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How big is too big?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,178 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    God Rozie, you just have way too many points too rebutt...its too easy.
    Wibbs can do it for me :)

    Anyway, lets clear some stuff up and stop using weight as a gauge.

    Lets try body fat percentage or bf% - the real wibbly indicator.

    Rozie why are you claiming people don't like curvy women? Nearly every man does but you can by curvy and not overweight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    i think the important thing is that men love curvey women.
    after all, 99% of blokes here have looked at porn, and they arent exactly boyish now.

    on the other hand, no one likes a fattie. and im not talking Rubinesk here. im not talking chubby, im talking plain out 'my tits go down to my ankles and my belly overshadows my feet, and you can play olympic handball on my ass' fat.

    now thats just fetish territory.

    as for what rozie is saying, who fúcking knows...
    as for marylin monroe, come on now, one of the sex icons of last cetnury? hell, id do her twice!

    but it is true that the shape of clothes doesn not accurately reflect the size of a person. i know people who wear a size 16, which is considered on the large side, but only becuase they cant get their boobs into anything smaller from certain shops. it appears that half of the fashion houses on the main street are designed for the teeny waifs that now roam the streets waiting for any breeze to come and blow them up into the sky.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    [HTML]I have a 27-28 inch waist, but my breasts and hips are both 38-39 inches[/HTML]

    Any chance of a pic...? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭Aurther Hugh


    i think the important thing is that men love curvey women.
    Well, whatever a man likes is what a woman should be afterall. In reality most bloke I know fancy the skinnier girls and girls want to be the skinnier girls and in between that there is a lot of jealousy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,178 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Not fat doesnt mean not curvy
    Get that into you people!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,966 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Rozie wrote:
    That's a ****ing ridiculous thing to say. You can't compare the two.
    I can, and I just did.
    Having hair is a very masculine thing to have, which is why it isn't attractive. Being slightly large isn't, in fact, it's very womanly.
    having hairy arm pits is human, but very unattractive. Being "slightly large" means nothing; being FAT isn't womanly, it's ugly.
    That's your precise explanation. Now, offer one for fat people, please.
    "Precise explination"? What the hell are you babbling on about now? You want me to explain fat people? - Ok, the eat too much and don't exercise.
    Look at Marylin Monroe, or going back, most godesses - Aphrodite and even more so Gaia were depicted as being rather shapely, some even large.
    What ever happened to the large mistress figure?
    Indeed. Most women dipicted in earlier pictures (Pre/post renaissance) appear "chubby" (not FAT). Why? because that was attractive then. Famine and desiese were rife. People were chubby because the could afford food. There were considered more attractive, and could afford paintings of themselves etc..
    Why the change? Why are shapely women no longer attractive?
    Shapely women are attractive. FAT women aren't.
    It's not "the truth" - it's your personal opinion, dear ;)
    It is the truth. Get over it dear.
    Mine isn't so much of a personal opinion as a little push for global acceptance.
    How noble. Now if only you could lose the condescending tone, we could push for a Nobel peace prize.
    How is it denial? Denying that they're big? WHAT are they denying?
    I was sugesting that YOU may be in denyal.
    Should they just accept they're ugly and need to loose weight?
    Ughy is a harsh word, but if they are fat, and they wish to be attractive - Yes.
    And while I quite like larger women, it's not just because of my personal like that I think my opinion is valid. It's because well, it's ****ing cruel on people that just can't loose weight, or people that don't want to.
    The truth can hurt people. My advice to them is to deal with it. You can't live your life ignoring problems just because it might upset somebody.
    Exactly what a thread like this needs is people talking from real personal experience not just "I Like Anorexic girls because they're thin".
    "Real personal experience" but without being "****ing cruel on people that just can't loose weight, or people that don't want to".
    Let me get this straight, be open and honest about real life, but tip-toe around sensitive subjects? ....or is it that you just want me to apologise for not having the same opinion as you and shut up?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,966 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Rozie wrote:
    What I consider "slightly large", he'd consider ****ing huge. I consider "slightly large" to be 16+
    I'm not "up" on womens sizes, but your probably right judging by the rest of your post.

