XXXXXL | Sunday, May 06, 2007 |
I have just been reading a story in the Sydney Morning Herald about the increasing size of school uniforms. It would seem that they are now making primary school uniforms with a waist measurement of 110cm. The average height of an 8 – 11 year old girl or boy in Australia is 140 cm so they are not quite as round as they are tall but it is becoming a close thing.
I wasn’t sure how big that was so raced off to measure myself. My waist it seems is 67 cm, so this article is saying that there are children under 11 who have waists more than 40cm greater than mine! The company’s spokeswoman Jenni Mackillop was quoted as saying "We do see our fair share of little chubbies."
The news seems to be all about size at the moment, I have been reading about the current debate about models being too thin, and a recent quote from Joseph Tenni of Chadwicks Models which sent me scurrying to the tape measure was ‘knowing that the maximum measurement that they [in New York] would really accept is a 90cm hip, I let girls be aware of that and then it's up to them to make the decision whether they're prepared to do that.’ That is exactly my hip measurement so maybe if I could turn the clock back 20 years and grow another ten or fifteen centimetres I could move to New York and seek my fortune as a model. Or maybe I could eat a few more pies, stay in Australia and model school uniforms.
I wasn’t sure how big that was so raced off to measure myself. My waist it seems is 67 cm, so this article is saying that there are children under 11 who have waists more than 40cm greater than mine! The company’s spokeswoman Jenni Mackillop was quoted as saying "We do see our fair share of little chubbies."
The news seems to be all about size at the moment, I have been reading about the current debate about models being too thin, and a recent quote from Joseph Tenni of Chadwicks Models which sent me scurrying to the tape measure was ‘knowing that the maximum measurement that they [in New York] would really accept is a 90cm hip, I let girls be aware of that and then it's up to them to make the decision whether they're prepared to do that.’ That is exactly my hip measurement so maybe if I could turn the clock back 20 years and grow another ten or fifteen centimetres I could move to New York and seek my fortune as a model. Or maybe I could eat a few more pies, stay in Australia and model school uniforms.
