Inbetweeners: Why We Need To Talk About Models In The Middle Of Sizes

Would you consider Amy Schumer plus-size?

Picture this. You’re a size 12, and you want to be a model. You head to a ‘straight size’ agency, and they tell you to lose weight. You go and see a ‘plus size’ agency, and they tell you to gain weight. There’s no-one willing to represent you unless you change your body type, and now you’re annoyed.

There’s a growing problem in the fashion industry right now, and it has to do with ‘inbetweeners’ – models who are stuck in the middle of plus and straight size, with nowhere to work. With sample sizes too small for their sizes, but plus size brands looking for bigger proportions, these perfectly healthy girls are kind of being forgotten about.

A plus size sensation Tess Holliday told us, ‘there needs to be a bigger voice for the inbetweeners. They're the ones that get the brunt of a lot of people's frustration because they get stuck on to the tail end of plus size but then straight size doesn't want to use them because they're “too big”, which I think is stupid’

And it’s not just models who are having trouble categorising their body types. Look at Amy Schumer; the actress was recently featured in a magazine’s plus-size section, even though plus-size is generally considered to be above a size 16, and Amy wears a size 8-10. ‘I think there's nothing wrong with being plus size. Beautiful healthy women’, Amy wrote on her Instagram, ‘[This] doesn't feel right to me. Young girls seeing my body type thinking that is plus size? What are your thoughts? Mine are ‘not cool’’.

Lena Dunham also spoke out for her friend, telling People ‘I think fashion should be for women and it should be for all women. I think Amy's entire thing is trying to sort of like break down barriers and be bold about her own opinions. She was trying to do was stand up for women and say we're not supposed be categorised in this role, we're supposed to just be allowed to exist’.

We have to say, we agree with Lena. As curve model Sabina Karlsson told us, ‘an actress doesn’t define herself as a plus size actress!’, so why should models, and why should women? Isn’t it about time we just let ourselves and our sizes be what they are, without having to label it? Let us know what you think below.

While we're at it, should fashion go gender-neutral?

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Inbetweeners: Why We Need To Talk About Models In The Middle Of Sizes