Kaj Halberg - writer & photographer
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Rattling skeletons
The other day there was a fashion show on TV. In a most affected walking style, a line of alarmingly skinny women marched down a platform, along which a number of women and effeminate men were clapping their hands enthusiastically, watching these fantastic robes, which no reasonably normal woman would dream of wearing.
One thing is that the clothes are peculiar. If you dare to comment on them, you are told that this is fashion, and you don’t know anything about that. All right, that may be so, but why do the women, who are displaying these rags, have to be so thin? They are often role models for young and insecure girls, for whom the worst nightmare is to be different from their friends. To become like their role models, many of them starve themselves, and a small percentage end up suffering from anorexia – a life-threatening ailment.
Please, in the name of salubrity, could we have some fashion models that look like ordinary, healthy women instead of rattling skeletons?
In the name of salubrity, could we have some fashion models that look like ordinary, healthy women, like these Bena Kabende women in Zambia, or these bar maids in a hotel in Austria? (Photos copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
(Uploaded March 2017)