{"id":14478,"date":"2025-11-25T22:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14478"},"modified":"2025-11-25T22:28:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:28:40","slug":"womens-fashion-has-a-sizing-problem-says-designer-edeline-lee-shes-out-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14478","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s fashion has a sizing problem, says designer Edeline Lee. She\u2019s out to fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/25\/506fee65-bc35-4d2d-9633-8c0194c8cbd4_8e747ad4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">We tend to assume that it is fashion designers who perpetuate the tyranny of the size-six silhouette: the rail-thin runway model, small sample sizes and the implied suggestion that women must shrink themselves to fit the clothes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWomen don\u2019t fit into five sizes \u2013 it\u2019s complete b******t,\u201d she says, with the matter-of-factness of someone who has seen, up close, just how untrue the fantasy really is.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Speaking from her East London studio, where clients regularly strip down to their underwear during fittings, Lee says she hears the private fears and body anxieties that women carry every single day.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIf you get naked with someone, basically it\u2019s a very intimate experience \u2026 you end up having these conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">And those conversations make clear that the idea of a single \u201cideal\u201d body remains deeply embedded in luxury fashion, even if the public conversation suggests otherwise.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s not [like] the industry [is] saying as a whole, we only believe in skinny teenagers,\u201d Lee stresses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/fashion-beauty\/article\/3334017\/womens-fashion-has-sizing-problem-says-designer-edeline-lee-shes-out-fix-it?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tend to assume that it is fashion designers who perpetuate the tyranny of the size-six silhouette: the rail-thin runway model, small sample sizes and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3928,10781,354,336,1063,3914,4182,10780,3805],"class_list":["post-14478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-designer","tag-edeline","tag-fashion","tag-fix","tag-lee","tag-problem","tag-shes","tag-sizing","tag-womens","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}