love it! though I hate how you now mostly wear clothes that aren't suited for most people. I'm a size 2 but you need te be really Rumi tones to be able to wear that! Cool though. Love it.

aw, lovely - not that that's unusual :]]
StockholmStreetStyle is always good for inspiration ^^

i'd never have thought a crop top would look so good! it makes your waist look absolutely miniscule (not that it doesn't look so otherwise). HOT.

Not many can pull this off, but you do really well!

PS - What nailpolish is that? It looks lovely.

i love her
and her midriff baring outfits.
and i love your necklace.

your abs are ...wow. are you careful about what you eat, or do you work out? or are you just naturally thin/toned? you dont have to answer if you dont want to. :]
cute outfit. i could never pull it off. but you definitely do!

how do you maintain your figure? just curious, maybe you are one of the lucky ones with a high metabolism!

Yikes, I think the wrong person already copied this look. You seem to have sluttified (sorry, just my opinion) the crop top look compared to carrie b. and all the others you have linked. It looks refreshingly great on them.

i'm pretty sure anyone can wear a crop top just as long as you don't have a tire around your mid area. you just have to get the proportions right. if you're not comfortable showing your stomach wear higher waisted bottoms with a longer crop top. sorry rumi, but i think you look a bit anorexic in that crop top...maybe a slimmer shirt would look better on your frame...

^The outfit is now ruined by the image of anorexic patients and druggies wearing similar things. But I did like the outfit when I first saw it. It's just that your waist in so incrediblely tiny and your tiny waist needs a tighter top on top..

loveeeee that necklace.

Rumi, I love your style, but please other bloggers don't go thinking you have to be as thin as Rumi to look good, or pull things off. Embrace what you have, curves will always be amazing.

you look hungry

I can't believe you're wearing something I don't like. The way it makes your hips/upper legs look compared to your stomach is so very wrong. Of course, saying it's slutty is wrong too. It's more... tacky, maybe? Just not slutty.

I also cannot believe what a lack of bangs does to your face, my goodness. It makes your facial structure stand out so much more- it's incredible! It's so much to the point that you just begin to remind me of Native American features. Such a random jump. So I for one am glad you had the bangs accident. :)

your too skinny.... not a compliment btw

also... tacky as hell. put some clothes on. i hope there are no young kids looking at this. gross.

Rumi, you don't look anorectic. You look great.

Do you just do yoga, or do you do other working out?

Rumi, I love your blog but something has happened to it lately. Does anyone else agree? It used to be a lot more unaffected, effortless really. You now seem to have lost what makes great outfits on great girls alluring: a sense of humility. I don't know why, but this last post really solidified that for me. Just spent the summer in France, where so many girls have the best style. Their secret is modesty. This lacks.

whats with all these anons bugging on the crop top? even though it may not be your favorite outfit, some common politeness exercised would be nice. i for one like this beachy/casual look.

http://almah.devote.se/
That's the beautiful swedish girl, she's amazing!

i have to say, you are so very right about Miss Bradshaw. Her bare-midriff looks were pulled off effortlessly, and she just looked so damn cool. I'm recalling a certain belted-bare-midriff incident that wasn't so fabulous...but I totally agree in naming her the queen.

seriously only you can pull this off, you have such a toned stomach. you should try to layer this tee over the mesh body suit.

They sell that top in ameriacan apparel you should know that lol you look gorgeous ( i do not think that is how you spell it) lol

xxxxxx

do you know that blog?¿

http://thoughtsaboutfashion.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=9

PLEASE EAT SOMETHING!!!

Please stop trying so hard to be a white girl. It's sickening!

eating disorder?

I am gonna start doing yoga with weights to get your hot body! You look great as always Rumi :)

Love the necklace !!

nice abs

THIS IS NOT HEALTHY!!! you are WAY too thin...so poor!

This outfit is so simple but looks so good, as do all your outfits! It's the perfect backdrop for that necklace.

(in reference to some of the stuff said above - Surely we all come here to look at this blog as a FASHION blog where we find inspiration for our style, not somewhere to analyse Rumi's body on a daily basis?? Most of us don't know her personally, and even if we did I think we still wouldn't have the right to drop comments like a couple that were left here. It's unnecessary, could be hurtful, and definitely not our business.)

rumi, you're a gorgeous girl with a hot body and genius style. anyone saying otherwise is evidently jealous, ignore their envious comments. you look stunning, as always.

