According to British Vogue - boobs are out! Out of style, out of fashion (and hopefully out of sight). As reported earlier this month, the fashion publication have stirred up quite a meaty debate with the question posed in their December issue (and on Twitter); "Is cleavage out?"

Obviously mass hysteria ensued from the Twitter-sphere, with some commentators correctly noting that "boobs are not a fashion trend".

I'm glad Vogue has declared the cleavage over because it gives me ample time to get rid of my old boobs and get new ones from Topshop — Holly Baxter (@h0llyb4xter) November 2, 2016

Not really shocked about the vogue thing, shocked that its 2016 & women are shamed for having boobs, sorry but girls have cleavage, it happens — Pam Beesly (@_emgreenn) November 2, 2016

So Vogue are basically saying that body shapes like mine are out of fashion. What about people who can't help having cleavage? pic.twitter.com/oK3mW7N7wR — Sophie Hall (@SophLouiseHall) November 2, 2016

As someone who has a larger breast size than the average high street manufacturer caters for, I feel their pain. I don't have Jordan sized boobs, but they're sadly too big to wear shirts without a secret button sewn in to the front panel to avoid the widely unattractive gaping side boob hole, I can't don a jelly-strapped vest top without a bra and I certainly can't go backless.

Loose-fitting high neck tops are out, unless the plan was to rock the billowing maternity look. Same goes for plunging tops - women of the smaller breast variety manage to wear these paired with a long skirt and look chic and elegant, whereas I look more at home on a street corner and get accused of 'looking too booby'.

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Polo necks are pretty much my autumn staple god-send; designed to actually flatter curves. But even then, I opt for dark shades of black and grey, so as to not draw extra attention to my bust.

It was at a recent trend presentation for next summer when my heart sank at hearing the words; "Shirts are and will be simply everywhere - we simply can't get enough of shirts".

Words that fill me simultaneously both full of dread and a small glimmer of hope (often called called denial), that maybe this season would be the season that I brave the shirt again - this season I would make it work and join in with the fashion savvy masses; looking the perfect mix of professional, polished and treading the line of androgynous style.

But alas, here I sit today, with that ever gaping side boob hole and a tightening on my upper back as it strains to keep my proportions in check. And once again, the shirt is banished to the back of the wardrobe, my new season hopes dashed once more.

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Yes, modern fashion is certainly not built for boobs.

Remember Victoria Beckham's huge D-cup boob job back in 1999? (How could we forget?) The fact that the designer formerly know as Posh Spice lopped off her cosmetically enhanced puppies back to their original a-cup size the minute she entered the a-list fashion world is no coincidence. Aside from common sense (and a collective sigh of relief from spectators), the fact she knew was that, big boobs simply aren't seen as chic and most definitely not in fashion.

This might have been easy for Ms Beckham, with a very large bank account at her disposal, but for the regular, naturally larger breasted common folk among us, this is much easier said than done. Boobs are not a fashion accessory, to be decreased or chopped off once they go out of style; they're here to stay, whether the media decides they're trendy or not.

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I, for one, would love it if this permanent body fixture was celebrated; not necessarily by pushing them up and out in everyone's faces (ask anyone and you'll rarely catch me in any sort of cleavage revealing ensemble), but by including the female anatomy when designing and manufacturing women's clothes; so we don't feel like we have to lop them off to fit into the latest trend.

Donatella Versace even recently weighed into the fashion body debate by declaring that she believes a lot of male fashion designers do not design clothes with actual women in mind, but for themselves; "I love gay people. My friends are all gay", she said. "But some of the designers, when they design for a woman, they design for the woman they want to be."

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Adding that; "They are thinking of themselves, but themselves and the woman are not the same… I want to design clothes that say, 'This is a woman's clothes.'"

Until the fashion industry realises that boobs are here to stay and cater to women of all shapes and sizes, most fashion trends will continue to befuddle and elude us, and negative comments surrounding our natural anatomy will continue degrade and shame us.

Vogue, take note.

Sarah Ilston Sarah is the Deputy Editor of Red Online.

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