    This is halarious - I almost fell off my seat laughing:
    I care how other people feel about themselves.
    Bull****. You are a common male so you do not find it attractive. You lack the capacity to see anything beautiful which does not fit a certain mould.
    You care alright.
    I can find a fat girl just as attractive as a thin girl. You, cannot, because you are closed minded, or just do not like larger women.
    He's being open and honest about what he finds attractive. Fat girls don't do it for him. That's not being closed minded. I don't find men attractive, but I'm open minded, and accept homosexuality. I don't find fat women attractive, but I accept that some men do.
    unless it's essential to their health(which it ISN'T, diseases among fat people are much rarer than diet pushers would have you believe).
    That's just a lie.
    "Most people think they're unattractive, so I think they are too". Do you not see yourself working with the flock?
    ...ahh now I see. :rolleyes: In life, living "outside" the flock isn't cool. Being yourself is cool.
    If you happen to think in a way that differs to everyone else - good for you. If everyone else agrees with you - good for you. Trying to be someone/something your not, just because you don't want to appear to be "one of the crowd" is pathetic. You'll believe me when you've gone through puberty.
    I suffer from major self image issues and I don't need this crap just because I weigh a little more.
    ...as I said earlier "perhaps this is hitting a raw nerve for you, my suggestion would be: if you're going to let this get to you, or take it personally - don't read the thread"
    Leave behind the weak of the pack. Even most animals have evolved beyond that.
    emmm this is going OT, but again you're wrong. Most animals live by that one golden rule. (I say most, because there is probaby one instance. Dolphin's prehaps. I'd be amazed if there were any others.)
    I don't need to be told I'm ugly because I'm large. I can be. I'm not entirely unfit, and I'm surprisingly agile for my weight. Damn, now you're making me feel fat when I'm only pudgy. This is exactly what happens.
    This is supposed to be a discussion about "how big is too big? in terms of fashion etc." don't take it personally.
    I think that woman is beautiful. A little too foldy and perhaps a little too large for my liking, but in general, still beautiful.
    I find her very unattractive. Ugly is harsh - but I never would want to see her naked. Ever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭kittenkiller


    I think Zulu & Rozie'd make such a cute couple!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭kittenkiller


    Until they killed each other!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,304 ✭✭✭✭koneko


    Marilyn Monroe was curvy, not fat, so stop using her as your example for everything:

    http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/mmdress.htm

    At her "worst" she was 140lbs, so 200lbs+ people can stop using her as an example now.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭ARGINITE


    Marilyn Monroe was kinda curvy but more on the thin side of things tho.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,966 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    I think Zulu & Rozie'd make such a cute couple!
    :D Something tells me I'm not his/her type.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭*Page*


    seen some of Marilyn's dresses yesterday on the telly, some shots of her wearing them and then this hidious girl wearing one! now the girl in the dress was "fat" Marilyn was of a slender build with a wide a$$.

    she's the most beautiful woman ever!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Zulu wrote:
    emmm this is going OT, but again you're wrong. Most animals live by that one golden rule. (I say most, because there is probaby one instance. Dolphin's prehaps. I'd be amazed if there were any others.)

    Umm, I think most kinds of dogs (maybe not all) tend to look after the weak members of their packs. It's one of the traits which makes them a good companion for elderly or disabled humans. They tend toward loyalty to their packs.

    Ok, back on topic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Fishie wrote:
    No, I don't go with that theory... Cos that would make me a size 10 in general, which I'm not... I'm one of those girls who has that annoying shape where I have a tiny waist and relatively flat stomach, but I have wide hips... Makes jeans almost impossible to find, because they're either too big for my waist or two small for my hips - people always say "you'll have no problem giving birth!" but somehow I don't find that comforting when I'm despairing at ever finding anything to fit me

    I'm not trying to be funny I'm genuinely curious, but what size do you wear and where do you shop? I was thinking about this thread yesterday and I decided to measure myself and I measure 40-28-40. But despite the fact that my hips and chest are a lot bigger than my waist I can only wear size 8-10 clothing, anything else looks ridiculous on me. If I try a size 12 pants the waist falls down and the crotch hangs between my thighs and the thighs hang off me and the whole bottom gathers around my shins. I think you are quite tall, aren't you? So maybe that is why you can wear wider clothes and I can't, as on me if it doesn't fit properly on the waist it just falls down too much.

