In Fashion, Fat Is Still a Taboo
Apparently,
Fashionistas despise women of size
for I've never heard one say:
"Fat is where it's at"
In fact, I'm afraid
most think it really sucks
and quite a few pay lots of bucks
to things like Jenny Craig
But those ladies who are somewhat plump
with even something of a rump
long ago found a champion
in the poet Thomas Campion
who, in his day
for a roll in the hay,
instead of some overly thin or bony Phyllis ,
much preferred a "comfortable" Amaryllis.
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I Care Not for These Ladies - Poetry Foundation
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Thomas Campion poem Amaryllis - Blue Ridge Journal
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Nature Art disdaineth; her beauty is her own. Her when we court and kiss, she cries: forsooth, let go! But when we come where comfort is, she never will say no.The anti-fat campaign is just fat-headed | Daily Mail Online
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Rosy-cheeked and curvy, Madame de St.-Maurice smiles complacently on visitors to the 80WSE Gallery at New York University. The subject of a late-18th-century portrait by Joseph Siffred Duplessis, she flaunts multiple chins, her fleshy arms and bosom becomingly veiled in a demi-sheer frock.
When the original canvas was exhibited, “it was praised for its truthfulness,” said Tracy Jenkins, the curatorial director of “Beyond Measure: Fashion and the Plus-Size Woman,” the new student exhibition showcasing the work. Sure the sitter was chubby. So what?
Flash-forward a couple of centuries, and Madame would as likely have been skewered, her frame regarded as an aesthetic, and perhaps even a moral, affront to polite society.
That assumption is at the heart of this small but affecting exhibition, one that encompasses photographs, mannequins, video and advertising imagery. Organized by graduate students in the costume studies program at N.Y.U.’s Steinhardt School, the show, which runs though Feb. 3, goes some way toward demonstrating that fat shaming, with roots burrowing deep into the 19th century, was, and remains, a freighted issue.
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Portrayed in the popular postcards and ads of the late 19th and early 20th century as grotesque, unseemly and out of control, women of size are represented in the gallery by Nettie the Fat Girl, a sideshow attraction shown in an early-20th-century photograph as a bulbous, childlike creature, her tutu and inflated thighs all but bearing her aloft.
Today that image wouldn’t fly, supplanted, in the popular media at least, by “full figured” role models, among them the defiantly outsize performers Beth Ditto and Melissa McCarthy, Adele and the aggressively curvyTess Holliday, touted on the cover of Peoplelast spring as the first size-22 supermodel.
A tentative acceptance of full-figured models that dates from the early 1990s is highlighted in the exhibition by the emergence of Stella Ellis, known as the first large-size model, a divalike figure who strode Jean Paul Gaultier’s runway in 1992 and was featured in his ad campaign, billowy bosom exposed, hair piled high like an opera star’s.
There is, as well, the flowery frock worn in the 1930s by the actress Marie Dressler, and a recent video clip of the lavender-coiffed, unabashedly round Ashley Nell Tipton, the first “Project Runway” designer to win with a plus-size collection.
Still, progress has been halting.
“Fat today is much less stigmatized, especially among younger people,” Ms. Jenkins allowed.
Outside, that is, the world of style.
“Fashion’s job is to exclude,” Ms. Jenkins said, adding pointedly, “Fashion is not accepting fat.”
The show’s omissions make the case: Apart from the dress form draped in Dressler’s effusively feminine garment, and a pair of others showcasing items made from children’s Chubbies Patterns in the 1950s, there are no mannequins of heft — and no fashion to clothe them.
Those are simply too hard to come by, as Ya’ara Keydar, a graduate student and an organizer of the show, explained. Ms. Keydar recalled that during a recent visit to an exhibition of historic evening dresses at the Sigal Museumin Easton, Pa., there was only one plus-size dress on display.
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