Fed Up With Underfed Models

Re “Top Designers Reveal Some Ideas to See Us Through Spring” (Oct. 11). Sex appeal? Try sick appeal! The pathetic, skeletal bodies, sunken eyes and haunted facial expressions of the models accompanying the article are far more riveting than the outfits they are wearing.

Does the fashion industry still get a pass on idealized anorexia and bulimia? The article reports that the clothing was so transparent, the fashion press worried about their photos making it into family newspapers. What about the impressionable children and teenagers who read those newspapers and believe they ought to look like the transparent models?

We have legislation banning advertising of smoking. Do we need laws banning the glorification of starvation as well?

--ALITTA KULLMAN

Laguna Hills