    I don't think I have a huge amount of problems finding clothing. Height is normally the most difficult factor. I just bought a pair of size 10 jeans which if anything are a little loose. Everyone has problems finding clothes to fit them exactly right. I don't think I have any extra difficulty. Lots of size 10 jeans will not get past my thighs but plenty do, I just choose a baggier leg.

    As for tops most slightly stretchy 8-10 tops fit me. They stretch around the chest and cling to my waist. If I wear baggy/too-big tops I tend to look fat and shorter, so I choose clothes that emphasise my waist. If I want to wear something made of non-stretchy material I wear a very supportive bra, as opposed to my usual balconette, this doesn't always work but there are shirts and other tops that are made for people with large busts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    Keira Knightly - slim
    Rachael Stevens - curvy
    Bridget Jones - fat


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭4Xcut


    Correction:Rachel Stevens-Perfect


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭*Page*


    Bridget Jones - fat

    nah she getting there but shes not fat!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭*Page*


    iguana wrote:
    I'm not trying to be funny I'm genuinely curious, but what size do you wear and where do you shop? I was thinking about this thread yesterday and I decided to measure myself and I measure 40-28-40. But despite the fact that my hips and chest are a lot bigger than my waist I can only wear size 8-10 clothing, anything else looks ridiculous on me. If I try a size 12 pants the waist falls down and the crotch hangs between my thighs and the thighs hang off me and the whole bottom gathers around my shins. I think you are quite tall, aren't you? So maybe that is why you can wear wider clothes and I can't, as on me if it doesn't fit properly on the waist it just falls down too much.

    I don't think I have a huge amount of problems finding clothing. Height is normally the most difficult factor. I just bought a pair of size 10 jeans which if anything are a little loose. Everyone has problems finding clothes to fit them exactly right. I don't think I have any extra difficulty. Lots of size 10 jeans will not get past my thighs but plenty do, I just choose a baggier leg.

    As for tops most slightly stretchy 8-10 tops fit me. They stretch around the chest and cling to my waist. If I wear baggy/too-big tops I tend to look fat and shorter, so I choose clothes that emphasise my waist. If I want to wear something made of non-stretchy material I wear a very supportive bra, as opposed to my usual balconette, this doesn't always work but there are shirts and other tops that are made for people with large busts.


    My waist is a 10 my chest and hips/bum are a 14. i cannot fit into size 10 jeans because my but is a 14 not a 10!

    this use to be a big problem! my tshirts were out of shape a round the chest area if i wore a 10 or i'd look huge in a 14.

    my fashion now means i have to wear t shirts with fitted shirts over then to show my figure!
    and in trousers forget it unless it a 14 and sits on my hips... i cant wear jeans at all they look stupid!!

    for years all i wore was baggys t's baggy jeans and hoodies..

    not all girls.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    Ok, I've read practically all of this topic and refrained from posting, but now I'm interested in this.
    I did a google image search for "curvy" and the second piicture that came up was of a certain *ahem* escorts site. She calls herself "Curvy Cassandra" but to be honest, I dont find this curvy, I find it fat, and its also fairly unattractive.
    What do other people think, does this woman fit the "curvy" bracket, or is she fat?

    cass01.JPG


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    I Find that picture in the "Very curvy/pushing fat" category, but still quite nice :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    Really?

    I dont like it at all. The flab on her back is just not sexy at all, I know the bra might accentuate that just under it, but *do so at your own risk* thinking of that naked is just...no...I cant do it.
    I will admit I probably prefer "skinny" in most people here's opinions, and I know I have high standards, but a flat stomach is just too damn sexy. Although I dont like the boney look either, as someone else saud, Rachel Stevens = perfect!
    I'm also quite fond of Salma Hayek, who I wouldn't consider thin, she'd match my estimation of sexy "curvy".

    oscars.jpg


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,174 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    dar83 wrote:
    Ok, I've read practically all of this topic and refrained from posting, but now I'm interested in this. I dont find this curvy, I find it fat, and its also fairly unattractive.
    What do other people think, does this woman fit the "curvy" bracket, or is she fat?
    I would be with you on this one and call it a bit too much of a good thing for me. The back rolls(shudder) and the arms are a bit too thigh like for my tastes. TBH it would be her face that would put me off more though.

