Pamela

I've never forgotten last year's thread about lovely Malaika Meder modelling for the New Zealand label The Carpenter's Daughter. It featured what I consider to be the most beautiful, sensual image of a voluptuous vixen indulging herself that has ever been created.



Therefore, I remembered the model's name when she turned up in a new article about the difficulties that curvy girls experience when shopping.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle...jectid=10783537

The whole article is worth a read. It describes an experiment run by a New Zealand newspaper, an experiment of the kind that various magazines have embarked on in the past:


Alas, the results turned out to be every bit as disheartening as other such candid studies have shown.


And remember: this is the reception that a beautiful full-figured girl gets. Imagine the experience that average plus-size women have, who are often much larger than Malaika. It's undoubtedly far worse.

That's why the following excuse, used by one store in a feeble attempt to justify its anti-plus discrimination, is so absurd:


Well, for heaven's sake, of course there's no demand, when any time a plus-size girl goes into such a store, she's made to feel patently unwelcome. Add to that the fact that the options are so minimal, if they exist at all, and it's no wonder that full-figured women don't want to set foot in such stores. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

But of course, the truly appalling aspect of this is that the store owners don't want there to be demand for size 16+. They want to shun the curvy shoppers.

It's an intolerable situation.

The article quotes Whitney Thompson, ever ready to offer a pro-curvy perspective, as offering one sensible course of action that curvy girls can take, when faced with such blatant discrimination:

Yes. Exactly so. It's not enough to simply avoid an offending label. That simply plays into their hands. Better to shame any store that behaves in such an appalling manner. The bad PR will sooner compel a change in attitude than anything else would.

Incidentally, the article comes with an attractive picture of Malaika:



Any store should be so lucky as to have such an attractive, well-built girl walk through its doors. If the store owners had any sense, they would treat such a shopper as the princess she is, and hope to keep her coming back.