31 October 2006

Designers market subzero clothes size

Source: UPI

LONDON (UPI) -- As if weight-conscious women didn't have enough to worry about, U.S. fashion designers have come up with a less-than-zero size.

This fall, Gap-owned Banana Republic began advertising clothing in a size smaller than zero on its Web site, Britain's Independent newspaper reported.

The duds in size zero-zero are designed for waists the circumference of a child's football.

Following suit designer Nicole Miller is planning to introduce her own version of mini-clothing tagged "sub-zero."

"We've introduced this size for naturally petite women, not for models who have dieted themselves down to a dangerously low height to weight ratio," a spokesman for Miller told The Independent.

Medical professionals who treat women suffering from eating disorders said they are horrified at the development.

"It's absolutely ridiculous. No woman can possibly wear those kind of clothes and be healthy. You have to be in a state of starvation," Dr. Dee Dawson, director of a North London clinic that treats adolescents with anorexia nervosa, told The Independent.

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