I AM responding to the spring fashion article in Friday Life (March 21).

The pictures show what are literally impossibly tall and thin models, and send out entirely the wrong messages to other young women.

The pictures say: “If you don’t look like this, you are not beautiful”, and “if you don’t look like this, you cannot wear nice clothes like these”.

Pictures like these are a direct cause of eating disorders, and other psychological problems, in young (and older) women.

I appreciate that such articles may be syndicated but, Oxford Mail, you should be ashamed for publishing such irresponsible content.

LEN PORTER, London Road, Headington