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..to love the harvey nics walk of shame ad

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spiderpig8 · 09/12/2011 17:21

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LynetteScavo · 11/12/2011 19:21

This thread seems to have gone full circle.

First of all the first wome n had defiately had sex Hmm

But now if they were raped it wasn't their fault.

Maybe they didn't have sex, but just wore a bad dress and cheep shoes! It does happen. Lots!

And Harvey Nicks woman would definitely have grapefruit for breakfast, not kebab. Which is why she is so skinny.

And funny how I see the men in the ad looking concerned (Apart from the last postie). Obviously others see them differently.

StewieGriffinsMom · 11/12/2011 19:43

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zanz1bar · 11/12/2011 19:54

Vile, sack the ad agency they got it oh so wrong.

sickoftheemails · 11/12/2011 19:55

If the woman was in the dress, walking down the road and then looking smug on the tube then it would have been more effective imo

bitemabum · 11/12/2011 20:15

I'd never seen this ad before and i have to say i hated it, the women were all walking pulling down their skirts as if something awful had happened not like they'd had a good time. if it had been men doing the "walk of shame", would they have been portrayed in this way? An ugly advert that does nothing for the equality of women.

JennyPiccolo · 11/12/2011 20:19

ive never been embarassed to walk home after being out all night. Men do it too, i saw a guy dressed as captain america at ten o clock the other morning eating a roll.

bitemabum · 11/12/2011 20:30

Indeed JennyPiccolo, i saw Santa this morning with a bacon bap and an Irnbrew but maybe that's something else altogether.

bitemabum · 11/12/2011 20:32

Having just watched it again, it loks more like a rape crisis ad than anything else. Awful message.

grumplestilskin · 11/12/2011 20:45

I liked it! reminded me of my 20s when I lived somewhere less sleepy - used to sleep over at friends houses rather than us all make our own ways home at night so in the morning I'ld get busses home with killer heels that I danced all night in and short dresses, or else I'ld end up staying at the BFs unexpectedly so hadn't "packed" and had to go home in heels and one of his hoodies!

made me smile, called it the walk of shame but wasn't necesarily about one night stands, just reminded me of being young

nethunsreject · 11/12/2011 20:47

Omg - utterly awful!

OrmIrian · 11/12/2011 20:56

I didn't know 'walk of shame' was about a one-night stand. Why shame? I had assumed it was to with women being crap at buying clothes that flatter, and more significantly FIT! And I don't think that is the preserve of Harvey Nicks.

MMMarmite · 11/12/2011 21:32

eugh it's weird. Women should be ashamed to have had sex, unless they're beautiful and wearing an expensive dress?

Angry

JennyPiccolo · 11/12/2011 21:42

might just be a scottish thing, bitemabum.

SugarBabyLove · 11/12/2011 21:52

What does the last one say to the Postman?

bonkersLFDT20 · 11/12/2011 21:59

I've done the walk of shame so I can see the funny side of the advert I suppose, but I honestly don't think I would have felt any better had I been wearing Harvey Nicks! The other women look ashamed, the last one doesn't. I could be wrong, but I suspect this has little to do with where you buy your clothes!
But all adverts are stupid aren't they?
FWIW, I've had "walk of shame" conversations with men and women.

ReshapeWhileDamp · 11/12/2011 22:55

It's foul. Sad can't imagine why anyone would think this sort of advert was a good thing, really. It's 2011 and we still get this sort of shit.

aubergineinautumn · 11/12/2011 23:21

I thought it was one of those Scottish government anti-rape ads at first.

Horrific that so many people think there's nothing wrong with it.

imogengladheart · 11/12/2011 23:48

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kipperandtiger · 12/12/2011 02:59

Daft ad. However, HN always seems to put out bonkers ads, although their stores are nice.

JanetPlanet · 12/12/2011 06:02

They all look so vulnerable, especially the blond running and holding her stomach. Agree that it's sexist/classist/sizeist

Bubbaluv · 12/12/2011 06:20

I agree LynetteScarvo.
We don't see the other girls get home so we can't make assumptions about where they live. Who's to say the others didn't all buy their dresses at Harrods - they sell plenty of short tight tarty dresses.
You can dress beautifully out of high-street stores and very badly out of posh stores.
HN is, of course, targeting women who can afford to shop in their store so they want to make the heroine of their ad look like someone their target market can relate/aspire to. Showing her trudging a up to the 6th flight of stairs at her flat in a grimy block of flats would hardly be appropriate even if it might be more socially inclusive.
Why on earth has rape come into this? There is no suggestion that any of the girls has been raped - what a horrible way to think!

pictish · 12/12/2011 06:32

Crap ad.

All the girls are fairly ordinary except the Harvey Nicks one who is a leggy model who lives in a snooty house. So she's allowed.

What a depressing, elitist, superficial, shallow advert. Yuck.

HollyGhost · 12/12/2011 07:03

They are trying to send the message that if you shop at Harvey Nicks you avoid the contempt that most women have experienced at some point, just for getting on with their own lives.

I don't think that they succeed.

I wonder how they will develop this theme, perhaps an ad featuring women with grubby, tantrumming toddlers negotiating the streets, compared to size 8 model wearing Harvey Nicks posing as a mother with a stepford-child.

HollyGhost · 12/12/2011 07:09

As for "Why on earth has rape come into this?"

Like many others, I assumed it was a rape crisis ad.

diddl · 12/12/2011 07:13

Well, for me, the only time my tights were in the same state as those of the first woman´s were were after I had been raped.

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