Not at all! Some people are very narrow-minded about acceptable professional wear. Unless a high-ranking person you interact finds a problem with it, A-line skirts are fine, and some women prefer them. Not everyone has the goal of minimizing the volume of one’s clothes all the time.

The cultural imperialism of W. Europe has made its mark, but beauty standards are not universal.

If your preferences were universal, fat/regular people would have died out many, many years ago. Yet, folks are dating, marrying, and having children.

It’s amazing how as one’s self-acceptance grows, others’ lack of self-acceptanc becomes more obvious.

All right, i’ll name names. I am referring to a discussion in corporette.com

I worked in fashion very briefly and used the classifieds to find work. The classifieds included fit modeling jobs. Fit models are behind the scenes for production and manufacturing, not advertising. They are not in magazines or on runways. They have very specific measurements, and they have to maintain them, neither…

We unite ... at Nordstrom and/or Nordstrom Rack!

Yes, that’s the size & shape of fit models.

Nordstrom, if you’ve got $$$, and Nordstrom Rack, if you’ve got $$ is great for large shoes.

You are very close to being correct. That is the build of a fit model, but they have around B cups, not no boobs.

They’re made for 5'4" ladies wearing heels.

For real, I really wanted to call out these anti-bootylicious commenters on their unexamined racism. A-line skirts are perfectly acceptable business wear.

Really? Are you masculine of center? I have made peace with it, but it hurts when people call me “sir” because I am tall and flat-chested. In the US, breasts are seen as an important thing for a woman to have, considered a birth defect that should be surgically fixed by some, and more is considered better and more…

Ladies with literally no boobs often wear padding to fill out the empty space in their shirts.

They’re to feed babies.

Yeah, even if tons of retailers extended their size ranges, there’d still be lots of women in ill-fitting clothes due to shape reasons. It’s even worse as people get bigger because the possible shape reasons get bigger.

Not necessarily. The blog is mainly populated by ambitious corporate people and lawyers — people in highly paid, conservative occupations. They tend to be youngish (based on the survey), ascribe to the fashion model frame the ideal body and silhouette, type-A, detail-focused, hard-working people. Some value money and…

IKR! It’s sooo anarchist and countercultural to not want to f*** fat/regular women!

I love it when men act as if their personal preferences are universal. Health, youth, facial symmetry & harmony? Yes. Everything else is up for grabs.

Agreed with your original comment.