Lots in the news about the health hazards of fashion – being unable to eat because of the tight jeans, the risks of throwing out your back from wearing high heels, but what else is new? Women were breaking ribs with tight corsets hundreds of years ago.
I was surprised to find nothing in the news regaling the health benefits of fashion. Hard to believe, since wearing those fabulous polarized sunglasses protect eye health, do they not? Don’t those big beautiful hats protect the health of your skin? And my friend S would be the first to point out that wearing eco-friendly fashions protect the health of the Earth.
The real issue isn’t fashion and health but rather beauty and health. Fashion is merely a by-product. Eating well and exercising to fit into those skinny jeans is a good thing, unless your idea of exercise is sticking your finger down your throat after each meal.
A recent story about women who are able to quit smoking only when their plastic surgeons refuse to perform the eye/face/neck lift unless they quit really brings this beauty and health issue to the forefront. I mean, if a woman can’t quit smoking because of the risks of cancer and emphysema but suddenly can quit because she wants liposuction, then that says something.
Something like beauty rules.
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