A new fashion doll has been created by Nickolay Lamm which is being touted as the "world's first normal sized doll."
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| Lammily, created by Nickolay Lamm |
It is believed by many that the unrealistic proportions of today's Barbie dolls feeds the negative body image young girls have of themselves. In my opinion, the media (Hollywood, television, fashion designers) is way more responsible for promoting stick-thinness as the standard to achieve.
In my early years of doll collecting I happened to purchase some of
Tonner's Emme dolls and her fashions. However, I liked Tyler's proportions much better and soon sold the Emme items.
I'm not an overweight person but I grew up with the "you can't be too thin" mentality. Diets were a way of life along with diet pills in college and afterwards. I learned it from my mother. She didn't have Barbie dolls. Her generation of dolls were 'chubby-looking' things.
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| Madame Alexander (Composition) "McGuffey Anna" 1935 |
In the high fashion industry designers such as Jason Wu, for example, use half-dead, emaciated models to display their clothing.
Gianfranco Ferre model:
Hollow-eyed and gaunt,
the skeletal model stalked down the runway at the Gianfranco Ferré
fashion show in Milan last night wearing a dress cut in a deep V that
revealed her protruding clavicle and flat chest.
A
flurry of flashbulbs popped as photographers vied to get the best shot
and the line of fashion editors sitting front row scribbled furiously on
their notepads.
If ever there were a case of Emperor's New Clothes at fashion week, it was here.
Did
any one of the assembled crowd really think this model - bony cleavage,
dark circled eyes - looked good? Could they genuinely say that this
image was aspirational? And ultimately, would the model do what must be her main purpose here: sell these clothes to other women?
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2042345/Gaunt-model-shocks-Gianfranco-Ferr-Milan-fashion-show.html#ixzz2vgtPriWs
These designers have been known to claim that the clothes 'hang better' on stick figures. Seriously? I'm not saying that the clothes aren't gorgeous but when I see Mrs. Obama wearing a Jason Wu that was shown on a runway by a stick figure woman, Mrs. Obama and the fashion don't look as good. Of course she's had the dress custom altered to suit her because FLOTUS has a normal body. She would look ridiculous (and inappropriate) in the dress on the right. So why do I want to look like the model on the right? Sigh.
We are exposed to these bodies as the height of beauty and fashion when they are nothing but starving reflections of women.
I'm always amazed at how most models and movie stars looked in the 1940's through the 1960's. They had thighs and waists and arms.
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| Women Cast Members from the TV series Mad Men |
We're not talking Botticelli babes here, just normal healthy women.
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| The Three Graces by Sandro Botticelli |
Would I buy a Lammily Doll? Maybe, for a little cousin of mine, but not for my collection. It wouldn't fit in. Would you?
Read more:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/normal-barbie-doll-with-average-female-body-is-coming-to-life/284212/
