This has got to be one of the juiciest pieces of gossip we've ever heard -- and no, it's not about someone getting pregnant by her best friends husband, or another starlet on her way to rehab. This is about a common barista at Starbucks trying to do something for the greater good.

Summertime is right around the corner. For those of us who still follow the old rules, that means White Season!

White shoes, white bags, white dresses, and most dangerously, white pants. So easy to ruin forever with blueberry pie, so hard to find a flattering fit.

Here are a few of simple rules to take the fear and anxiety out of wearing these most unforgiving garments:

1. Be skinny-skinny-skinny. Where black is slimming, white ahem creates a visual expansion. Particularly of one's posterior. If you're not super slim, you may want to back away from the idea right now.

People laugh at Patrick Dempsey in his spandex biker shorts. Shock. [Page Six]

Check out Gwyneth Paltrow as a porcelain doll on the May issue of Vogue. [ShinyStyle]

Etiquette Checker -- never have bad breath on a date again! [productdose]

Gasp! The fashion industry uses sweatshops! New documentary will make people freak out, wish they were doing something about the problem, then forget about it on their way to buy cute designer knock-offs at Target. [Catwalk Queen]

The only way to wear white tennis shoes. [Hypebeast]

Dudes: read this before picking out your spring jacket. [Refinery29]

Don't gain weight ladies, you'll never fit into this chair, perfectly molded to some model's butt. [Gizmodo]

France might outlaw "inciting thinness." [AP]

There was an uproar in the fashion world in fall 2006 when Madrid and Milan fashion weeks turned away models without a healthy BMI. Since then, a debate has erupted over why America hasn't taken a cue from its European counterparts and imposed a minimum weight restriction on models appearing in fashion shows. Recently, a new voice has joined the party and he has some personal insight into the problem.

Former Halston designer Bradley Bayou had witnessed the industry's sample sizes shrinking, and he went along with it. His oldest daughter constantly tried to lose enough weight so that she could fit into his designs and look as pretty as the models he dressed.

Bayou was unaware that his daughter suffered from an eating disorder (and that he'd been contributing to it) until she entered therapy after a breakdown that had landed her in the emergency room. It was then that he realized the impact that the skeletal fashion models have on women across the world. This was three years ago, and Bayou isn't about to stop spreading his message: Fashion Can Kill.

If it's Tuesday, it's time to check Styledash's mailbag! We've gotten quite a few questions from readers over the last few weeks, and girls, do we have some answers.

Styledash reader Kay asks: "I like to inquire about pants that will fit skinny girls like myself. Size zeros or even double zeros (from banana republic) still too big. It is really hard to find pants these days."

Skinny girl? Size zero is too big? Yes, I realize that not being able to find clothes because you are "too something" is a problem no matter what that something is, but, um, okay, so Kay, honey, you have what I would call a "high-class problem."

Now then, on to solving that high-class problem! You need styles that add shape to your figure. Stay away from anything that makes you look even skinnier, like the dreaded skinny jean.

Celebrities -- particularly the skinny ones -- would like us all to believe that they eat like pigs, not birds. Nicole Richie says she loves french fries while Kate Bosworth dishes on her penchant for rich desserts. But should we believe them? Not on your life!

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who is known for her leggy frame and fat-less body, has also joined the fray of famous waifs who want the public to believe that they get to eat whatever they want. (As if we didn't already resent them enough for being so terribly rich and idle!)

In a recent interview, Gisele chocked up her hot bod to a steady diet of red meat. A supposed fan of McDonald's hamburgers, the 26-year-old model said that she balances her carnivorous diet with rigorous exercise.

(Suddenly, I'm dying to know what her cholesterol numbers are.)

Air-brushing scandals aside, I really do love Kate Winslet. In addition to being a great actress and bright human being, Kate Winslet also has a fantastic real girl body.

As a mother, Kate has also expressed her concerned about the influence of fashion magazines and super-skinny celebs on her young daughter. To foster an atmosphere of self-acceptance, Winslet has placed a moratorium on fashion magazines that feature photographs of ultra-thin people. (Presumably, that means no magazines at the Winslet household.)

