The fashion industry is often cruel to women. Seasonal trends can end up completely divorced from the female form, unrelated to the bodies of average women. (I love the tulip and bubble shapes because I have no hips - can every woman say the same?) Models take it even further. Once called "mannequins" and prized for being only slightly more trim than the rest of the population, they now tend to be childlike figures posed submissively, sexually, or blankly. Look at any fashion spread or advertisement from the 40s or 50s and then at what's around today: women in fashion were once aloof figures that commanded admiration; today they invite the reader to take advantage of them.
