cosmetic surgeries
So a new cosmetic surgery is trending. "Buccal fat removal".
It's at least not as incredibly dangerous as bbl, but it's still disturbing that there is a new "body trend" now.
A lot of people misunderstand clothing trends. And while there of course also are people that run after every new trend because they want to feel "fresh" or something, it mostly is a practical thing tbh. A clothing store only has so much space to sell things, so they cannot possibly sell every possible colour and shape you could possibly want. So of course there will be trending colours so that clothing stores will know what to prioritise. So if you're looking for a specific colour that is not a neutral one, you only need to check if it's currently trendy or not, instead of going through 10 different stores and being frustrated afterwards.
But all of this logic does not apply to body type trends.
There is no "supply issue" of different bodies, nope. It's literally only inventing a new insecurity for people to feel bad about.
It's disturbing that we apparently always swing back and forth between "heroin chic" (90's und 00's style anorexic supermodel bodies) and BBL style bodies. If a body type somehow needs to be "trendy", why can't it be a healthy one at least that isn't unhealthy to obtain? Though that wouldn't work either, since every body has a different "ideal" body of what is the most healthy state to be in for it, it's impossible to generalise about that.
So, what even is buccal fat removal? It's surgically removing "fat" from just underneath your cheek bones (so directly for this "ideal" heroine chic aesthetic). Girls, as if anyone ever looked into a mirror and thought "oh no, my cheeks are so squishy and cute, I need to completely remove them".
There is literally no sane explanation for that to be considered "undesirable" now. I bet there are young people now questioning their squishy faces now only because of this new cosmetic surgery trend.
Wake up, honey, a new insecurity just dropped
cosmetic surgeries
> A clothing store only has so much space to sell things, so they cannot possibly sell every possible colour and shape you could possibly want. So of course there will be trending colours so that clothing stores will know what to prioritise. So if you're looking for a specific colour that is not a neutral one, you only need to check if it's currently trendy or not, instead of going through 10 different stores and being frustrated afterwards.
Huh? The obvious alternative is for each store to pick non-standard colors they stock and announce them very visibly. If you cared about colors, you could then go to the appropriate store(s) and save on the frustration.
cosmetic surgeries
@robryk@qoto.org in my city for example there is basically only a c&a, a vero moda and a h&m and some second hand stores, I am not sure how it would be possible to coordinate all colours on those few stores (and second hand stores are wild anyways)
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@robryk@qoto.org you'd also have the issue that not all colours are equal in demand, so there would be a whole lot more waste than if we just cycle through colours like right now and everyone that wants to has a chance to pick it up then but there won't be billions of cerulean coloured clothes nobody wants ever
@sugarbell
I don't get why you expect any difference there. If a color is less in demand, it's less likely to be trendy now, and there would be fewer shops stocking it in that alternative reality.
@robryk@qoto.org I think you really don't understand trends at all.
I have no spoons to explain the details of the trend cycle and fashion psychology, the classism in having "new" things being trendy and old things not, etc. to an ignorant person.