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Original poster

..to love the harvey nics walk of shame ad

435 replies

spiderpig8 · 09/12/2011 17:21

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empirestateofmind · 12/12/2011 13:34

I can't watch the video for some reason. I am wondering if it has been blocked (Singapore).

PsychicSatsumaInYourStocking · 12/12/2011 13:36

nope Ive never done a walk of shame.

funny that at the end they want other people to send in their walks of shame!! what possible reason would you have =

oooh here's me, after Gary took me from behind in my Primark dress...

AnyFuckerForAMincePie · 12/12/2011 13:36

if this ad was supposed to "celebrate" women being able to do the "walk of shame" without impunity (as long as you are dressed well), as some of you are fervently wishing it is....why do all the women bar the posho look ill, regretful, sorry, scared, embarassed, wishing the ground would open up, depressed and downright rubbish ?

the first girl looks like something has awful has happened to her

I can visualise what that might be...how strange that other women can't

mind you, the Op lost me when she came out with this fantastically perceptive nugget.... In any case it's hardly normal for a rape victim to spend the night with her attacker is it? < shrug >

PsychicSatsumaInYourStocking · 12/12/2011 13:38

agree anyfuckerforamincepie

daenerysstormborn · 12/12/2011 13:39

it's an advert. for a shop. a shop that sells dresses. of course price has something to do with it.

MistleTobyLeWolef · 12/12/2011 13:40

They look regretful, ashamed, embarrassed, whatever because they're wearing awful clothes. I think it's reading a bit much into it to suggest that they look like that because they're ashamed of their one night stand/have been sexually assaulted Hmm

Alouisee · 12/12/2011 13:41

A shop that sells dresses and was also known for having a bar which was teeming with prostitutes. Well dressed prostitutes though.

nativitywreck · 12/12/2011 13:42

I do agree that class has nothing to do with the price of a dress.
I myself have a wardrobe with a fair smattering of designer dresses, and I can't pay my gas bill. And am quite common Wink

In fact, the people I know who shop at Harvey Nicks are definitely not the poshest! Posh people wear ancient cashmere navy jumpers and green wellies.

HN is strictly nouveau.

daenerysstormborn · 12/12/2011 13:48

"A shop that sells dresses and was also known for having a bar which was teeming with prostitutes. Well dressed prostitutes though."

sounds wonderful. can't imagine why i've not shopped there before.

grumplestilskin · 12/12/2011 13:51

Well I doubt I look happy and relaxed when fighting a hangover and missing my beer jacket and facing a tube/bus/walk home in last night's heels, still were good times!

grumplestilskin · 12/12/2011 13:53

and doesn't everyone look sad and regretful when their make up has run?

daveywarbeck · 12/12/2011 13:55

The bar in the Bristol HN store is gorgeous though. So is the restaurant, in a clearly designed pre credit crunch sort of way.

MrsHoarder · 12/12/2011 13:57

Even as a feminist I can't see the point of having a similar ad with men in it: because its the posh (black tie) outfits that look the silliest in the morning. Guys wearing high street shirt and jeans will generally look reasonably normal.

SardineQueen · 12/12/2011 14:08

"They look regretful, ashamed, embarrassed, whatever because they're wearing awful clothes"

Did they look ashamed and regretful when they went out in the evening in those clothes then? Confused

grumplestilskin · 12/12/2011 14:11

just watched it again and still don't see rape, the first girl looks like she's thinking more about the journey facing her than what she's left in the house and the one holding her stomach just looks like she's about to puke. All the first lot look like their shoes don't fit and the last one has comfy ones.. and the one in the gold dress definitely looks posh

grumplestilskin · 12/12/2011 14:11

I mean the REALLY gold one near the start

sickoftheemails · 12/12/2011 14:13

The gold one doesnt look posh at all to me...she looks like a scouse girl

grumplestilskin · 12/12/2011 14:15

I meant posh as in has expensive clothes and jewellery on, not posh as in classy

sickoftheemails · 12/12/2011 14:16

that dress looks cheap like its off the markets to me

TheLightPassenger · 12/12/2011 14:16

It's a horrible, negative, classist advert. They could have made the same point much less unpleasantly without using the "walk of shame" wording - and if the only difference in the models as looking a bit cold rather than weight/class difference.

grumplestilskin · 12/12/2011 14:18

yes but like I said before, I see no difference (except price) between some REALLY expensive lines and market clothes

askalexia.com/2010/10/13/versace-gold-draped-metal-mesh-dress-priced-at-5500-each/

Get0rf · 12/12/2011 14:18

The one in the gold dress (supposedly posho) looks like one of the girls at Aintree that we all like to laugh at each year, tbh.

That said, the advert is vile imo. The 'scummer' girls look so sad. It really is quite horrible.

Certainly classist and mysoginistic. You can imagine the collection of admen with their overbites laughing uproariously at the fat gels in Jane Normal clothes.

Urgh.

sickoftheemails · 12/12/2011 14:19

that looks nothig like the jane jetson dress that girl is wearing

grumplestilskin · 12/12/2011 14:21

It looks market stall tacky though right?
That was a 10 second google BTW

Cherriesarelovely · 12/12/2011 14:21

I think it is snobby and the end is very, very annoying. It's like you're laughing at the women and not with them, which I hate. It does also have the subtext that you are somehow disgusting if you don't look like a model and wear expensive clothes. Most of us cannot afford to shop in Harvey Nicks even if we wanted to.....well I speak for myself and most of my friends.