I love the shorts, But not feeling the top, Beth from the Vintage S. pulled this look off very well a few weeks ago. It's hard to do this look with out looking like a 12 year old mallrat.

ooh, coming to new york ! im a blogger from new york (along with my friend, ciello)

when are you coming? if you need any tips on where to go, we got it all!! just ask away.

btw, i love your pictures, poses are inspiring as well as outfits. (i like doing photography)

Ahhh! I am starting up yoga asap. I can't believe some of these comments. Your body looks healthy and toned for someone with a small frame such as yours. Jealous!

OMG I hate you for looking so damn good! Your waist is a dream..Holy crap..

You look truly ridiculously good in everything!

Proud to be a Swede since we have people like Alma (the person in the picture you wrote about).

Love your blog!

this post just inspired 100 girls to throw up what they just ate for lunch. you must know you are a role model, and with all cattiness aside, honestly you do not look healthy.

ur trying to hard

gala, if you can't be respectful, then i will. i disagree with your outburst because anorexia is a VERY real problem in the fashion industry. girls DIE from it. and seeing imagery such as this, regardless of the fact that "this is fashion", these sort of photos can encourage girls to want to be skinnier and skinnier, especially girls that aren't naturally skinny, posing a real risk of death.

as someone who has suffered from an eating disorder for the last year (now in recovery...) I know what an anorexic/verging on ill person looks like. This is not it. This is a healthy slender girl with normal sized arms and legs and an enviabley toned flat stomach. People shouldn't leave such unpleasant comments on a fashion blog, comment on the outfit not the body shape

Oh my good, eat someting girl! Love your shorts

not a fun of the outfit but you sure can pull it off. it seems to me like u r trying out something new. i often experiment with my clothes and if i come up with a good combination i wear it over and over. it s my first time commenting on your blog partly because my English is so poor. have you ever considered dying your hair a darker colour?

Everyone is really concerned with what you eat.

Oh my gosh you look amazing! I could never pull this off, but on you it looks great! Your stomach is gorgeous! I don't think its too skinny, its just perfectly toned! Soooo jealous!

Oh your body is great and so are your outfit :D

everyone is being silly. rumi's slim definitely but not anoerexic. i srsly think its an asian thing; i've got thicker legs and a really toned stomach, even though i don't do anything. and look at her hips/thighs; they're definitely not BIG but they're not anoerexic skinny. just because you don't have muffin top does not mean you're anoerexic.

You either have a nicely arched back or a bigger butt for your frame, but either way--I think this is the first time I've seen any type of curve on you in that sideway shot! It looks fabulous! =)

hi there, i'm sorry but they are right, you might be very sporty and such, but your head is looking dangerously big, unproportionally big..you all know what that means...

You are so beautiful... just natural. You have the most amazing facial features. I love your body too, you are so lucky! Man you have curves and look feminine whilst being toned and slim. Your body is one I envy... and I'm sure the other people above are just jealous. I have friends that look like you, just naturally. That is a natural figure that would be impossible to gain without good genes. Please continue to amaze us with your daring and amazing outfits. :)

I aspire to have your confidence and style. You just glow. Please don't ever stop!

I don't care if this comment sounds lesbian/stalkerish. I assure you, I'm neither. You're just my bigges inspiration and through reading your blog, I have gained confidence to wear what I want to! I can wear ugly/weird clothes and look good if I want to. I don't have to be a sheep.




Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.


Please don't ever stop blogging and being yourself. I would be very upset Rumi! Haha.