    Agree with you re. Ms Hayek. Great hips and waist on that woman.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Wibbs, I wonder did the article you mentioned earlier (about women's shapes changing) have any information about why?

    A textiles expert told me once that the antique dresses in the museum were unwearable, because (a) they were made for women under 5' tall, and (b) all women since the Greek era were put into stays (corsets) from the age of two, which forcibly changed their shape. In Victorian times - the heyday of the hourglass figure - a popular plastic surgery was to have two ribs removed at the bottom of the ribcage, to allow the waist to be nipped in and tiny.

    I know that my own grandmother had a 16" waist as a young woman, which doesn't sound healthy to me at all, especially as she was 5'10".

    Did the article say whether men's shape was changing?

    Interesting that Aphrodite seemed fat, too - to me, she doesn't look fat, she looks fit. But then, that's the look I like, in men or in women - fit.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,174 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    A quick google for corsets..http://www.eucosy.org/uk/corset/history/
    http://costume.dm.net/corsets/history.html.

    It seems the corset as we know it(restrictive), didn't really come into vogue 'till Victorian times. There's no evidence the ancients used them at all, so the idea that women since Greek times where forcibly shaped by corsets is a bit of a leap. People were smaller in the recent past, mainly due to diet and other factors. It also depended on social class as the poor were generally shorter than the more affluent. I recall an article I read that showed that affluent people around the 12th century where pretty much the same height as ourselves due to a very good diet high in protein. they liked their women willowy back then. Troubadours described women having narrow backs like rabbits as being beautiful(don't ask I've a weird memory for crap like this :)).

    When I look at my own family, my great grandparents where all above 5' 6" in the women and over 6" in the men. Not exactly short arses.

    Apparently men's shapes are changing, but not to the same degree as women's. Men are getting taller and heavier around the waist. Again due to diet and changes in exercise patterns.

    Another thing I read once was that in Europe, hunter gatherers(men and women) were taller with better bone densities than the farmers that replaced them.

    As I found with a quick search, Rozie's idea that artistic representations of Aphrodite being fat was far from the truth. As you said a fit shape is what is considered attractive by the sexes throughout history with some local distortions due to fashion.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭*Page*


    Obesity and Emaciation
    Primitive peoples still gauge female beauty by sheer bulk and brides to be go through excessive fattening. Hottentot women are celebrated examples of women with excessive fat deposits in the buttocks. In contrast western brides go through an equally gruelling slimming regime to achieve a sylph like figure forever commemorated by wedding photographs and video film.

    Emaciation has now become the ultimate symbol of achievement and affluence.
    Clothing throughout the ages.

    The Ancient Egyptians
    Basic male clothing for the Old Kingdom, 2686-2181 BC, was a woven loincloth wrapped around the hips and held at the waist by a belt, called a girdle. A cape was sometimes worn on the shoulders.

    By the time of the Middle Kingdom, 2133-1786 BC, a long garment called a kalasiris developed. For men it was a skirt worn at the waist; for women it was worn under or over the breast and sometimes held with a strap, or was a full-length garment that sometimes had sleeves. The exposure of the female breasts was relatively common among the ancient Egyptians as it was with Cretan women of the Minoan civilization.

    The kalasiris and the cape became the standard dress for all ancient Egyptians. The usual fabric was natural off-white linen, some of which was so finely woven that it was transparent. The Egyptian method of weaving gold thread into fabric is still an unknown art.
    The laboring classes wore garments shorter for convenience at work. Nobles, priests, and royalty wore the longer version elaborately pleated and draped. Much of the elaboration and color of the costumes came from belts, collars, and headdresses. Wide collars and other adornments were of gold and semi-precious stones or glass. Black wigs and Kohl, a dark pigment, were used by both men and women to outline the eyes. Sandals were worn on the feet.


