Clothes brand gets 100 complaints a day that models are 'too fat

The boss of online clothing brand Snag has told the BBC it gets more than 100 complaints a day that the models in its adverts are "too fat". Chief executive Brigitte Read says models of her size 4-38 clothing are frequently the target of "hateful" posts about their weight. The brand was cited in an online debate over whether adverts showing "unhealthily fat" models should be banned after a Next advert, in which a model appeared "unhealthily thin", was banned. The UK's advertising watchdog says it has banned ads using models who appear unhealthily underweight rather than overweight due to...