To wonder why women in daily mail features always wear dresses?

[Mammylamb]

Every time I see a feature in the daily mail, I notice the women are always wearing dresses, looking as though they are going to tea with the vicar. Anyone any idea why this is? I’m sure that the women don’t always dress like this in real life, so does the daily mail give them dresses to look like stepford wives?

Yes it's a photo shoot - they give them a hair and make up session and a stylist brings clothes.

They’re trying to provoke a reaction.

All the women that appear?

I doubt the DM have a wardrobe dept, I suspect that the women you're seeing think it makes them look smart as opposed to being dragged through a hedge backwards.

Never thought about it before, but you are right. Dress or bikini. Of course those are my normal daily choices...
Daily Mail’s right wing ‘back to the fifties’ agenda at play here.

For the readership - (heteronormatively) to entertain men and allow women to criticise. The Torygraph used routinely to put a 'pretty young thing' on the front page for the same reason.

The Daily Mail will not allow women in their photos to wear trousers. If they send a photographer, they ask you to change, if you won’t, they won’t take the photo. Crazy isn’t it?

[I know this through my work, btw]

@thatonehasalittlecar

The Daily Mail will not allow women in their photos to wear trousers. If they send a photographer, they ask you to change, if you won’t, they won’t take the photo. Crazy isn’t it?

[I know this through my work, btw]

Really?!

Is it so they can say things like “she poured her curves in to a tight dress, sensationally showcasing her figure”

You're surprised that the Daily Mail has narrow criteria for what is acceptable in women?

I have insider information as work in that industry.
They either outsource a stylist and photographer in a studio, stylist brings the dresses and shoes, or photographer goes to home.
It absolutely is a thing that women are told to wear dresses.
It's absurd.

I can attest that The Sun doesn't care - I have featured in a story in The Sun and they don't care what you wear. Or don't. Depending on the story. (I did)

An electric blue wrap dress and nude heels is the height of fashion apparently!

I'm not sure why they do this but the dresses are bloody awful. An ex-colleague of mine lost a load of weight and ended up in one of their judgemental lineup pictures. She's mid-20s and looked 20 years older by the time they were done with her.

I bet they put lesbians in trousers (I say this with no evidence or knowledge, but as a lesbian who has complained to the regulator about how they cover stories involving gay people.)

Bloody hell. Who could possibly want to understand the Daily Mail?
It's a bag of festering, stinking shit.

And it's always the same look...a usually unflattering dress that sits just below the knee with nude heels!

This used to be ordered by Paul Dacre and guess they’ve carried it on.

It's the same on TV at the moment - check out Star-Trek discovery for instance. all the women have long hair, unless they are lesbians or 'non-binary'.

I'm noticing it everywhere - short-haired women just don't exist unless they're trying to indicate something about their sexuality/identity - even Fear the Walking Dead for Gods sake - all the women have long hair, except one, and yep, she's a lesbian (or bi-sexual, unknown how she feels about men)

Used to be that women journalists there were told to wear skirt suits not trousers and were forbidden from eating at their desks, while Male colleagues could. Not sure if it is still like that.

Because women are submissive creatures who are so much more approachable and less threatening in a dress than in these aggressive pant-suits favoured by these wayward young types. And no respectable woman over a certain age would wear trousers!

@AiryFairyMum I can completely believe this. Sexism in the workplace is still rife in many companies. My friend is a chartered accountant. She told me she was covering reception at work one lunch time. I asked why, as it’s usually students who do this. She said that the only students there today are boys, and they can’t ask a boy to go on reception

Gosh, my mum and mum in law are about 70s and live in jeans and trousers. The last time I saw them in a dress was on our wedding day, 15 years ago!!

They sometimes have men in dresses/skirts too. (See passim current thread about men "not allowed" to wear skirts )

Because its right wing fantasy land?

I was in a feature in the Femail section a while back. They couriered a stack of fugly dresses to my house and a few days later came and did a whole hair and makeup/photo shoot. Took all day, they set up a white background and a chair and my DH and I had to do a load of set poses. It was hilarious.

Sadly I had dyed my hair bright pink in the month between the interview and the photoshop thing so they never used the pictures, instead used the home photos I sent in.

Embarrassingly, despite my assuring my husband it would be buried in the back of the paper, our photos ended up on the front page banner 🤣

Photo shoot not photoshop...

I wore trousers when I had my picture in the daily mail, don't own any dresses but they never asked me to wear one anyway. Asked me to change my top though to something less patterned.