Ok I'll shut it now.

i think you look great, and i agree that the eating disorder comments are just plain ridiculous. it's not something you should just go around accusing people of!

anyways, i love the cropped top but i think it would look better paired with something other than the denim shorts, and it would be a nice change to see you in something other than those levis :)

have you seen diane in the look? love http://www.fashionising.com/trends/fashion/n/Diane-Kruger-in-high-waisted-Grey-Ant-trousers/i/3316&iid=4582/

I am saddened by the controversy this post has sparked. We are conditioned not to tell people that they look overweight, but most people have little trouble telling someone they look anorexic without understanding the gravity of the statement or the disease itself. Anorexia first and foremost is a mental disorder, not created by the fashion industry, ballet, etc. Looking at a photo of a thin girl is not going to send hundreds of girls running to vomit their much unless they already have a problem. Saying that someone should gain weight because they are seen as a role model to young girls is ludicrous - the most important part of being a role model is staying true to oneself.

you are so beautiful! don't let anyone tell you otherwise :)

im annoyed with these comments. honestly, i am jealous of your waistline. tell me your secret because im tired of starving myself haha

the outfit makes your head appear bigger..... bobble head syndrome I'm not trying to be mean but someone has to tell you.... when i was a freshman in college i lost so much weight due to stress and being away from home i looked like a bobble head but of course no one told me till the next year when i gained back some weight and then my friends preceded to tell me... thanks guys

u look like a prebusent boy.... no joke... not hot

omg how odd there are so many negative comments. Not to add to fuel to the fire but I think maybe they might be driven by the fact so many people are overweight( Fat.) and feel insecure seeing someone pretty/skinny/highly popular blog site.

I'm just confused, I'VE always noticed you to be thin(and it looks nice!) I thought everyone else did too?? Hmmm. the hate is Out of control. lol

Ok not to turn this into thearphy, but I'm a size 2 and I'm like carrieish body type minus a cup size but I used to be really thin up until last year. I used to hate when people said things to me about it..(I was like a 0,98 LBS), esp negative, so Idk people need to think about how that feels.

you people suck for talking crap.
even if it is speaking your mind, its rude.

, btw i lovee that necklace!!!

I think you look amazing Rumi! I'm naturally petite and skinny and have gotten my fair share of negative comments about my weight. Some people just don't get that everyones bodies are different and no one should critize each other for it!

To add to the whole anorexia illness controversy thing... does anyone actually look further than her frame? Is her skin dry and pale? Are her eyes sunken? Does she look weak? Does she show signs of exhaustion? How does her complexion look?

No. She looks fine. She looks healthy. Anorexia is an illness. Don't tarnish all slim people with the same brush.

Hey Rumi, I have never commented before but I think your blogging is the best. It seems once every so often a torrent of abuse comes your way.
It is obvious that people who are negative and rude about your size are only envious. Do they really think that by being offensive and telling someone to eat in such a rude manner, would help someone with an eating disorder? I mean how sensitive! People seem to get so angry about other people's weight.
You look normal and lovely and your style is out of this world! And I am envious of that.
Still what a lot of nice, positive comments you get and I hope you focus on that...
I always look forward to your next post and thanks for writing this blog, Thea xoxoxox

Hey Rumi, I have never commented before but I think your blogging is the best. It seems once every so often a torrent of abuse comes your way.
It is obvious that people who are negative and rude about your size are only envious. Do they really think that by being offensive and telling someone to eat in such a rude manner, would help someone with an eating disorder? I mean how sensitive! People seem to get so angry about other people's weight.
You look normal and lovely and your style is out of this world! And I am envious of that.
Still what a lot of nice, positive comments you get and I hope you focus on that...
I always look forward to your next post and thanks for writing this blog, Thea xoxoxox

love ur body Rumi!

You look amazin Rumi!

Yikes, you're skinny! Love the clothes and I wish I had those abs!

OH so beautiful you are! :) Kiss

Hey! She's so not suffering from anorexia please!!! She's... normal-sized. Either that or the rest of the girls commenting are big-boned, because if you go to any Asian country (like where I am from) there are COUNTLESS of girls who are as skinny (if not more) than Rumi. And they don't exercise much.And they eat normally. Haha. If you gorge yourself just to "make yourself a role model to young girls out there", this unnaturalism surely parallels the unnaturalism of anorexia. Is that healthy then?

If she's fat, you girls would be appalled by her imperfection, yet there are other girls who slime her precisely for being hot. Come on!!! Anyway Rumi, I usually think you look pretty good, but this outfit (and the previous few) just do not do it for me! Frankly, you look rather skanky and all. It's not that you can't be sexy, but you can be sophisticatedly sexy. :).

