Why are people so stupid to think that size 8 's (uk) dont have curves??

Question

Im size 8 (uk) and have curves!

frankiebaby I do go in at my waist and out at my hips! who mentioned boobs???

Answer 1

I am a real fatty - a UK size 10 with curves and rolls of fat too

Answer 2

I'd have to say it's because people don't really use their brains and think about it properly. Curves aren't a matter of being big, they're a matter of waist-hip ratio (waist circumference/hip circumference), butt and breasts. A woman with a waist-hip ratio of 0.7 (the ideal value) will be a curvy woman whether she's a size 6uk or a size 10uk. A round, perky and full butt also helps and one doesn't have to be big sized to have a butt like that (it's a matter of muscle, not fat). And then there are the breasts. Even though breasts are mainly made up of fat it is possible for a thin woman to have (natural) big breasts. I'd have to say I'm the perfect example of that, I'm a size 6uk with 34D natural breasts.
Another thing those people should do is educate themselves because the body of the average British woman (and man) has changed a lot in the last decades. People didn't only grow fatter, they also became less curvy as they grew in size.

"The hourglass figure typified by curvaceous Fifties stars such as Ms.Elizabeth Taylor and Ms.Sophia Loren is, officially, a thing of the past.

A major study of body sizes shows that the average British female waist now measures almost 865mm — a shocking 165mm less waspish and more sluggish than their Fifties counterparts, whose nipped-in little skelf-like middles were an average 700mm in 1951.

There is a very definite change in women’s shapes, from an hourglass figure to a much more tubular or apple shape’, said Professor Mr.Philip Treleaven, from University College, London, who led the research.

‘We found that hips were 40mm bigger, as were busts, but, when we got to the waists and found 165mm difference, it was, “Wow”; everyone, men and women, has a belly now’.

Back in 1951, during the era of post-war food rationing, a typical woman measured 1 600mm tall, had a 940mm bust, a 700mm waist, 990mm hips and weighed 61.5kg.

Today, a typical British woman would weigh in at 65kg, be 1 640mm tall, and carry an extra 40mm around the bust and hips and 165mm around the middle.

But it isn’t only women who have bulked up in the past 50 years… "

You can read the rest here: http://clippednews.wordpress.com/2004/09/02/people-are-bigger-now/

Basicaly what this means is that British women are less curvy nowadays than they were 50 years ago and that the fatter they get the less curvy they become. Women nowadays can no longer compare themselves to the likes of Marilyn Monroe even if that's what big sized women love to do.
So don't worry about being a size 8, it's a healthy size and being a size 8 doesn't mean, in any way, you can't be curvy. You just have to realize that in a society where a vast number of the population is overweight or nearly-overweight people start thinking of that as the norm and look at people who are truly "normal" as too thin. Be happy the way you are!

Answer 3

its the size that makes people think you are straight up and down as its a small size! im an 8 in clothes and have curves that look more like a ten! but a ten is too big for me!

Answer 4

I'm a UK size 8 and my feet curve all over the place!!!

Answer 5

yeah but the same could be said for us size 16 girlies! they dont have curves they are just fat!

im a size 16 and i still have my curves - used to be a lovely curvy size 10 until i had my son and im working on getting it back!

people just expect either size 8's to be straight down, or 16's to be fat, but thats just how narrow minded people are!!

size 8 girls can have curves! :)

Answer 6

It is annoying, i'm a size 8 with curves too. Even worse if you're on the short side! Maybe we should set up a petition to the fashion houses!!!

Answer 7

im a size 8 and still waiting on some curves to arrive i had them when i was a 12 but lost them when i lost the weight

Answer 8

I'm also a size 8 and have curves!!!!

Answer 9

cos size 8 usually dont have curves

Answer 10

having curves doesnt mean u have boobs, its hips and a bum as well, just coz u are thin and have boobs doesnt class u as being curvy. curvy is based on the hips,waist and boobs ratio, like an hourglass shape. thats what curvy means. for example, martine mccutcheon is curvy, jennifer ellison is not, get it? all she has is boobs, the rest oof her is straight up n down, hardly goes in at her waist and out at her hips.