Nearly every fashion magazine features a regular spread offering to help women “Dress for Your Body Type.” They’re about finding the right jeans, or the best pencil skirt, or the optimal top for various body types: apple, rectangle, curvy, wedge, triangle, full figured, boyish, curvy, hourglass, and athletic, to give a sampling. But aside from the obvious problem of reducing women’s bodies to geometrical shapes, fruit metaphors, and thinly veiled insults, there are some deeper issues sparked by this framework. More »Not A Pre-Existing Condition: Why Body Types Don’t Make You Athletic (Or Not Athletic) is a post from: Blisstree