Eureka for A-cuppers! Small breasts are back in fashion... Well, if hairstyles and hemlines can trend, why not brassiere sizes, too. So says British fashion guru, Simon Doonan.
“Despite the worldwide embrace of enormous knockers, I remain convinced that the pendulous pendulum will, at some point, begin to swing the other direction,” Doonan wrote on the news site Slate, conceding that the trend comes thanks in part to the risks of leaking breast implants and the recent topless scene by modestly endowed actress Rooney Mara in the U.S. version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
According to Doonan, it's not the first time small breasts were stylish. In the late 1960s icons like Twiggy, Ali McGraw and Mia Farrow were regarded as "cool and highly attractive," even with little to fill their cups.
Call it a backlash against the enormous hooters that have long been en vogue. Case in point: the BBC documentary “My Big Breasts and Me” features big-boobed women griping over back pain, unwanted attention, and feelings of self-consciousness.
Remains to be seen if this trend will prompt a lot of women to go under the knife. Big or small or somewhere in between: be happy with what you've got, yummies, and concentrate instead on keeping them healthy.
Would you alter what God gave you to follow the whims of fashion?
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