Am I being prudish, or do I have a point?

[AmIJustAPrude]

NC for this.

I've just sent the following email to a company I ordered underwear from:

I've just received my order confirmation and was quite shocked by the accompanying image. I don't want to screenshot it to resend, so hopefully you can work out the image I mean: it is of two women/girls lying on their fronts outside wearing black pants.

The woman (I hope) or girl on the left is very thin, which immediately made me assume she was a teenager. One of her breasts is clearly visible.

I'm not prudish about breasts at all, but it made me extremely uncomfortable to receive an image of what appears to be an almost-naked teenage girl. Given you also sell bras, it seems totally unnecessary for her to be completely topless.

I recommend you review the images you send out to your customers, as this has put me off using your company again.

As I say, I don't have an issue with breasts- I've breastfed in public many a time. It was mainly the fact that, based on her body shape, the woman/girl in the photo looks very young (post-pubescent, but pre-adult) and the exposed breast was completely unnecessary.

So what do you think: did I overreact?

Agree
As soon as I looked I thought that’s not a boob, that’s an elbow.
I do love this thread though and your artwork OP.
👏

I said that if I were accused of inappropriate behaviour with a pupil, the police would look at my phone, hence why I didn't want to screenshot the image when I thought the elbow was a breast. (I can't believe I just had to type that last bit...)

So what? They were see the picture is from an email confirmation. There's no explicit images on your phone? It's a very ODD statement to make.

It’s true and Im happy you’re having a laugh. In fact I mentioned the CrossFit on a weight loss thread early this morning with regards to BMI not taking a persons muscle mass into consideration when doing the calculation.

In the meantime Ive been away for a 5km walk in the glorious sunshine with just the right amount of a cold breeze and I’ve had quite the laugh on my travels as well at this thread - the elboob (amongst other things).

She's clearly anywhere from mid twenties to early thirties!

So funny!😂😂

I'm looking forward to the reply from the company.

I've heard of not being able to tell an arse from an elbow before but never a boob from an elbow!

Thanks for the artwork @AmIJustAPrude I am hooting. Terrible (fortunately remote) day at work so I needed that 🫣😂

wtf is this rambling nonsense
a) she's not "half the height" of the other model. She's a few inches shorter at most, not 2foot8.
b) Even if she was short (I think she's definitely over 5 foot), short women are still adults!
c) why can't (slightly) larger women be photographed next to smaller ones? Are all your friends and family exactly the same size as you? Presumably as it's a company selling lingerie, the aim is to show that their products fit women of different sizes, therefore having two models exactly the same shape would defeat the point...
d) wtf are "Nappies?"
e) if you mean her breasts, you can't actually see them, if you'd read the whole thread, or even just OP's updates you would see that what OP thought was a boob was an ELBOW

I'd be changing my username frequently too if this was the kind of rubbish I spouted....

I wouldn’t have looked at that and associated it with teenagers.

Stripe and Stare are a British company, but they market and sell internationally, including in countries where that body type is the average one. Unsurprisingly, they’re going to want to appeal to the widest market of potential customers, and will feature slim, ‘skinny’ women as models as well.

The woman (I hope) or girl on the left is very thin, which immediately made me assume she was a teenager. One of her breasts is clearly visible.

So to clarify…

She isn’t very thin (just a slim model)
She isn’t a teenager (looks in her 30s)
One of her breasts ISN’T clearly visible.

But apart from all that, you were bang on the money OP.

I’m howling at this.

This is so funny 🤣🤣🤣

I read a few pages of comments and saw the offending pic - knew immediately it was an elbow! Why would her nip be up there?!

Thank you for brightening up an otherwise dull Wednesday @AmIJustAPrude 🤣🤣🤣

Cannot believe you emailed to complain too 🤣

This thread has made my (sick) day, as I’m lying in my tatty dressing gown 🤣 Thank you OP for your service! 🫡

I think she is the one working for the company.

I'm in my 60s and think you have too much time on your hands - even if it hadn't been an elbow!!!

Please tell us what they said when you apologised. It sounds like your intentions were good. I don't know if you realise the screenshot has your first name in, if you want to hide under a rock about this forever 😁

Well OP, you’ve made a right tit of yourself but have made a lot of people laugh, I’d say that’s win for today!

PLEASE let us know if the company replies 😂

Delighted by this thread, the diagram, and the revelation it's an elbow. Wonderful.

I'm now browsing their lovely pjs, damn you.

YANBU, and well done for sending that response.
As a side note, nothing wrong with being a prude: I consider myself to be one, and carry my prudeness around very comfortably.

Are you offended by the sight of naked elbows then?

I think I understand your point. They are sexualising underwear which doesn’t need to happen. She could have had a bra on. Well done for bringing it to their attention.

Based on?

I'm not judging her, I'm judging the company for sharing a photo of her wearing only pants without including her face.

It's an underwear company. Do you expect every single picture to include the model's face?

YANBU and I think more people should feel free to come out as unapologetically prudish.

We should all be advocating for dignity and less gratuitous female nudity in advertising and media generally. It’s brandished like it’s the norm for women to go cavorting in their knickers whilst simultaneously shaving their nethers or getting off on orgasmic moisturising etc. It’s bollocks. Most of the real women I know at this time of year are in several layers of whatever is warm and comfy day and night.

Star and stripe knickers are shit anyway. Nice looking and marketed cleverly but overpriced cheap fabric.