Comments on: Free for Chubbies

By: Poet With a Day Job

Poet With a Day Job — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:24:28 +0000

Free Chubb! For the same price as regular!

By: miep

miep — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:56:06 +0000

10 1/2 is not a “teen” size. 10 would be a child’s size here, as in 10 years old, and 10 1/2 is the fuller cut for a child at the same height.

I love the ad that Stella Mars put on a postcard of dresses for girls: “She can have a tummy and still look yummy!”

I have a tummy, and I look pretty yummy, thank you very much. ;)

By: Linz

Linz — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:06:23 +0000

Nomie, the more I look, the more I become convinced that the picture isn’t actually of a girl at all. It’s a bunch of body parts in different shapes and sizes, haphazardly stuck together. I’m pretty sure that the head is tiny, and that the legs–in addition to being kind of off to the side–are too big for the torso.

It might just be that I’m really tired, but now I can’t get the movie “May” out of my head.

By: trademark

trademark — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:17:27 +0000

It’s almost quaint…

By: Isabel

Isabel — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:59:36 +0000

(uh PS the thing about weight loss up there, maybe I should have been more clear, wasn’t about dieting or whatever, it was about, well, being really depressed and messed up and unhealthy. just wanted to make sure it didn’t come across wrong.)

By: Isabel

Isabel — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:57:29 +0000

Is the girl in the drawing supposed to be fat? I thought the depiction of normal looking girls as fat was a new phenomenon.

I always thought this too, until for a history project I had to leaf through issues of Seventeen from 1968. In addition to a shock (to my sheltered 16-year-old white girl brain) about how freaking blatant hateful racism used to be, I also learned that if anything, Seventeen has actually becoming more body-positive. Yes, more. One of the advice columns was something like “Dear Seventeen, my best friend is fat! What should I do?” which I don’t see them printing nowadays (not that I read it but from what I’ve seen). Another one had a feature about their cover models, one of whom was like “I was never FAT fat, but I was always a little heavy, but then I finally lost the weight and now everything is great!” (she went from like 5′7 and 135 to 5′7 and 120. Not that that’s an unreasonable weight for every single person ever, but when I at 5′7 went from 135 to 125, I lost bone density and TMI ALERT my Aunt Flo started dropping in unexpectedly if ya know what I mean).

So in conclusion… this insanity has been going on for a while.

By: Linz

Linz — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:14:32 +0000

Man, more things ought to say “Free for Chubbies” on them.

By: Nomie

Nomie — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:57:00 +0000

I’m more worried that the girl’s legs don’t appear to be attached to her torso. Do they look off-center to anybody else?

By: Jae

Jae — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:20:27 +0000

Tracey, I thought of that too!

By: Tracey

Tracey — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:06:26 +0000

I’m kind of surprised (and maybe a little impressed) that they put “regular” in quotes.