This site explains how hashtags like #thighgap, #thighbrow, and #CollarboneChallenge encourage women to aspire to unattainable beauty standards. It explains that whether or not a woman has a thigh gap—so that when she stands with her feet together, her tights do not touch—depends on her bone structure, not fat.Most women do not have a thigh gap, the site explains, citing Angela Guarda, director of the Eating Disorders Program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.STORY BEHIND TGAP JEWELLERY
TGap Jewellery is a fictional company that sells jewelleries designed for thigh gaps.
It is launched to catalyze a debate on unrealistic body image social media portrays.
thigh gap jewelry?! what has this world come to
— ai sya (@aisyazafirugh) April 1, 2016
I see they have thigh gap jewelry now. Call me when someone designs a little something for thunder thighs.
— katspaks (@katspaks) March 29, 2016
"Why'd you quit the internet? Was it the verbal attacks?"
"No someone invented thigh gap jewelry"
"oh ya of corse" https://t.co/XA572ehT19
— Feminist, The Happy (@HappyFeminist) March 30, 2016
Most people who thought the pieces were real were outraged, confused, and shocked, Bae told Motherboard. But there were a few who wanted to buy them.Some deception was necessary in order to get the "provocative jolt" and level of attention for her project she was hoping for, she said."The website was designed like any other online stores that actually sell products," she said in an email. "The jewellery pieces were designed and physically made, and professionally photographed to enhance the plausibility.""The jewellery pieces were designed to be believable so that they catalyse debate. Without catching people's attention, the awareness on body image issues I'm hoping to raise would not have happened."So… #ThighGapJewelry is a thing, eh? Is there jewelry that celebrates the LACK of a thigh gap? Because that's what I'm working with #hmm
— Well-Rounded Fashion (@WellRoundedFash) March 31, 2016