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?

Always of the same colour too in various shades of the colour.
Side on, leg stuck out.
Pathetic.

Because the DM likes to push the traditional, 'feminine' ideal. They always tend to show women in the Femail page in dresses/skirts/heels. Especially if they are bleating about the joys of domesticity...

[quote nosswith]@RufustheSniggeringReindeer sorry to hear this, hope she has recovered from the shame of being in The Paper that Supported the Blackshirts.[/quote]
I doubt she has any shame about it,

A) most people don’t think of the back story of their newspaper

B) she was asked (i think) to do it as part of a cancer charity...she may not even read/buy it

And she did look fabulous....

Unless it's a sad face article of course.
I'm surprised they don't do a ' me now' picture at the bottom of the article.

Kate Middleton is their ideal woman and they want us all all to dress like her.

Would you like to explain to either The Queen or Princess Anne they will have to remove their jodhpurs, if they want the honour of appearing in The Mail?

The dresses look as if they hail from Polyester State.

I have done lots of photo shoots. My favourite outfit was a gorgeous jumper teamed with trousers, but they only took photos of my top half. I live in trousers and tee shirts and enjoy the dresses they have chosen for me. I would never normally wear high heels, but last time they found me a pretty blue pair. In the studio, they use a plain background so the outfits really stand out. The stylists nip out to Kensington High Street to buy the clothes. It's a great and fun experience and you get paid. As to the comment about fugly, each to his own. These dresses are in every high street store, so someone must buy them.

How did you even see the article? I thought it was pretty much a membership rule of this site that you can’t read the mail. Ever.

The Daily Mail isn't middle class.

I think it's aimed at working class people who'd like to be middle class.

@Kolsch

Always of the same colour too in various shades of the colour. Side on, leg stuck out. Pathetic.

On the “What are you wearing zzzz” threads on MN, the posters always do a little girl pose, one toe pointing inwards. Odd.

@Wnikat

Why is it always a wrap dress??

It hides their “mum tums”. That’s the idea, I think...

@Ismellphantoms

I have done lots of photo shoots. My favourite outfit was a gorgeous jumper teamed with trousers, but they only took photos of my top half. I live in trousers and tee shirts and enjoy the dresses they have chosen for me. I would never normally wear high heels, but last time they found me a pretty blue pair. In the studio, they use a plain background so the outfits really stand out. The stylists nip out to Kensington High Street to buy the clothes. It's a great and fun experience and you get paid. As to the comment about fugly, each to his own. These dresses are in every high street store, so someone must buy them.

Well, I’m sorry but aspirational or inspirational, they are not. I don’t imagine many buy the clothes; it’s more likely they go in truckloads somewhere or other - where clothes go to die.

@Cattenberg

The Daily Mail is a naice middle class newspaper

It really, really isn’t. It’s rabble-rousing rubbish.

Exactly.

Hyacinth Bucket epitomises a Daily Mail reader. Def not middle class.

@GladAllOver

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

^This

On the “What are you wearing zzzz” threads on MN, the posters always do a little girl pose, one toe pointing inwards. Odd.

How very dare you state this. People choose to pose like this, and how they look is absolutely no one else's concern but their own.

The trouble is, it does have some stories which others don't cover, and I absolutely don't mean 'sleb drivel, it is sometimes a heads up to facts you can follow up and confirm elsewhere. 'Sleb drivel is now infesting what used to be serious papers, so nowhere is safe.

@Ifailed

On the “What are you wearing zzzz” threads on MN, the posters always do a little girl pose, one toe pointing inwards. Odd.

How very dare you state this. People choose to pose like this, and how they look is absolutely no one else's concern but their own.

Riiiiight. Looks silly.

I was waiting for yabu for reading the daily mail.

But honestly, I read any and all newspapers and news websites. But the daily mail is bloody hilarious.

I love reading the Mail and will happily admit it.

@EggBobbin oh yes, the old assumption that men earn more than women.

In my team at work a couple of the guys alluded to this. First of all I know that I outearn them (and suspect that a couple of the other women do too), secondly, all the women in the team either live very comfortably on their own, are the breadwinner with a SAH male partner, or significantly outearn their husbands.

In my last job my colleague was travelling for work often, her MIL asked “can they really make you do that?” As though her job wasn’t as important as the important mans job. She earned more than double her husband

@EggBobbin

The article was forwarded to me by an older relative as I’m about to take maternity leave. I earn more than DH.

Email them back: "what a good idea! Since I am the main breadwinner, once I'm done with maternity leave I'll start giving DH a daddy salary so he can buy himself some pretty things."

I feel like the wrap dress/nude heel look may have been started by one of the columnists. The one who was always googling her name and complaining about Mumsnetters making fun of her. Used to write about smacking her kids a lot?

@nevermorelenore Shona Sibary?

I love a flick through the mail for a giggle. I have noticed the "DM Look" but since I only wear skirts or dresses and I do team them with nude heels, I'd probably tick the box exactly!

On the “What are you wearing zzzz” threads on MN, the posters always do a little girl pose, one toe pointing inwards. Odd.

Jess Cartier-Morley is THE WORST for this and the comments in the guardian always reflect it

I think it’s worst when people post “what do you think of my outfit” and they have really dirty, dusty mirrors and messy bedrooms with clothes everywhere.