Emma Watson Wedding Dresses

[YearsSinceISawYou]

All those at the Earth shot Awards were asked to wear outfits that considered the environment-I suppose this means second hand or worn before. At any rate, that's what they did.

Along comes Emma Watson with her Harris Reed designed dress, made from 10 upcycled wedding dresses from Oxfam.

AIBU to think that if Emma really cared about this sort of stuff-as she often says she does-she would have left the 10 wedding dresses in Oxfam, so that 10 people would have been able to recycle 10 dresses-with the added bonus that they would have been affordable for those people.

Instead, she takes all ten of them and chops them up, thus showing herself to be an over-privileged hypocrite, who cares more about making a headline than 'saving the planet' or thinking about the women who could have made real use of those dresses.

Surely she had something else in her wardrobe that she could have used.

@Chipsinthewoods

Yes, that says it better....attention seeking rather than awareness raising.

If only I had stopped frothing for one second before I posted in order to be more cogent!

[quote mumjustmum]@YearsSinceISawYou perfect, so as you recognise you have NO FUCKING CLUE either. I invite you to see the best in people, half glass full kinda thing, and unknot your knickers. [/quote]
Getting a bit frothy there, dear.

You do sound as if you try to see the best of people in your own unique way.

There's no rule that you have to wear a wedding dress at all, new or second hand.
Charity shops are a first come first served.
YABU.

Yanbu Emma Watson is among the worst virtue signallers out there. I don’t generally have much opinion on celebrities but the way she turned on JK Rowling, the woman without whom she would have no career, was despicable.

@YearsSinceISawYou I do, I really do. Thank you for recognising that, such growth. Proud of you.

"I invite you to see the best in people, half glass full "

If that stops us from pointing out hypocrisy and their actions having the opposite effect of their aims, then no.

OP I agree with you.

Talk about seeking out the negative in anything and everything
Must be shit to have this approach to life

Yabu, the way you are framing it she can’t win. Either she doesn’t wear a second hand dress and then she’s ruining the environment, or she does and then she’s a rich person stealing the opportunity to buy second hand from poorer people. You really don’t like her do you?

It's possible (though unlikely) the dresses were damaged.. I bought my wedding dress from Oxfam online. Lovely floor length ivory silk princess line dress with hideous sleeves. Because one of the sleeves was stained, they listed it at £15. Once I'd removed the sleeves and taken all the seams in a bit it fit exactly and looked perfect. I don't know if Oxfam often sell damaged clothes, but in my case I wouldn't say disposing of the sleeves would have counted as wasting them.

It's only a celebrity wearing a dress. Are you Emma's mum?

Headtilt!

I’ll judge just as soon as I’ve also donated over £1.5 million to charity and been a UN ambassador by age 31.

It’s of course difficult to say without seeing the wedding dresses hers was made from but I’d wager there are probably more second-hand wedding dresses out there than there are women currently in the market for a second-hand wedding dress.

So much of what gets donated to charity shops ends up a huge burden for the charities, who have to find storage for it all and have to make arrangements to get rid of things that don’t sell. I’ve heard that unsold clothing (though hopefully not wedding dresses!) often ends up getting shipped to poorer countries, who then end up with piles of rejected poor-quality crap clothing that they in turn have to deal with. So I think giving old charity-shop clothing a new lease of life and turning it into something new and exciting sounds like a wonderful idea.

It's ostentatious but lots of celeb stuff is. Your level of outrage seems a bit OTT OP!

Oh I didn’t know that’s what it was. Hmm I can understand your reasoning, that’s a lot of wedding dresses. I do like Emma Watson though.

@TuftyMarmoset

I think there was a third option: to do what most of the others did and fish something out of their wardrobe that they had worn before.

Anyway, I still think she is a virtue waving hypocrite-no, I don't like the persona she puts forward- although I can see that the thread has raised the blood pressure of a few, one or two to a dangerous level.

Unless there’s some campaign going on to encourage more rich people and designers to buy/make recycled couture and it’s passed right over my head.

She might even encourage more people to buy second-hand clothes from charity shops and we can't have that can we?

Anyway, I still think she is a virtue waving hypocrite-no, I don't like the persona she puts forward- although I can see that the thread has raised the blood pressure of a few, one or two to a dangerous level.

I'm on the app so I can't see the live blood pressure measurements from posters - can someone tell me how to view them?

[quote YearsSinceISawYou]@TuftyMarmoset

I think there was a third option: to do what most of the others did and fish something out of their wardrobe that they had worn before.

Anyway, I still think she is a virtue waving hypocrite-no, I don't like the persona she puts forward- although I can see that the thread has raised the blood pressure of a few, one or two to a dangerous level.[/quote]
So many truly vile people on the world who have done heinous things

And you choose this to get your knickers in a twist about.

Anyway, I still think she is a virtue waving hypocrite-no, I don't like the persona she puts forward

Why don’t you tell us what this is really about?

Do you really think that most people pull out something they’ve worn before for their wedding?

@WithMyEncyclopedia

Anyway, I still think she is a virtue waving hypocrite-no, I don't like the persona she puts forward- although I can see that the thread has raised the blood pressure of a few, one or two to a dangerous level.

I'm on the app so I can't see the live blood pressure measurements from posters - can someone tell me how to view them?

@WithMyEncyclopedia It’s on the top left, just next to the edit button

I agree with you, yanbu. Chopping up 10 perfectly good wedding dresses to make 1 outfit is hardly entering into the spirit of it...

If she’d just worn a dress she already had it would have fitted the bill and no more. But now she has started a conversation, it’s got at least you talking and thinking about the whole situation. You won’t be the only one so I can’t see how it is a bad thing?