.

I suspect it's a bit of the "I'll use my tiny power where I can" syndrome. If you can act as the gatekeeper between people and "luxury" items, then you have some small measure of power and control.

It can if it's fraud, which is what they're claiming they suspected.

I'm not defending the actions of the store. I'm explaining why they couldn't "approach" her until afterwards.