Improvability Blog

Before anorexia and implants,
there was something called SEXY

Here are some of the comments posted about this photo of the late Marilyn Monroe:

• Griselda says, “She was a size 12 (UK equivalent = 14) at the height of her career! If she were alive at this time in history everyone would have said she was fat.”
• Clementburga said, “Not everyone is naturally blessed with a figure like Marilyn’s, which is where people’s securities and hence eating disorders and plastc surgery obsessions come from. If every woman naturally had a figure as well proportioned as Marilyn’s, I highly doubt they’d be insecure.”
• Ermentrude wrote, “I wish guys still thought this was sexy because I have almost exactly that figure only a bit larger boobs and I’m what guys today consider chunky?”
• Morticia replied, “Ermentrude, you need to hang out with different guys then!”

Marilyn’s dress size

Some say that she was a size 12, some say 14, some say 16.

First of all, let’s establish that it depends what part of the world you’re in when talking about women’s dress sizes.

For the full Monty on this, take a look at this article about size differences around the world.

Marilyn was 5 ft 5 in tall. Her measurements were recorded by her dressmaker as 36-23-37 and sometimes fluctuated between that and 36-24-37.

Which means she had a tiny waist in proportion to the rest of her and had the archetypal hour-glass figure.

Compare that with a fashion industry description of the ideal size for a current fashion catwalk model:

The British Association of Model Agents (AMA) says that female models should be around 34-24-34 and at least 5 ft 8 in tall.

Vent your spleen

Now it’s your turn. Go on, get it out of your system and let me know what you think!

It’s called venting your spleen!

I highly recommend it at least once a week.

And I will be inordinately happy to read the contents of your spleen – just don’t send me any pictures, thank you very much!

Ladies’ Style in a Box Option 1

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Or save 10% and pay full price!

Offer ends Monday 23rd January.

The prices will rise again on Tuesday, and steadily again after that back up to full price.

Full details and terms, content, video taken from the course itself, and descriptions of all 4 options for the Ladies’ Style Training Kit

Neil has just added a great video to the Ladies’ Style in a Box website. This is taken from the actual training course.

Listen to real consultants describing their own negative experiences of when they had their own style analysed – the old-fashioned way.

You know what I mean, don’t you? Some consultant totally focussed on following a checklist and regurgitating the exact same old guff for every single client.

People are not checklists!

Every one of us, and that includes you, deserves to be treated like an unique human being.

What about the two ladies, for instance, both of whom had been diagnosed with a short waist? Listen to why there’s no way on God’s earth that any consultant should be giving them both the exact same advice…

And yet, they’re out there, aren’t they? Image consultants, stylists, whatever the call themselves, churning out the same generalised rubbish to the world and his mother. 

And all the image books…! 
Just don’t get me started on that one!

I don’t know about you but I’ve had enough of all this generalised clap-trap so I’m on a mission to help ladies everywhere to discover what they (and nobody else on the planet) look and feel fabulous in.

If you feel the same, then watch this short video, and let me know how you feel!

And if this inspires you to want to add Ladies’ Style to your list of services, then read my blog from yesterday because I’ve got some fantastic offers for you – but only for the next 3 days!  These mad offers will end on Sunday 15th January.