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Lingerie: What makes women use underwear? Introduction: Ever since seventh grade, one of my closest friends has had an eating disorder. Liz (name has been changed) always thought that her body was not perfect because she just so happened to be a little bit bigger than most of her friends. What she started to do was starve herself and work out intensely. For lunch, all Liz would eat were Saltines and oranges or apples. Even with that lunch she never ate every single thing. My friend started to look really thin; she was very pale and extremely weak. During sports she never was able to play for the entire game and she was never able to practice without taking water breaks or breather breaks. Her anorexia was incredibly noticeable on the lacrosse and soccer fields. Everybody new that something was wrong with Liz: you could just tell by looking at her. Liz thought that being anorexic would make her have the perfect, ideal “Barbie doll” body. I think that seeing all those models in magazines had a huge effect on her because she thought that was what she was suppose to look like. Seeing one of my best friends have an eating disorder since 7th grade has been hard. I would try to talk to her, give her advice, monitor her when or what she would eat, which was hard. My friend’s eating disorder got so bad that my mom and I had to go to Liz’s mom and talk to her. We told her that Liz needed to see a doctor and get help. So Liz’s mom started to take her to the doctor once a week to get weighed. The doctors would monitor her weight and if did not gain any she would have to go to a hospital to get more help. This is just an experience that I have seen, but there are so many more cases like this and that is what the marketers have drilled into our heads. Background: Fashion has been in existence since 3000 BC and through out the years it has changed drastically for the worst. But underwear has been here longer even if it wasn’t in traditional clothing material; it was formed in some type of way for example leaves. Underwear was first worn only by prostitutes and the lower class people. Upper class women thought that underwear were like pants and men only wore pants, but that all started to change once women started to see that underwear was made to cover the private areas on the body.

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