“Those aren’t mannequins, they are real women, and they are gorgeous,” wrote one of more than 3,350 commenters on the Facebook photo posted March 11 by Women’s Rights News.

The study looked at both male and female mannequins yet found only 8% of male mannequins to be unrealistically underweight. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

When it comes to in-store mannequins, I just want to see how the clothes will fit, and outfitting stores with models of realistic female bodies rather than impossible pipe dreams is a good start.

A mannequin's head is covered in a woman dress shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. Ebrahim Noroozi/AP hide caption ...

Women In Film and Foresee Films are hosting a screening of the black-and-white silent short film About Mannequin, featuring live accompaniment from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Set for ...

The authors write: “The average female mannequin body size was representative of a very underweight woman and 100% of female mannequins represented an underweight body size.

Women In Film and Foresee Films are hosting a screening of the black-and-white silent short film About Mannequin, featuring live accompaniment from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.. Set for ...

Woman holds silent protest against Taliban university ban in Afghanistan. Not long after they seized power in August 2021, the Taliban Ministry of Vice and Virtue decreed that all mannequins must ...

Women In Film and Foresee Films are hosting a screening of the black-and-white silent short film About Mannequin, featuring live accompaniment from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Set for ...