Size-eight women make freak appearance on runway

Designer Leesa Fogarty, of MaraJoara swimwear, was responsible for such a repulsive runway faux pas that Vogue Australia swiftly deleted all photographic evidence from their Web site. Fogarty’s dreadful offense? She scrapped typical skeletal fashion models for fleshier everyday Aussies in her runway show during Australian Fashion Week and, to hear the Herald Sun tell it, the fashion world is reeling.

So it’s cool to have rats on the runway (a la Tsubi’s debut) but not normal women. The Herald Sun link has some pics of the girls involved and they are all pretty attractive and what most people consider slim. Some where a little on the curvy side, but no one was what most would consider “fat”, though this comment is misleading:

Lo and behold, the average Australian isn’t a size zero, but a size 14.

There’s no such thing as a size zero in Australia, not because we’re all heifers, just America has a different system. Apparently according this online clothes conversion: 0=4, 2=6, 4=8, 6=10, 8=12 and 10=14. So really, the average Australian woman, if size 14, is an American size 10. Not too bad really. Very strange how warped the fashion world is.