With designs from big fashion houses normally floating in the 0 to 2 range, being anything but somewhere between one of those sizes means getting to wear the latest and hottest styles is pretty much impossible, unless of course you're an A-list celebrity who a top designer will custom make a dress for you.

A lot of people in the fashion industry, models and non, have weighed in on the sample size debate recently–the consensus generally being that sample sizes are unrealistically small (much smaller than the size of the average adult human), and that if we want to stop encouraging unhealthy body images, designers need to make their sample sizes larger. In fact, Vogue encouraged them to do this in its recent Health Initiative.

Rising star Kate Upton, who likely has first-hand experience being put into samples at photo shoots that don’t fit her killer curves, gave her two cents in the latest issue of Vogue UK and we really like what she said: Read More