WELLNESS
This Blogger's Viral Instagram About Why Clothing Sizes Don't Matter Is Spot-on
BY
ERIN REIMEL
JUNE 3, 2017 2:08 PM
body positive blogger
PHOTO: INSTAGRAM/@SCARREDNOTSCARED
Clothing sizes—that random little number on the tag—can be a thorn in the side for some women. After all, numbers tend to change with each store and sometimes with each season. Being one size in the spring at one store only to come back a season later to find you suddenly need a size or three larger is a fairly common (and for some, disheartening) thing—just as Lowri Bryne posted about when she tried on a dress in her usual size at H&M and wound up needing three sizes bigger, only because of the way the dress was made. And joining the conversation is body-positive blogger Michelle Elman, who, in a post that's now going viral, decided to show just how insignificant those labels really are when it comes to clothing.
Elman posted two side-by-side photos of herself on Instagram this week. One was from 2012, when she was a size 12, and the other is from this year. She's currently a size 20. In both photos she's wearing the same exact dress—a size 14. And yep, it fits great in both pictures. "NUMBERS DON'T MEAN ANYTHING," she begins the caption.
She continues: "So are you really going to let a change a dress size dictate your day? Are you really going to let an increase in a number affect your mood? Same dress. Still comfortable. Still beautiful. (In fact, I think I look better and happier now!)
"A higher dress size doesn't mean:
you are less beautiful
you are less worthy
you are less lovable
you are a worse human
you are a bad person
you are a different person
"AND it doesn't even mean you have a bigger body. You could go up a dress size by simply changing stores...(or countries). You can change dress sizes because of the time of the day or simply due to whether you are on your period or not." Hear, hear.
Elman wants her followers to forget about the numbers and focus on how they feel, precisely because numbers are so random: You can be a 16 in one store and a 12 in another.
"You are not a number," she ends her post. If you feel good in your skin, that's what matters. And that's exactly what Elman is getting at.
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WELLNESS
This Blogger's Viral Instagram About Why Clothing Sizes Don't Matter Is Spot-on
BY
ERIN REIMEL
JUNE 3, 2017 2:08 PM
body positive blogger
PHOTO: INSTAGRAM/@SCARREDNOTSCARED
Clothing sizes—that random little number on the tag—can be a thorn in the side for some women. After all, numbers tend to change with each store and sometimes with each season. Being one size in the spring at one store only to come back a season later to find you suddenly need a size or three larger is a fairly common (and for some, disheartening) thing—just as Lowri Bryne posted about when she tried on a dress in her usual size at H&M and wound up needing three sizes bigger, only because of the way the dress was made. And joining the conversation is body-positive blogger Michelle Elman, who, in a post that's now going viral, decided to show just how insignificant those labels really are when it comes to clothing.
Elman posted two side-by-side photos of herself on Instagram this week. One was from 2012, when she was a size 12, and the other is from this year. She's currently a size 20. In both photos she's wearing the same exact dress—a size 14. And yep, it fits great in both pictures. "NUMBERS DON'T MEAN ANYTHING," she begins the caption.
She continues: "So are you really going to let a change a dress size dictate your day? Are you really going to let an increase in a number affect your mood? Same dress. Still comfortable. Still beautiful. (In fact, I think I look better and happier now!)
"A higher dress size doesn't mean:
you are less beautiful
you are less worthy
you are less lovable
you are a worse human
you are a bad person
you are a different person
"AND it doesn't even mean you have a bigger body. You could go up a dress size by simply changing stores...(or countries). You can change dress sizes because of the time of the day or simply due to whether you are on your period or not." Hear, hear.
Elman wants her followers to forget about the numbers and focus on how they feel, precisely because numbers are so random: You can be a 16 in one store and a 12 in another.
"You are not a number," she ends her post. If you feel good in your skin, that's what matters. And that's exactly what Elman is getting at.
Related Stories:
H&M's 'Ridiculous' Sizing Gets Slammed in Viral Facebook Post
This Woman Put on Differently Sized Pants to Make a Statement About Body Image
Ashley Graham on Authenticity and Being a Body-Image Activist
Keywords:
instagramclothing sizessizebody confidence
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