National Sizing Campaign
• Sexual Health
The French are getting fatter.
But the organizers of the sizing campaign in the apparel industry insist that its goal is not to define the French ideal of beauty. That was done in 1999 when the French decided that the blue-eyed, brown-haired lingerie model Laetitia Casta (measurements 35-24-35, height 5 feet 7) should become the new "Marianne," the symbol of the French republic on statues and public buildings.
French legs, he says, have grown more than French torsos over the years.
