Photo Rambles
By P.G. Ramblings
Fashion Industry Recreates The Belsen Look!

How easy it is for the media and other assorted rabble to take cheap shots at those young models of the fashion industry that resemble at best, stylishly dressed stick insects and at worst, stylishly dressed skeletons. For an example of the latter, take a long hard look at the wife of a rather well known footballer who dabbles in fashion modelling. Those legs surely belong to a bird of the feathered variety.

That's not the point though, the point is that it's the media that put those girls on pedestals and declared them gorgeous in the first place. A different take on the 'Kings new clothes syndrome'. Stick insect girls are gorgeous and sexy because the media said so, therefore any girl who didn't resemble an escapee from Belsen - wasn't only overweight but unhealthy and unemployable in the model industry. Like mindless sheep, the public at large readily agreed en masse.

Now these poor under nourished girls are not only being castigated by society, they're being told they'll require a health certificate to work and where exactly is that going to end? Discrimination is the name of the game. Does a window cleaner require a health certificate to prove he/she is suffering from malnutrition or even obesity? No! Why not? What about a shop assistant, call centre operator, solicitor, electrician, plumber, Prime Minister, photographer, fashion designer, President? No!

Some people question the sanity of our politicians but has anyone suggested they all have to be certified in order to stay in employment? No! Then why are the young ladies of the modelling industry being persecuted? If young women want to starve themselves to death in order to gain employment, either let them get on with it or send them to see a doctor. In fact, any female who is under the illusion that they will look gorgeous as a skeleton, urgently needs to consult a shrink. Do these girls not have responsible parents? Obviously not.

If the same media is at all serious about saving these young wannabe models from pain, hardship, financial grief, possible death or the legendary 'fate worse than death', they should start by first pressurising the government into clamping down on the plethora of unscrupulous model agencies et al that are swindling naive desperate girls and their families out of copious amounts of money and giving nothing in return but empty promises of fame and fortune. Follow this up with a call for new employment legislation that specifically targets the fashion industry that is surely guilty of discrimination against 'normal and healthy' young women and of endangering lives.

The same hypocritical media should also immediately cease doing business with these agency gangsters, i.e. refuse to accept the fraudulent advertising and of course the easy money that accompanies it.

Until they do take action, the media and government are just as responsible for the well being (physically, mentally and financially) of models as the shysters masquerading as 'model agents' and the fashion industry that employ the girls.

And last but not least we have the fashion designers themselves. Why the hell don't they demonstrate their expertise and ingenuity by designing clothes for real women or would that merely show up their obvious inadequacies

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