Comments on: New Models for John Lewis

By: Ethelene Morlas

Ethelene Morlas — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:36:04 +0000

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By: Vivien Greene

Vivien Greene — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:32:40 +0000

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By: Ponytail

Ponytail — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:20:36 +0000

Any reason John Lewis aren’t using the new model at their flagship store ? ‘Cause I’ve been to Peterborough and I can’t imagine anyone thinks a revolution is going to start there. It would have been a much better idea to put the new mannequins in their largest store, upfront, where more people could have seen it.

By: The Stickler

The Stickler — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:32:36 +0000

“The current mannequins used by John Lewis are equivilant to a US size 10.”

I agree with everyhting… but surely you meant “equivalent”?

Hooray for bigger models and for better spelling! :)

By: Em

Em — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:35:14 +0000

By the way, given her height (5’8″) and the BMI they’re stating, her weight must 130 pounds.

I think there is some confusion over British and US sizes in this entry, too. The “bigger” models they are planning to use in the future are British size 10, which is an American 6 or 8, so, nothing that spectacular, really, for non-catwalk models.

By: Em

Em — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:21:46 +0000

Here it is!

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:53:07 +0000

“Size 12 isn’t big. It’s still quite slim.” Well, duh. Especially considering most models are between 5’9″ and 6′ tall, a size 12 is quite slim at that height. Pardon my foul language, but welcome to the real world, dipshit.

Em – where did you find that article?

By: Em

Em — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:21:53 +0000

The spokesman was quoted in Daily Mail saying that her BMI is 19. I mean, HELLO, she’s one bout of diarrhea away from being “morbidly underweight” courtesy of the much-cited WHO! And they were “astonished”, no less, that she’s “quite slim”!
“The photographs show you can be size 12 and be healthy and beautiful.” Really? Healthy? That fat pig? Astonishing! And they had to fly her in all the way from South Africa because you couldn’t find a model so huge anwhere in the UK? Have you seen that girl? Would you even have noticed that she’s supposed to be bigger than other models? There’s an army of catalog and lingerie models all over Europe who are exactly her size, or bigger.

This makes me so mad, every time. Like all these suposedly body-positive articles you find in women’s magazines recently, about women who embrace their fat, imperfect selves at a voluptuous, overweight 130 pounds. I’d rather keep looking at starving size zero models forever than stand this hypocrisy.