I think you have an amazing body but this does make you look a bit too thin?

whoa i know you've mentioned before that you do yoga with weights but seriously! you have got to be bathing in the blood of virgins or something to look this good.
-kay.

please eat a sandwich. or two.

Hi rumi

I'm loving your levi's cutoffs. What number are they? 501s? Thanks!

x

Rumi, that was well said. Please keep doing what you are doing. You look healthy and strong, and you owe an explanation to no one. It is absolutely no body's business what one eats or does not eat. If there is real concern, then it should be addressed in confidence.

I think that when ever one puts themselves out there, they will be open to love and to haters.

It is so interesting what this simple post stirred up in people.

Thank you for sharing your style.

btw, I teach yoga. It is an amazing workout, and it is much much more. You pretty much need to be strong and supple to practice fully.

GOSH YOU ARE SO SKINNY!!! Rumi, I have that same ring! YAY! Now I love it even more, because we have the same one :)

Hi Rumi, I'm sure this may get lost in the barrage of comments but just wanted to leave mine.

I personally think you're gorgeous, and while you may be incredibly (enviably) tiny, I'm sure that is just good genes and you taking great care of your body. Keep up to fabulous fashion posts :)

x

I can understand why your so riled up at all the harsh posts, but you have an internet blog and everyone is entitled to their opinion. You post pictures of yourself in different outfits and of course it will be open to praise or attacks you put yourself in the position to be judged so I guess it just comes with the territory. And you contradict yourself by saying why the outrage as if some of us have never seen muscles or been to the beach when in your post you say u noticed how other people weren't even phased by your outfit which means you expected a reaction and what do you expect you got one

A really strange trend, but with a stomach like that you pull it off. Your figure is amazing, and don't let anybody tell you that you have a 'bobblehead'. You just don't.

I've always always been naturally slim (I'm 5 foot 3 and 90 pounds) but I eat like a (healthy) horse, and do no exercise at all. So it's understandable that you have such a great figure, seeing as you do exercise. I'm definitely going to go be my mum's yoga buddy.

Poor Poor Rumi.. I have been reading your blog for about six months, and Im shocked at this reaction. Personally i dont think you should be defending yourself..this is a fashion blog and everyone needs to remember that phrase 'if you've got nothing nice to say dont say anything at all'. How dare they be so rude.

Im a naturally skinny size 8 (uk)im 24 and i have always eaten what i want.I had a horrible experience when a girl i didnt know walked up to me in the toilet and angrily said 'im taking diet pills because of you' I cant tell you how much it upset me, Im built with a small waist and thin legs,my whole family is slim, I cant change it. Please delete all the horrible comments, you dont have to take it, and keep up your passion for fashion..you are a natural. Remember your fans and forget the others x x x x x x

Oh please. People are saying you look anorexic? That is ridiculous you look healthy and toned and athletic = amazing. Good for you, anyone with half a brain can see that you are the epitome of health.

ok last comment. You seem quite well(well stable) but I thought I'd say this anyway.

People are inherently quite selfish. They live with mirrors in front of their faces...so even when they're talking to you, they're talking to themselves. 90% of the time. Seriously.

Call me pessimistic, but that idea has helped me get over a LOT of criticism...well HARSH criticism and even downright negative comments about things that shouldn't concern other people like my ethnic background(black but my parents are mixed), my physiology, my hair, whatever it may be.

People are sadly driven by their emotions, lack of control of them, and their self-doubts. No doubt, theres Hormer Simpson in all of us, just some don't let it drive us to distraction.

Anyway, having said that, I hope you aren't taking the comments serious and thus feeling bad about yourself. Because these people are responding to their own insecurities, which of course has NOTHING to do with you.

Dude I really need a blog. lol

Rumi you look great and I like your take on the cropped top! I long felt it wasn't right when seeing them back om the street, (every once in a while, mainly on 40 year olds, don't ask me why?!?!!) After seeing Christina Ricci rock one in Black snake moan last year it was on my mind in a good way again..Anyway about this body conscious direction the comments you receive have taken, I believe people that are not naturally skinny might not understand that some actually are so without beeing unhealthy. Anyone can see that you dont have bones popping out, and that you are in fact very toned..And I envy your slim waist;) Anyway my point is that it bothers me that people think it's so OK to critic whenever someone is skinny, like it's a crime beeing even naturally so. A lot of girls actually put a lot of effort into eating as much as they can trying to gain unnatural weight as a result of such comments (I know, I used to be one of them)..I dont believe thats healthy either. You people that are such a hurry to make negative comments as soon as someone is skinnier than you(because I'm convinced that this isn't coming from skinny people!) please stop and think for a moment before you say something like that next time..

