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In reply to the discussion: Fascinating: In a women's sports clothing catalogue just received in the mail [View all]Warpy
(113,131 posts)2. "Yeah, that thing looks good on a Photoshopped size zero. How would it look on me?"
Anybody who's taken an outfit to try on when it's looked really super on a store mannequin knows the problem well, that what looks good on some ideal is not going to look very good on the real thing.
If the clothing industry doesn't wake up soon, they're going to start losing money hand over fist as women over 25 just give up on fashion completely.
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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