https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:27:27 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today#post-1746400 Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:21:05 +0000 chadya 1746400@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@Alexandra<br />I am too<br />so many factors play into this subject and I'm not even going to talk about it. </p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today#post-1746174 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:01:31 +0000 Barbara Diane 1746174@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>And my mom had the same realization looking at old home movies of herself. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today#post-1746173 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:00:11 +0000 Barbara Diane 1746173@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think he either just reached a boiling point on this or something else prompted him to speak out. And <b>Clara T</b> is right, he has been angered for years at Project Runway designers who complain about the real women challenges. <b>Gradfashionista</b>, I wonder about how all this changing bodies affects self esteem.</p> <p>I see the average height increasing significantly in my and my DH's family. And ethnic makeup certainly affects the average size of a population in an area. So, there are the healthy gains in size, as on average, size tends to increase as height increases, and the unhealthy gains in weight due to other factors, which also lead to increased size.</p> <p>Personally, I wish someone had told me as a child and teen that part of the reason that I weighed more and wore a bigger size was because I was taller than average. At some point I just thought I'm large, I've always been large, and I'll always be large. I didn't realize I was just a little overweight. And the girls I was comparing myself to hadn't developed yet, and were on the slight end. And then I didn't notice when I really gained weight because, hey, I was large.<br />&nbsp;I took a look at some of my old size large clothes from when I was younger and I was shocked because they were not clothes someone "large" would wear. But I thought I was huge then.</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today#post-1746119 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 13:42:13 +0000 ClaraT 1746119@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I still love Tim. Better to speak out now than never (and for years he's been fussing at project runway designers who turn up their noses at real people). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today#post-1746067 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 04:40:53 +0000 Anonymous 1746067@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachylou may be on to something. Women's basketball is huge in Iowa </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today#post-1745688 Sat, 29 Oct 2016 17:47:50 +0000 rachylou 1745688@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>People have gotten a lot bigger. The last time I could wear vintage was middle school. It's not just fat. People were shorter, tinier. Better (early?) nutrition and medical care I suspect. </p> <p>Where you live also matters. My uncle the doctor says we don't see the big people where we live, that everyone talks about. I think that's true. I swear people get taller every 30 miles inland you go... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today#post-1745655 Sat, 29 Oct 2016 15:45:22 +0000 gradfashionista 1745655@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmm, I keep seeing this average size 16-18 floated around, but I'm beginning to suspect that the median (and standard deviations) are closer to what's offered in retail sizing. The skewed sizing and fetishization of thinness used to bother me a lot, but I'm more disturbed now by how prevalent facial and plastic surgery have become (e.g. Google before and after of Bella Hadid, Renne Zelleweger, etc.). Nose jobs, Botox and fillers seem to be quite common where I'm permanently based. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today#post-1745651 Sat, 29 Oct 2016 15:35:40 +0000 Anonymous 1745651@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes. At least he gets it now. I wonder if anything will change, though. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today#post-1745646 Sat, 29 Oct 2016 15:20:34 +0000 Anonymous 1745646@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>He's a convert, plain and simple. If we're always going to be chained to our past, what's the point of evolving? Better late than never. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today#post-1745635 Sat, 29 Oct 2016 14:46:04 +0000 kkards 1745635@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>like alexandra, i appreciate&nbsp;what he is saying, but as he spent years teaching many of today's leaders in fashion/retail wondering why now and what was he saying/doing in the past.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today#post-1745559 Sat, 29 Oct 2016 12:55:29 +0000 Alexandra 1745559@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmm, I'm getting tired of him. He's been quite loud about this recently but what about all those years before now? It's not as if women suddenly became overweight at the end of last year or something. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tim-gunn-on-the-pbs-news-hour-today#post-1745498 Sat, 29 Oct 2016 05:57:48 +0000 Barbara Diane 1745498@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tim Gunn on the essay on the PBS News Hour tonight.&nbsp;<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/tim-gunn-fashion-industry-needs-makeover/">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb.....-makeover/</a> </p>