A Perfect 14

Enjoyable and entertaining documentary looking inside the modeling world and focusing on the "plus size" side of the industry and a lot of the wonderful well-known models. I was glued to the screen the whole time - it is very well done, great paced and heartfelt.

As someone who has spent most of her adult life as an "in between" size, this documentary felt extremely validating.

If the point of the fashion industry is to sell clothes, it would seem those designing for it missed the memo. Larger sizes sell. The money of larger customers spends just as well as the money of slimmer customers, and businesses are leaving money on the table by not offering an appropriate range of sizes. This documentary highlights that and many more truths about not just the fashion industry, but of societal perception in general.

I highly recommend viewing this, and being open to questioning your prior assumptions. You'll probably learn something.

Lovely filmmakers bring a subject of beauty and body image to the forefront with their in-depth look into the plus size modeling world...which leaves you asking yourself "yea, why do we call it 'plus size', truly they are just models-it's seems we have all been brainwashed to label "plus sized" if you're not the same size as what the fashion world uses to try their sample sizes on... I believe this film is helping bring about a revolution of defining beauty and embracing all body types on a mass scale!

This exceptional documentary exposes the completely distorted relationship the fashion industry has with body size, and by extension reveals how it's one of the last really societally accepted forms of discrimination. Through the lens of three unique, beautiful and fascinating models' stories we learn about the crimes this industry has perpetrated on its customers... relegating a perfectly average women's size 14 (which is the median size in America) to the "Plus size" designation which is so often forgotten, underserved, looked-down upon and sometimes straight up ignored.

This film is a celebration of the female form, and radically changed how I felt about my body as a result. I did not realize, and see, how I was being manipulated and led to insecurity as a customer for the gain of corporations... If you want a film to change how you think about the context of fashion, your clothing, your body, then this film is for you. If you want a great documentary about a strange and dysfunctional industry that touches everyone in some way, then this film is also for you.

It's a well produced, eye-opening piece with so much depth - and the models featured are courageous and fearsome. You will find yourself rooting for them every step of the way... Recommend!

This is a well-done, fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the plus size fashion industry. Not only is it informative, it has a great storyline behind it, following plus size icon Elly Mayday. Highly recommend!