The thighs have it: Fuller legs are in fashion - fact!

By MIMI SPENCER

Thigh and mighty: Beyoncé (left) and Lily Allen

Good news, girls – thighs are having a fashion moment and, says YOU’s Mimi Spencer, chunky is most definitely funky this summer

Most of us, most of the time, sigh with resignation when faced with what is loosely termed ‘the Body of the Moment’. The term is never loose, of course. It is always
specific. Until lately, the BotM required a perilously slender frame, furnished with tennis-ball boobs. Before that, it was all androgyny and skinny-rib vests displaying no cleavage whatsoever. And before that? Remember the Glamazons – impossibly leggy women who were 98 per cent muscle and two per cent Poison by Dior?

But, lo, another body has emerged, and she’s arrived by stealth. You’ll have seen her about, and probably not quite registered the import of what you’re witnessing. But let me tell you: you are going to love this.

I’ll line them up for you so you can get a handle on the look. First up, Beyoncé.

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, with a cracking pair of thighs. Next, Lily Allen, queen of kooky cool and a pushover for a leotard. Now leotards, lest we forget, make a big play of the thighs. They almost beckon the viewer over to inspect the expanse of flesh between panty-line and knee. When you think of Lily’s leotards, you think, gosh. Brave. But she looks fabulous, with a proper pair, meat on the bone. The same goes for Leona Lewis: lovely voice, womanly thighs. Ditto J Lo. Even Lady Gaga’s alfresco thighs aren’t exactly finger-thin. They’re more thumb-thick, and all the better for it. And Kristin Davis isn’t afraid to show off her luscious legs in the new Sex and the City movie.


The real thing: Michelle Obama and Katy Brand


Then, perhaps, you notice that Michelle Obama is blessed with the real thing, too: a good, solid bottom half, which looks ace in those print dresses she wears so well.

Sarah Brown also springs to mind – on legs with substance and (this is the clincher) appeal. A bit like…well…a bit like mine.

And probably yours, too, which is why you’ll adore this turn of events. By now you’ll
have grasped that your body isn’t a million miles off the current must-have template.

I’m not talking thunder thighs. Not cottage cheese and orange peel, but pear.

Something pleasingly normal – something that plenty of women are displaying in city shorts without a sniff of self-consciousness. Oh, happy day!
Enough with the cover-ups, the apologies – your thighs are in fashion, my friends
It’s time, then, to dispense with the pareos on the beach. Enough with the cover-ups, the apologies and the grumble of discontent. Your thighs are in fashion, my friends! Rejoice! You can also take heart from recent research which makes thicker thighs a definite bonus. US scientists have found that men prefer looking at women with more weight around their bottom and thighs (it stimulates the same area of their brains as alcohol, apparently). And a Danish study has found that a small thigh circumference (below 60cm) is associated with a higher risk of premature death.

So, thighs with size are not only in fashion, they are medically endorsed. What a score. You may want to leave the leotards to Lily, mind. No need to scare the neighbours.


source: dailymail