Modell or muddle?

Abby, who is modelling pinafore dresses in today's Herald magazine is a pretty and pretty young woman. Since pinafore dresses were traditionally worn by wee lassies at primary school back in the 60s and 70s, I'm guessing somebody hired Abby first because she looks like a 10 year old and secondly because she looks faintly like one of the icons of that time, Audrey Hepburn.

I say 'faintly' because, whereas Abby in her photo is straight-faced, flat-chested and utterly devoid of any kind of sparkle, Audrey was the one many of us wee girls admired because she was a woman, with a woman's shape, a ravishing smile and a personality that just leapt out of her photos.

See? Sad, isn't it? Of course, the saddest thing is not that models have been reduced to sad-faced wee stick figures but that you couldn't put Audrey into Abby's clothes. Her shape would ruin the line of the clothes, which were I suspect designed by guys who wouldn't know a real woman if she leapt up and slapped them.....I'd really like to see that acturally - fashion might get a change of aesthetic then. I haven't forgotten the Italian designer who said he didn't design clothes for fat women and by fat he meant any woman over size 10 - with breasts.