By the way – it’s not a given that skinny people have jutting collarbones any more than it is a given that fat people’s clavicles are subsumed by fat. Depends an awful lot on the bones themselves, not just on your padding. This stuff is just a new way of forcing yet another worry on us. Let’s throw this one onto the pile along with labioplasty and feminine deodorant spray.

Most straight guys aren’t into the whole fat thing, but nor are they particularly attracted by concentration camp chic. And they’re not looking at your clavicles, ladies.

I was wearing this strapless dress from Torrid to work the other day (with a cardigan so I wasn’t totally bare and inappropriate for work). My naturally thin co-worker told me that she really liked my dress but she’d never even consider wearing a strapless because her upper chest and collarbone area were too thin and bony. I was like, but that’s all the rage these days. She said that she knew it was but that she still didn’t like that part of herself. It just struck me as weird that I, a woman who easily weighs 120 pounds more than my coworker, likes my body more than the woman who was so close to society’s ideal.

I felt kind of sad for her a little and wished there was something I could have told her that would make her feel that she could wear a cute strapless dress if that’s what she wanted.

The collarbone thing…. Yeah. It’s very much a response to fashion. Current fashions make people look bigger and, you know, heaven forbid we not look as small as possible!