The shirt dress looks okay on the slim; back in the 80s I liked shirt dresses and looked good in them, but, then, back in the 80s I was slim.
Still, I can't possibly loathe any fashion style more than baggy dresses over pants.
As for the heads being cut off, one can find outrage if one wants to find outrage, I suppose, but the actual marketing mind behind cutting off the heads is to make you look at the outfit, not the model. Fashion is an extremely competitive industry and if you're making trendy clothes to appeal to trendy people, you don't want a minor thing like "I don't like her face" to make people dismiss your clothing line. Yes, "I don't like that model's face" is a reason people wouldn't buy clothes. I don't get it myself as I'm far more interested in the model's body so I can try and calculate how that same outfit would look on my body (for example, if the model is super-slim and the outfit is a little snug, it's probably going to be a LOT snug on my ample frame, which sometimes I might want and sometimes I might not).
I would generally avoid shopping at the Gap anyway; they are overpriced for the low quality of their product.
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Date: 2007-07-17 08:57 pm (UTC)Still, I can't possibly loathe any fashion style more than baggy dresses over pants.
As for the heads being cut off, one can find outrage if one wants to find outrage, I suppose, but the actual marketing mind behind cutting off the heads is to make you look at the outfit, not the model. Fashion is an extremely competitive industry and if you're making trendy clothes to appeal to trendy people, you don't want a minor thing like "I don't like her face" to make people dismiss your clothing line. Yes, "I don't like that model's face" is a reason people wouldn't buy clothes. I don't get it myself as I'm far more interested in the model's body so I can try and calculate how that same outfit would look on my body (for example, if the model is super-slim and the outfit is a little snug, it's probably going to be a LOT snug on my ample frame, which sometimes I might want and sometimes I might not).
I would generally avoid shopping at the Gap anyway; they are overpriced for the low quality of their product.