Should minimum weight restrictions be placed on models?

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Fashion Week has started here in NY, and a certain someone is on the war path!!!
Councilwoman Gale Brewer (probably someones friend here), is demanding sponsors of Fashion Week to ban models under the 18.5 mass index that was previously introduced over seas.
From what was an apparent push by the councilwoman, The Council of Fashion Designers of America is now doing spot checks and is *recommending* that the models get fed backstage.
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Every year its something amusing at these shows  ;-)

Should minimum weight restrictions be placed on models?
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I like it this way. Why should we restrict the issue to the runway? God knows, the fashion industry doesn't...

i don't want to limit this to fashion shows.  i want it to cover covergirls and models in other ads as well.  what do you think of my latest revision?  are we any closer?  (your input here was very useful).

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being one that is surrounded by beautiful people every day, I must say that the controversy in Spain did cause a ripple in the business. According to the Fashion Designers of Spain, 30% of the women that were weighed/measured for their body mass index at that *specific* show in Madrid fell below their expectations. Their body mass was below the 18.5 to 24.9 indices that is considered to be *normal* (if there is such a thing in the fashion world).
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In response to Jacki's question:
The *average* weight (and i'll use that word loosely), is btwn 108 to about 130 pounds.
Average height being 5' 10" (someone here will remember the last one I was seen with  ;-)
So, 90lbs is definitely way below the standard that has now been proposed by the Spaniards.
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I believe it will be a bit difficult to pose the question, while attempting to avoid the usual recurring weight restriction ones that have been presented in the past.
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should be interesting once its figured out here

In Madrid this fall, models who had a body weight index of less than 18 were banned from the runway, but I don't think this has been adopted as any kind of international standard. 

Maybe the question could be, "Should there be rules banning underweight models?"

is there a specific guideline imposed - like if you weigh less than 90 lbs you're out?  if there is then we should use that specific guideline in this issue.  i'm not familiar enough with the subject matter. 

I think rewording it this way makes the issue perhaps too broad. There have always been (and will probably always be) weight restrictions in modeling, but the recent hoopla is over emaciated-looking models not being allowed in fashion shows, a first as far as I know. Maybe "Should fashion shows ban extremely underweight models?"

"extremely skinny models" is too funny.

how precisely do you define "extremely skinny models"? 

how about something like:

Should the fashion industry impose weight restrictions  on models?

They had a big brouhaha over this in Spain a few months back... those crazy, fat Spaniards...