Normal Sized Models Boost Sales


	Normal Sized Models Boost Sales

CrazyRedHead

4-23-2007 11:46 AM

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4-23-2007 1:37 PM

xbeckyax

It's about time this happened too, nice one

4-23-2007 1:48 PM

Picholine

Like the article. The photo not so much. She doesn't look very normally proportioned to me.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cebd3d64-bae6-422c-98c7-50c04ac90f2a/36FA9A34-357F-4A7A-B068-CB070C00D0BC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=450035&in_page_id=1879" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=450035&in_page_id=1879" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=450035&in_page_id=1879"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/8A672B27-7730-46A5-B57F-9394A1D1C261" alt="john lewis " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=450035&in_page_id=1879">'size normal' model girls</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=450035&in_page_id=1879">
John Lewis plans to capitalise on the backlash against size-zero models by using "normal-sized" 
women to advertise its clothes. 
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In a bold stance, the department store will employ a variety of women of different shapes and weights and will even use larger mannequins in its shop windows.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=450035&in_page_id=1879">
John Lewis believes that it has laid down the gauntlet for other High Street retailers to convey a "realistic" image of what women look like.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=450035&in_page_id=1879">
It hopes the move will help to combat anorexia, the potentially fatal eating disorder that affects thousands of girls and young women, which critics say is fuelled by images of routinely ultra-slim models.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=450035&in_page_id=1879">
Sales rocketed thanks to its advertisements 
showing women with fuller figures.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=450035&in_page_id=1879"><P>
While the average British woman is a size 16, most models are a size eight, ten or even six. 
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