Thinness is back in fashion, but has it ever really disappeared? | Eva Wiseman

I respect the Halloween subculture of properly sluttifying what on another night would refuse to be sluttified. Scrolling through the photos last week, I noticed a few slutty ghosts, a few slutty characters from Toy Story. I noticed many, many cleavages, including one related to a Minion, and noticed Marge Simpson and Cinderella's buttocks. But while I always applaud the company, which never goes out of favor, this year I was struck by something else – the leanness.

Lean is back,” , reports the fashion press, suspiciously. When at the Met Gala, most of the news focused on the scandal of a disrespected museum piece. But for the girls, mostly young women, the real story unfolded in paragraphs four and five: she became the extreme weight loss plan that Kardashian pursued, simply eating the "cleanest vegetables and proteins." in order to make this sparkly costume dress. Similar diets have been set up in school kitchens across the UK and shared online in well-lit hashtags and films. It's no coincidence that this change in lifestyle, these Halloween costumes featuring large stretched belly plains, coincides with the return of Y2K fashion. With the return of baby t-shirts and coffee jeans to the top, we had the memory of how such clothes helped to encourage in us the idea that it was not that these clothes did not make us were wrong, it was our body that was. does not fit these clothes.

On TikTok, the popularity of searches consisting of "heroine sublime body" has further resulted in flimsy observations that "thin is in - the bottom- push-up jeans require a low BMI, the toddler tee requires, well, no tea in any respect. The sublime, staged heroine was the trendy frame shape of the 1990s, her lightly charcoal-drawn silhouette, the little cave curves, the sharp angles, the CK1 scent of liquid despair. Current beauty trends are going the same way: makeup tutorials show how to create fake under-eye circles or how to make it look like you're crying using light glitter and blush. Makeup speeds up the process, a form of diet pill for pores and skin. In September, Variety published an article about the surge in demand for , a diabetes drug that could lead to dramatic weight reduction. Today, in information that turns into dark, the rush of the drug method, there is a shortage of diabetics whose physical fitness depends on it.

And the social media give and take - . In the same minute of scrolling, you can see, for example, the two #WhatIEatInADay movies (the one I watched was more "a watermelon") and a clever statement from humans like (Crutches