Honesty in the City

Yesterday evening whilst doing some shopping in the city I passed a window of a boutique and did a double-take. Plus-size mannequins! I had to stop to snap a photo. I don’t know about the city where you live, but this is a first for one of Melbourne’s busiest shopping strips – although recently I also saw some other mannequins that were extremely well-endowed.

As the average size of the Australian woman is now 14–16, it certainly makes a refreshing change from the usual impossibly slender mannequins whose figures, were they live humans, would imply an enviably high metabolism (or miserably strict diet)!

Apparently this boutique used to be called Big City Chic, I’m told by a friend. Sensibly they dropped the prefix. However, I most assuredly did not see any of these mannequins in Myer yesterday.