Hugh Gaugler
September 10, 2006, 12:06 PM
Here are some quote from a Yahoo News article at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060908/lf_afp/afplifestylefashion;_ylt=Al..6iK4PHwS5IF9IH9cJsas0 NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
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"MADRID (AFP) - Excessively skinny fashion models will be barred from a major Madrid fashion show later this month for fear they could send the wrong message to young Spanish girls, local media reported."
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"The authorities collaborated with a Spanish health organisation to come up with a minumum body mass -- a height-weight ratio -- of 18 for the models."
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"Organisers said they wanted to 'help ensure public opinion does not associate fashion, and fashion shows in particular, with an increase in anorexia, a disease which, along with bulimia, is considered ... as a mental and behavioural problem'."
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What's next????
What else do you think should be banned "for fear of . . ."?
Methinks US President FDR had it right: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself".
---- Hugh
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060908/lf_afp/afplifestylefashion;_ylt=Al..6iK4PHwS5IF9IH9cJsas0 NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
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"MADRID (AFP) - Excessively skinny fashion models will be barred from a major Madrid fashion show later this month for fear they could send the wrong message to young Spanish girls, local media reported."
. . .
"The authorities collaborated with a Spanish health organisation to come up with a minumum body mass -- a height-weight ratio -- of 18 for the models."
. . .
"Organisers said they wanted to 'help ensure public opinion does not associate fashion, and fashion shows in particular, with an increase in anorexia, a disease which, along with bulimia, is considered ... as a mental and behavioural problem'."
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What's next????
What else do you think should be banned "for fear of . . ."?
Methinks US President FDR had it right: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself".
---- Hugh
