Thin=Unhealthy?

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The clothing sizes really get on my nerves also. I'm 24 and can still wear the same clothes as I wore in middle school when I developed hip bones, even the fitted stuff for showing horses and ballet, and I weigh within 5lbs of what I did then. Back then I had no problem finding stuff small enough for me in a size 5. Now, I can't find anything that fits me. Any dress, lab coat (even the xs) or anyting outside of the Junior department (ie my work clothes) has to be taken up to fit. I have to buy jeans in size 1-3 that are still loose in some areas, even though I have those old clothes hanging in the closet that say 5. That's a lot of the reason why I don't like to shop. Anytime I find anything that I like, it never fits.

Oh, and I was looking at the life insurance charts from the 50s and 60s where they give what they viewed as the appropriate weight to height ratio, and according to those I'm ten pounds over weight. However, people are always telling me that I'm too skinny. Has our views on what the appropriate weight to be healthy is really changed that much over half a century?