(06-12-2016 07:56 AM)thebassist Wrote:That has to be a joke, I am 5'9 barefoot and Im about the same height of average young women in the Netherlands and the North of Germany, sometimes I'm even shorter than most of them in my university. 5'7 includes a lot of older generation and people with fully or partial foreign background. Ethnic Dutch Women (and applies also for young women in the North of germany) are more like 5'9 in my experience, at least those around 16-30 yo. Most Dutch women are either Blondes or have very light hair, those with very dark hairs are almost always of foreign background or have some indo ancestors.(06-12-2016 07:36 AM)JWLZG Wrote: Getting very OT, but: can you then explain why so many supermodels are Dutch and South African? A masculine look isn't very much preferred in a model.
Dutch girls might be big-boned (can't agree with them being masculine) but they do largely represent Western (i.e. global) standards of female beauty as an average.
Either the modelling agencies have extremely out of whack tastes, or we're so far on the manosphere gravy train that we're after yet another Germanic race to rag on.
The simple answer is that if we generalize over the many different subsets of modelling, height is probably THE most important criteria for nearly all types modelling one could consider.
Quote:While there are some exceptions, in most cases female commercial models have to be at least 5'6 or 5'7 and usually no more than 5'11 tallsource: https://models.com/help/005-what_are_requirements.html
Seeing as the Netherlands is one of the tallest countries in the world, the average female height is around 1.70m (5'7).
Now couple that with the fact that Dutch girls do have a lot of other features that are advantageous, such as a high diversity in hair color (blondes, brunettes, gingers, etc.) and eye color, and it doesn't come as much of a surprise that the Netherlands produces a lot of models.


