It’ll make your clothes look better, after all.
I’ve called out celebrities like Michelle Williams and Mary-Kate Olsen for breeding the slouched shoulders look that advertises the grungy, almost sheepish I’m-so-skinny-aren’t-I-too-cute attitude that everyday women are starting to copy. It’s a habit that feigns fashion know-how and makes your back spitting mad.
Dr. Paul Drew, celebrity fitness trainer and physical therapist, has gotten so irritated with the bad posture epidemic that he’s releasing his own antidote: a posture-enhancing shapewear accessory and a book, Red Carpet Posture. The shapewear, RCP Wear™, won’t be available until the fall, but the book is already on sale at Amazon.com and redcarpetposture.com, and will be released in retail stores in June.
Dr. Drew points out that bad posture isn’t just unhealthy: it doesn’t even make you look skinny. “The most popular bad postural habit is standing or sitting with the shoulders rounded up and forward,” he says, “which in turn will make the stomach “pooch” out. A good example of some celebrities that do this, would be Miley Cyrus, Kirsten Dunst, Cameron Diaz, Nicole Richie, and Paris Hilton.”
He notes that celebrities with good posture, like Salma Hayek, Jessica Biel, Lucy Liu and Charlie Theron, “keep the shoulders down and back,” which ultimately keeps “the stomach up and into the spine to present one’s self with a very confident and glamourous look from an elongation of the spine.”
And while designers may believe that certain clothes look best on super skinny people, everyone should agree that an outfit will always look better on a girl who’s got good posture.
Because haven’t you ever noticed? The real models — with the exception of forced editorials — actually stand up straight.