    The Minoans
    Although the loincloth of the Minoan men of Crete was similar to that of the Ancient Egyptians, women's fashions were unique. They wore tiered and gathered bell-shaped skirts and either fitted bodices or brief jackets that showed their breasts. The hair of both men and women was worn long.

    cont..
    http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/7631/costume1.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭*Page*


    Marilyn Monroe - Her perfect natural hourglass body for the 1950s.
    Her body ideal would today be considered too heavy for today's icons of beauty


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭*Page*


    Corset Restrictions
    One of the greatest restrictions placed on women has been corsetry. Severe lacing restricts movement and can damage internal organs and impair health. Female emancipators of the early 20th century used pictures which showed the position of the female internal organs with and without corsetry. Pictures of deformed rib cages were also used illustrate how breathing was impaired. They used the evidence to support their arguments for condemning the corset. There is considerable thought that such images of wasp waist were enhanced by artistic licence.

    Small waists did exist, but were usually on young girls and needed 'training'. Today when women take to corsets it can take about 2 years to achieve a gradually smaller waist using lacing methods. Goths are very fond of corsets in their fashion style.

    The unnatural hourglass figure.
    Images which suggested a woman's internal organs before and after restraining in tight corsetry in the Victorian era.




    Recent medical examinations of females corseted today in actual Victorian corsets show how the women had no energy and lacked breath when given lung tests. Once the corset was undone the women felt energised again.

    The test is not a fair test as women did not simply lace immediately to a 16 inch waist, they trained the waist over a period of years. Over 2 years a 22 inch waist can be gradually reduced to a handspan by gradual increments of the lacing. It would take about a year of not wearing a corset for the internal organs to settle back to the natural position. But back they would go.

    First Corsets
    Corseting has existed for thousands of years. The first recorded corset came from Crete. The Cretan woman stands proudly bare breasted and the corset is obviously a decorative part of her underwear. Madonna's imagery and use of bustiers is not new, it is merely a revived fashion which has had mass media coverage and so become universally adopted. However she was astute enough and clever enough to put the style across in the 1980s and make it her own in the 20th century.

    Corsetry and body contouring is so important to fashion that we have a whole section devoted to undergarment history.


    all information came from this site!
    http://www.fashion-era.com/beauty_is_shape.htm


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,174 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Bleedin hell *Page* fair bit of research there :)
    *Page* wrote:
    Obesity and Emaciation
    Primitive peoples still gauge female beauty by sheer bulk and brides to be go through excessive fattening. Hottentot women are celebrated examples of women with excessive fat deposits in the buttocks.
    In hottentot(more correctly Bushmen/women and some other african groups) a genetic trait called steatopygia causes accumulation of fat on the buttocks and thighs. IMHO it would be a local genetic difference that wouldn't have much bearing on attractiveness of body types worldwide. Even then their waist is smaller than their hips. Excessive guttage is considered unattractive in 99% of cultures.

    The fattening up before marriage in these cultures is more to do with preparing for pregnancy. Food supplies can vary through the year so a heavier woman has more chance of carrying the baby to term, even if there's a short famine.
    *Page* wrote:
    Corseting has existed for thousands of years. The first recorded corset came from Crete. The Cretan woman stands proudly bare breasted and the corset is obviously a decorative part of her underwear.
    Well it's not too clear if it's a corset in the restrictive sense that we think of today, but I take your point.

    It also re-enforces the idea that from far back a waist smaller than the hips was desirable in women. Knocks the idea of fat Aphrodite etc into touch.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭*Page*


    it was a corset in the restrictive sense, have you ever wrn a corset?

    do you know the difference between a corset and a Brassières?

