wise words

From Erin over at dress a day:

There is more to life than the bogus imperative to minimize your apparent body weight at all times....imagine the question "Does this make me look fat?" didn't exist. How would that change your life? What would you do differently?

She has me thinking now; why do we always dress to look smaller? Why do we care? Why, if something is lovely and feminine, does it matter if it makes us look five pounds heavier? I'm talking about myself here, and I really don't know why I do it.