You look awesome. I wish I had worn more daring outfits when I could have. Now I have 2 kids and a stretched out lower stomach...no matter how many sit ups I do. I am pretty thin, 5'9" and 125, but just don't have the stomach for this anymore. Enjoy it while you can! (Don't get me wrong, the kids are totally worth losing the ability to wear belly baring shirts!:)
Heidi

I loveee you and I think you are absolutly pretty, but you are toooooo skinnnyyy!

"because if you go to any Asian country (like where I am from) there are COUNTLESS of girls who are as skinny (if not more) than Rumi".

i agree. Asian girls are usually build slender. i'm a size s but i'm huge compared to the people there.

What ethnicity is Rumi??? She looks so exotic to me

oh, thank you so much rumi! love your style and your blog!

Well, I really believe Rumi was born tiny like that. Growing up and most of my friends are Japanese, even my own best friend she's Jap and has a size 24 waist. Actually my bff has a similar figure as yours, toned legs and super small waist. She's born like that, too. I know how lucky U guys. She can eats whatever she wants and still maintain the same weight. I'm very jealous, too. LOL. As you know most Japanese people are very small in size. If you go to Japan, all clothing either one size or S and M the largest. Same thing as shoes size, they are mostly under size 7 womens believe it or not. It's just Japanese genetics. Same thing like their skin, they have such beautiful skin if you notice. Lucky U anyway.

GOD some people are so Jealous it's really scary, you look perfect, this is how young fit body look like, in the early 90s when i was a teen everyone wore cropped tops had tummies like this and we do not even knew what an eating disorder was. People totally lost their sense of what a normal young body looks like, i'm quite shocked really.
You look absolutely great, of course only the very young can get away with it, or at least people that did not wore it like this the first time around, and I hope all this people that criticized you do NOT try the look, i do not even want to imagine what they would look like.
I'm amazed how such a common item of clothe in the 80s and 90s can be so controversial in the 2000s.

you have the most amazing body!
haha god i need to work out some more if i want to pull the crop top off. What do you do to look that good?!

i just read through quite a few of the comments here and what the hell is wrong with some people.
She looks amazing, it's not tacky or slutty or anything.
Your just jealous :)
and i mean so am i but i would rather use it as inspiration to get my own abs looking as great.
I hope you don't take this criticism to heart... although i'm sure your used to some disaproving looks with some of your crazy (but amazing) outfits.
Keep doing what your doing, your blog is truly amazing i read it religiously haha.
xxx

anorexic beauty you are for sure

Honey, you look gorgeous. Do not even mind the Secret Internet Fatties, jealousy is such a powerful evil thing. You're stomach is toned as hell, giiirl,lets trade. And I love how daring you are. Thats what fashion is all about, trying new things.

You are so tiny!
Gorgeous though.

i believe the people who are leaving negative comments are extremely jealous... i've been reading your post for months now and I think you have an awesome bod...! not to mention an amazing wardrobe and style... even in your auctions you make them look nice.

that is an awful thing to call someone anorexic if you don't know if that person is! shame on those people. i have a sister that has an eating disorder and i can tell from rumi's figure that she is healthy and probably is really young so of course it's natural to have less curves. i was a size negative zero with no tone (rumi has a lot of tone) and i was never anorexic. i am asian frame and that is genetic. i ate like a pig. i'm no longer a size negative zero because i do not exercise or watch what i eat. and i'm not 20 something anymore. just because someone is thin does not make them anorexic. please! i think rumi looks terrific.

I think you look fab! Crop tops just have something so fun about them... they make me think of slip and slides, ring pops and eye-searingly bright nail polish lol. And people? This is a fashion blog. Not a food/body blog. I don't think it's AT ALL appropriate to comment on her body, only the clothes.

Damn Rumi, you're hot :). From a guy, I'm letting you know it's very attractive ;).