    Greek Corsetry
    Greek women were corseted. Under the Greek Chiton a leather band style corset was worn and this gave definition to the hips and bust. From birth, girls were swaddled. For six months their arms and legs were bound in swaddling cloths restricting their movement and keeping limbs straight. Adolescent Greek girls were forced to keep trim. Their Greek mothers used woollen bands to keep the developing body slim.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭*Page*


    16th Century Iron Corsets
    By the start of the16th century Spanish fashions influenced Italian and English ladies. An iron hinged armour like corset was worn to flatten the body giving a smooth outline beneath gowns. The iron corset must have been exceptionally uncomfortable and heavy to wear and could only have been worn by Elizabethan ladies not doing any form of heavy work. Their only benefit seems to be that they produced the incredibly small waisted, elongated flat chested smooth line torso. This was illustrated in paintings of great Elizabethan ladies wearing fabulous structured bejewelled gowns.

    Corsets of the late 16th century would be more recognizable to us today than the iron version. These later corsets incorporated materials such as whalebone, bone, wood and flexible steel. The patterns on the corsets showed the placement of the chosen support and were elongated after a trend set by the boyish figure of Queen Elizabeth I.


    will i carry on??


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    Aphrodite%20of%20Knidos.jpg
    Chunky thighs&hips

    12.jpg
    Wide body

    venbath.jpg
    Check out the spare tyres

    What I meant about the Aphrodite thing is that she is not as slim as the modern image of beauty, and she has weird-looking breasts in most representations of her


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭*Page*


    sorry, but whats weird looking about her breasts?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Rozie


    I define fat as when you notably have a round belly sticking out. That's what I was always taught was fat, what made sense to me to be fat, and what I continue to believe is "fat". Anything less is stocky or pudgy.

    I adore the figures posted. I love those natural, not overbearing folds of fat.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭kasintahan


    I want to look something like this (Statue of David).
    Only with smaller hands and larger knob.
    perfectman.jpg

    I've less rigid designs for the ideal female.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    Rozie wrote:
    I adore the figures posted. I love those natural, not overbearing folds of fat.

    Eugh.

    Each to their own, but they're just one of the last signs of her letting herself go (too far), and a preview to the flab show to which you'll be the recipient if nothing is done about it soon.
    Everyone gets them when they're sitting down to some extent, but when they persist when standing, thats when you know she's fat, and to me that is nowhere near attractive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,966 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Rozie wrote:
    I define fat as when you notably have a round belly sticking out. That's what I was always taught was fat, what made sense to me to be fat, and what I continue to believe is "fat".
    ...well that certainly is fat...
    Anything less is stocky or pudgy.
    ...and thats still unattractive.
    I adore the figures posted. I love those natural, not overbearing folds of fat.
    uggghh <shivers> "folds" of fat in any form are repulsive. I can only imagine they are the female equivalent to hairy sholders (or some such).


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    kasintahan wrote:
    I want to look something like this (Statue of David).
    Only with smaller hands and larger knob.
    perfectman.jpg
    .

    wasnt david only 14 when that was done??

    his body was undeveloped leaving his hands larger than they should be.
    and other items smaller.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    *Page* wrote:
    wasnt david only 14 when that was done??

    his body was undeveloped leaving his hands larger than they should be.
    and other items smaller.

    I always wondered why he had such a small one...


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,174 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    *Page* wrote:
    wasnt david only 14 when that was done??

    his body was undeveloped leaving his hands larger than they should be.
    and other items smaller.

    I seem to remember that the hands and head are bigger because michelangelo took into account the angle that the viewer would see the statue (from below). It's a perspective thing apparently. Willy wise I'd reckon that was to keep the moral majority types happy at the time(or his patron had a small one).
    do you know the difference between a corset and a Brassières?
    Yea, the latter is easier to remove. :) Anyway by your research women from antiquity have sought to reduce the size of their waist as a small flat one was preferable to a fat one.
    I adore the figures posted. I love those natural, not overbearing folds of fat.
    Well the figures posted are a lot smaller than the woman in the website you posted before and held up as an example. They're in the heavier end of the healthy scale not clinically obese.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭kasintahan


    *Page* wrote:
    wasnt david only 14 when that was done??

    his body was undeveloped leaving his hands larger than they should be.
    and other items smaller.

    That would probably explain part of it.

    But I do know from a miserable time studying art for the junior cert (years ago) that the hands & feet on paintings and sculptures are always represented disproportionally to the rest of the body. Something to do with psychological perception based on the number of nerve endings. Ever since then it's been annoying me.

