Do you think there is a correlation between average weight and idealized weight?

The evidence is thin on the ground.

This trend was present around here, at least for the last decade.

It's beggining to fade away and we can witness a return to more classical aesthetic canons:

Body shape

Moi j'aime pas les grosses

Et elles, elles les aiment?

Do you prefer this?



or this?

Skeletal versus skinny?

Well, skinny but not too much:

One thing that has happened is that people have somewhat redefined what they feel is "normal" weight. I mean regular folk, not the tabloids. Regular folk may be seeing size 18 as being "normal". Why? Because size 14 and up has been the average overall size for so long. Size 18, BTW, is either obese or the borderline between overweight and obese. It's not ideal or normal weight at all.

Tabloids, on the other hand, go to other extremes, and see a size 4 as being horribly overweight. It's bad when the tabs start saying people like Tori Spelling and the Kardashian sisters are models of normality, and anyone over a size 6 should be a plus size model.

For some perspective, here's a size chart: http://www.usatourist.com/english/tips/Womens-Sizes.html

Weird how the American sizes have changed so much over the years.

When I wore a European size 32, 30+ years ago, I wore an American size 8. Now a European size 32 (still the same size), is an American size 2. Mmmm, yeah. Don't think so.

They've relabelled those American sizes down significantly over the years. I try to always find clothes that have the European sizes in them, so I know what size I'm REALLY buying.

Gaunt does not get it.

I like a man with a little flesh on him.

I'm more into being healthy than how everyone looks. I just saw some research on how carriying up to 10 pounds extra is more healthy than being 10 pounds underweight.

Seeing lots of dead skinny people lately, anyway.

Well, Wally Simpson once observed that "..you can't be too rich or too thin..." at least I'm fifty percent.

Haven't bought anything in so long that I'm not certain what size I wear.

I'll still go with Sheldon's body types, however. I think we inherit our shape and size.