To the anonymous stylist who said this about Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) and her dress:
“You don’t put a big girl in a big dress. That’s rule number one.”
FUCK YOU!
This woman is perfectly shaped! There is nothing big about her!
I hate you and I don’t even know who you are.
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Well she’s not a size 0 which I happen to adore.She’s a beautiful, shapely women. I wish more in Hollywood were like her and not stick figures. It’s what I have always admired about Streep.
What a ridiculous, a-hole thing to say. She looks great!
She is so beautiful and you know what? even if she’s a “BIG GIRL,” she can wear WHATEVER SHE DAMN WANTS TO!!!
Fashion critics need to eat $HIT and shut the f–k up and stop telling people what they can wear.
WTF???? On what planet is Christina Hendricks big????????
“You don’t put a big girl in a big dress”… If you’re afraid of “big.”
Christina Hendricks is beautiful, and seems wonderfully unafraid of “big.” She walks that carpet and into that room and takes up as much space as she damn well pleases. Huzzah!
In the world of Hollywood she’s big. Size 0 rules, Size 8,10, 12 obese. Honestly their ideal of beauty and what you see in many European films are like night and day.
I wonder if some of these idiotic stylists ever even consider the toxic ideas they’re perpetuating. So many of them seem completely mired in groupthink. Unplug them from the hive and they would probably not be able to figure out how to fill their lungs with oxygen.
Bless you, Melissa Silverstein
“Big girl”– she is neither. She’s a slender, but buxom woman, and most of the people who watch “Mad Men” become obsessed with her. Because she is AWESOME, and her beauty is only one of the many things that makes her so.
She’s what so many, men and women, are afraid of – a woman. With real attributes a “girl” doesn’t have.
Funny how the term “big boy” is used to refer to a pre-adolescent boy that is growing up. Pretty rarely used for a man, except to say – “he’s playing with the big boys now.” Meaning powerful.
“Big girl” is often a smear for large and can be used throughout a woman’s life. Really because we’re ambivalent about “woman.” And their power and their taking up space. And being natural and enjoying it.
WHAT THE FUCK!!!! What is wrong with these people?! So horrifying to know that generations of girls are growing up with these “standards” shoved in their faces from all corners.
Melissa,
You are awesome! Thank you for showing the beautiful photo of Christina H. and telling that stylists (all?) to fuck off.
Margot