I have to salute Kate for this one. Even though I write about fashion for a living, I actually stopped reading glossy magazines a year ago. Since then I really have felt better about my very real life. Somehow magazines always had a way of making me feel like I was missing something when in reality, I wasn't. Hopefully, the magazine ban will have a similar effect on the Winslet household.

Twiggy -- aka Lesley Hornby -- has recently added her own two cents to the skinny model debate. Instead of suggesting that the recent trend of sub-zero fashion plates is due to the pressures of editors, designers and modeling agents, Twiggy blames Hollywood actresses. In an interview with Mail on Sunday, Twiggy said, "Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It's scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them."

Coming from a woman who has long been accused of over-dieting, it isn't any wonder that Twiggy is quick to pass the buck onto someone else. It might seem like a chicken or the egg question -- which came first: the models or the skinny actresses. But in my opinion, Hollywood actresses are only mimicking the trends in the fashion world. After all, if you look at the Hollywood contemporaries of Twiggy -- Sophia Loren or Marilyn Monroe -- it seems obvious that the fashion world has been dictating body shape much longer than the film industry.

[via Vogue.co.uk]

You may love her or love to hate her, but the fact remains that Lindsay Lohan has become a style icon in today's celebrity-obsessed culture.

Ms. Lohan has been spotted all over Los Angeles, New York, London and Paris, attending fashion shows, sporting the latest (and sometimes disastrous) styles, and generally causing a ruckus wherever she goes. Recently Lindsay gave an extremely revealing interview to the News of the World, discussing her celebrity status, love life, and the overwhelming pressure from Hollywood to remain stick-thin.

With notorious stylist Rachel Zoe in Lohan's employ, it is not surprising that the starlet has shrunk to waif-like proportions. However, Lindsay seems to be fed up with never being allowed to feed.

"Sometimes being that thin doesn't look healthy. I kind of didn't realize that," said Lohan in her recent interview. "I feel great about my body now, though. When I was in the hospital I was overworked and stressed out and that's when they started talking about my weight. Now I am comfortable in my own skin and I like having a shape and having breasts the size they are."

I for one think that it would be wonderful to have a young, stylish starlet who wears fun clothing for the public to emulate, and is curvy rather than emaciated. Let's hope that Lohan uses her celebrity status and newfound attitude about her body to offer a more balanced perspective on fashion and the risks of becoming weight-obsessed.

Styledash has been covering the too-skinny celebrity debate for a while now. First there was the model ban in Madrid, followed by a similar measure in Milan, which consequently lead to some discussion of whether or not stylist Rachel Zoe's career would soon be coming to a close. And just like tragic clockwork, last week Nicole Richie entered a weight treatment center for what her publicist insists is "not an eating disorder." (Yeah, and Paris Hilton is "not a self-promoter.)

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Richie admitted that she was "too thin" and was "not happy with the way she looked." But she despite her admission of a significant weigh loss, Nicole has fiercely denied that she has an eating disorder, a claim that seems silly now that she has entered a treatment facility.

1990s supermodel Claudia Schiffer has spoken out about today's bone-thin models. "It doesn't really look good any more," Schiffer, 36, said in Germany's Bunte magazine according to Reuters. She acknowledged that fashion looks good on thin models but that today's models are just too bony to be attractive. Starting out, the German model was one of the curvier models but she has lost weight after having her two children and now eats chocolate and drinks whole milk to retain her figure.

Claudia's comments come after months of controversy regarding the super-thin models on catwalks worldwide. The models were banned in Milan and Madrid and there has been a lot of discussion regarding how thin is too thin for models. Recently when I was at fashion week I was waiting in line with a woman whose daughter was walking in one of the shows. She mentioned that her daughter had recently been in Paris and had been told by one of the designers that she needed to lose a half-inch of her hips. Her mother told me that her daughter didn't quite see how that would be possible given that she is 5'11" and weighs 115 lbs. While according to her mother, this girl just has lucky genetics, it seems to me that taking the naturally thin and making them even thinner is a sign that models really are too emaciated lately. I applaud Claudia's comments on bringing a little more meat back to the runway.