    Besides, I've never seen a 14 year old with arms and legs like that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭*Page*


    david was bassed on one of the helpers for Michelangelo, so they would be well built and strong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Velvet Vocals


    Well, I'm about 5'7(ish) and a size 18 on the bottom and 16 on the top, but I think I look pretty good, people always say I carry it well and I never get any complaints from men, (or at least I never did before I met the love of my life and had interest in other men)
    But I would like to come down to a size 12/14 combo and sometimes I see women with great figures and I just long to have one too. I don't know if that's just society's pressures making me long for that or if it's what I really want. I mean my weight is not at a point were my health is at risk or anything and I'm comfortable and I have nice clothes, but there are times when I find it hard to get a size in something I like or when I look in the mirror and just hate what I see.
    For something that really should matter that much I seem to spend a huge amount of time thinking about it! :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Rozie


    Zulu wrote:
    ...well that certainly is fat...

    ...and thats still unattractive.

    uggghh <shivers> "folds" of fat in any form are repulsive. I can only imagine they are the female equivalent to hairy sholders (or some such).

    Stocky and pudgy are just plain "Unattractive" now? I know each to his own, but that's just plain closed minded.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Rozie


    dar83 wrote:
    Eugh.

    Each to their own, but they're just one of the last signs of her letting herself go (too far), and a preview to the flab show to which you'll be the recipient if nothing is done about it soon.
    Everyone gets them when they're sitting down to some extent, but when they persist when standing, thats when you know she's fat, and to me that is nowhere near attractive.

    That's hardly fat at all.... I like those folds because it shows there is actually SOME meat on her. Anything less is too thin to me, and not healthy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    Rozie wrote:
    That's hardly fat at all.... I like those folds because it shows there is actually SOME meat on her. Anything less is too thin to me, and not healthy.


    Hardly fat at all? :eek:

    Its pure fat! Thats exactly what it is and why it looks like that. :confused:

    If you find that attractive then fair enough, but dont try and say it isn't fat, because you just come across as ignorant/ close minded as you seem to find other people to be on the subject. :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Rozie


    dar83 wrote:
    Hardly fat at all? :eek:

    Its pure fat! Thats exactly what it is and why it looks like that. :confused:

    If you find that attractive then fair enough, but dont try and say it isn't fat, because you just come across as ignorant/ close minded as you seem to find other people to be on the subject. :rolleyes:

    It isn't fat. I don't honestly know how you could think any amount of fat constitutes the person themselves to be labelled as "Fat". Just shows how much the media has affected you. I have more fat in my ass alone and most people I know don't consider me that fat.

    Being closed minded is writing off anyone that doesn't fit the exact mould that society sets for them.

    Did I say thin people couldn't be attractive? No. I just said it wasn't fair to write off larger women and it's mainly due to prejudice than actually not finding them attractice.

    Do you even know what pictures I'm talking about...?

    That woman you posted earlier is most certainly not fat. Full figured, yes, but fat, no. She doesn't have a round belly noticably sticking out, therefore, not fat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,966 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Rozie wrote:
    Stocky and pudgy are just plain "Unattractive" now? I know each to his own, but that's just plain closed minded.
    This is my opinion. That is what I find attractive/unattractive. Is it close minded? - Perhaps, but unfortunatly thats the nature of attraction.

    Tell me; if you something repulsive, does that make you closed minded? (That appears to be your logic - sounds limited dosen't it? :rolleyes: )

    Stocky and pudgy are unattractive traits, that dosen't mean you can't be attractive if you're pudgy, human attraction is a little more complex than that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 607 ✭✭✭DAEDULUS


    Full figured? bull****..She does have a noticable belly sticking out..and is probably,by bf% terms...boardering obesity..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,966 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Rozie wrote:
    That woman you posted earlier is most certainly not fat. Full figured, yes, but fat, no. She doesn't have a round belly noticably sticking out, therefore, not fat.
    There's more to being fat that having a "round belly noticably sticking out". The pic you're talking about (of the lady wearing the bra at the top?), she was fat. When you have rolls standing up - you've got fat.


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