It’s because our clothes are lying to us:
. . . I immediately went across the street, bought a tailor’s measuring tape, and trudged from shop to shop, trying on various brands’ casual dress pants. It took just two hours to tear my self-esteem to smithereens and raise some serious questions about what I later leaned is called “vanity sizing.”
Your pants have been deceiving you for years. And the lies are compounding:
H/T to Mark Frauenfelder for the link.
. . . by allegedly firing the model whose Photoshopped-to-stick-insect proportions drew the criticism in the first place:
The model featured in the Ralph Lauren Photoshop stick insect outrage — in which she was Photoshopped to within an inch of her life — claims she was sacked by the company for being “too fat”.
Filippa Hamilton suffered such an extreme digital makeover in an ad for the fashion company that BoingBoing was prompted to gasp: “Dude, her head’s bigger than her pelvis.”
Ralph Lauren quickly threw DMCA takedown notices at BoingBoing and PhotoshopDisasters for exposing the folly, but subsequently decided to apologise.
Karl Lagerfeld puts you into your place, fatty:
Karl Lagerfeld, the eccentric German fashion tsar, has waded into the debate about size-zero models by saying that people want to look at “skinny models” and classing those who complain as “fat mummies”.
Lagerfeld, 71, was reacting to the magazine Brigitte‘s announcement last week that it will in future use “ordinary, realistic” women rather than professional models in its photo shoots. He said the decision by Germany’s most popular women’s magazine was “absurd” and driven by overweight women who did not like to be reminded of their weight issues.
“These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly,” said Lagerfeld in an interview with the magazine Focus. The designer, who lost a lot of weight himself when he went on a strict low-carbohydrate diet several years ago, added that the world of fashion was all to do “with dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women”
The complaint about ultra-thin models has a lot of merit: the model is chosen to be as close to a clothes-hanger as possible, to improve the sales of the item at retail. It’s easier to persuade buyers to buy things that look like they do on the runway when they’re in the store.
The fact that the majority of women in western cultures don’t come close to fitting that sort of clothing is largely ignored. The designers tend to prefer clothes that do not provide room for typical womens’ hips, breasts and curves. One sometimes wonders if the clothing is supposed to be equally attractive on bone-thin fashion models or young teenage boys . . .
Image from BoingBoing. Extreme photoshopping in the original ad.
Dita von Teese has had an unusual career path, from retro-40’s and 50’s style cheesecake model to having her own lingerie line with Wonderbra:
It’s not the usual style of clothing you would expect to see burlesque queen Dita Von Tesse [sic] wearing.
Clad in an outrageous Christian Lacroix wedding dress, the sultry fetish model poses during a fashion shoot in Paris for the latest edition of Harper’s Bazaar Russia.
The 37-year-old is covered from head-to-toe in the ivory-toned gown which is bejeweled with colourful roses and a headdress with a golf leaf design.
With her head tilted to one side, Von Tesse [sic] looks Madonna-like during the ‘Saint And Sinner’ themed fashion shoot, which launches her new Party Edition lingerie range for Wonderbra.
But she also reverts to form by wearing a provocative black outfit.
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