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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fascinating: In a women's sports clothing catalogue just received in the mail [View all]
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Our models...
Our models are not models at all. but real women, friends and friends of friends with real jobs and full lives.
Our "make-up kit" is a comb, a brush, a spray bottle, concealer and some hair ties.
Sometimes a "model" shows up for a swim shoot 5 months pregnant.
No air-brushing. We us Photo-shop to fix fly-aways and spinach in-the-teeth. We do NOT use Photoshop to build bigger breasts, higher cheekbones, longer legs or thinner thighs.
Our photostudio is the great out-doors. The sports and stunts are all real, and yes, things can get a little messy. Sometimes there are bumps and bruises involved. But always, there is courage, humor and good will in full measure.
We hope you like what you see.
The catalog is appropriately named: "title nine"
If only SI would learn to celebrate athletic women in such a non-exploitative way... BTW, the models are all naturally photographed, beautifully engaged in athletics. I'm sure their website must be equally refreshing: www.titlenine.com (and no, I have no interest in the company beyond my being impressed that they are setting a good example.
Progress, I hope.....
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Fascinating: In a women's sports clothing catalogue just received in the mail [View all]
hlthe2b
Feb 2014
OP
"Yeah, that thing looks good on a Photoshopped size zero. How would it look on me?"
Warpy
Feb 2014
#2
well, then good that it is coming up...I grew up with the Title IX fights--guess I'm old
hlthe2b
Feb 2014
#18
Absolutely...Phyllis Schafly and her ilck are the worst women--as Allen West is to African Americans
hlthe2b
Feb 2014
#22
The fashion industry seems to think that women never grow older than 30 trying to look 20.
appleannie1
Feb 2014
#29
Very slow progress there, though I was thrilled to, (for the first time) find petite clothing
hlthe2b
Feb 2014
#30
I am fortunate in that I sew and know how to alter but it irks me that I have to pay top dollar for
appleannie1
Feb 2014
#32
It doesn't matter who the models are or what they look like. Selling stuff with bodies is already
El_Johns
Feb 2014
#35
or maybe you don't. The concept of objectification is from Marx and has to do with commodification
El_Johns
Feb 2014
#37