The children's clothing section at Uniqlo(优衣库) in China has gained 1_____ unexpected new client

3 漫画腰、天鹅颈、马甲线:是谁定义了我们的身材?

 

Women posing in children's clothing? Fad sparks body-shaming concerns.
女性身着童装拍照?这股风气激起了人们对身材羞辱的担忧 
The children's clothing section at Uniqlo(优衣库) in China has gained 1_____ unexpected new clientele: adult women.
In the latest viral challenge to sweep Chinese social media, women pose for dressing-room selfies in children's T-shirts from the Japanese fashion giant. The trend has ignited a 2_____(heat) debate about whether it promotes body shaming.
On Weibo 3_____ the hashtag(推文话题) "Adult tries on Uniqlo children's clothing" has been viewed 680 million times, criticism is split between those who object 4_____ the unrealistic beauty standards the challenge promotes and those who express the more practical concern that women are stretching out the clothes and rendering(提供) them unsaleable(卖不出去的).
The challenge has been labeled the 5_____(late) iteration of "BM style, " a type of fashion 6_____(recent) popularized by the cult Italian brand Brandy Melville, which is youthful, casual and, above all, thin (its stores carry only one size: extra small).
Similar online challenges have gone viral on Chinese social media before. In 2016, women — and some men — posed with 7_____(they) waists behind a vertical sheet of A4 paper to show they were "paper thin."
Jia Tan, an assistant professor in cultural studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that the apparel industry is a prominent driver of what 8_____(consider) "standard" sizing.
"I think we need 9_____(question) the tremendous social pressure on women, and why the apparel industries can have so much power in 10_____(standardize) how we look, before we point our fingers on those adult women who show off in children's sizes, "Tan said.
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