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To think this photo is not appropriate to advertise a dress?

277 replies

TheGoodEnoughWife · 21/03/2025 18:49

Is it just my raging feminist thoughts with this photo that is being used as one of the pictures of a dress offered for sale on a high street store website. Is this appropriate? I don't think it is but one might say that that is my weird view and actually it is a perfectly okay pic? (!)
I think it looks like a 'come fuck me' picture and that is not okay?!

To think this photo is not appropriate to advertise a dress?
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TheHerboriste · 21/03/2025 18:50

Confused I think it looks like someone on a toilet.

Ineffable23 · 21/03/2025 18:50

I mean it mainly just looks very oddly proportioned. I don't think the photo itself is much of an issue though.

MemorableTrenchcoat · 21/03/2025 18:51

Come fuck me? That awkward, unflattering pose does not strike me as particularly alluring.

MissMoneyFairy · 21/03/2025 18:51

Her enormous feet are the first thing I noticed

ChompandaGrazia · 21/03/2025 18:52

It does nothing to advertise the dress, you can’t see the length or shape, but I don’t get the angst.

BurgundyZero · 21/03/2025 18:52

TheHerboriste · 21/03/2025 18:50

Confused I think it looks like someone on a toilet.

+1

QuestionableMouse · 21/03/2025 18:52

I think you're mad.

Thirteenblackcat · 21/03/2025 18:52

It’s not a good way to show off the dress is it?

my daughter said it looks likes she’s going for a wee

LadyKenya · 21/03/2025 18:53

I would have thought that it was the shoes that are being advertised.

MintTwirl · 21/03/2025 18:53

I like the shoes. I don’t find the picture inappropriate at all.

sweeneytoddsrazor · 21/03/2025 18:53

Snap @MissMoneyFairy

Ilovelowry · 21/03/2025 18:53

I think it looks great. And I like the outfit.

WTFFML · 21/03/2025 18:53

BurgundyZero · 21/03/2025 18:52

+1

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faerietales · 21/03/2025 18:53

I mean, it's not very flattering but it's hardly offensive Confused

TomatoSandwiches · 21/03/2025 18:54

I think you've lost your mind.

McQueensMuse · 21/03/2025 18:54

I don’t find the picture offensive.
It does remind me of how men sit on public transport though.

Chellybelle · 21/03/2025 18:54

It doesn't look sexual in the slightest to me. A woman sitting with her legs slightly open doesn't mean they want sex, you know. I actually find you anti feminist to assume that.

Poppyseeds79 · 21/03/2025 18:55

Proportions look so off... Besides that it's fine

Anotherparkingthread · 21/03/2025 18:55

Surely it says more about you than the product/company if you're actively looking for issues on something so trivial and mundane.

Her feet look massive tho lol

Llamasarellovely · 21/03/2025 18:56

Thirteenblackcat · 21/03/2025 18:52

It’s not a good way to show off the dress is it?

my daughter said it looks likes she’s going for a wee

Edited

Immediately underneath this post MN chose to advertise something for weak bladder control.
😀

ThePoliteLion · 21/03/2025 18:56

I’m with you OP. I don’t like it.

Sassybooklover · 21/03/2025 18:56

If the picture is advertising the dress, then it's doing a poor job! You can't see the shape, length or even any detail on the dress. As for the supposed 'come fuck me' pose, all I see is a weird angle, that makes the model look like she has unnaturally long legs and huge feet!! 🤷 There's nothing remotely sexy about the picture.

KrisAkabusi · 21/03/2025 18:57

She looks too grumpy to be selling something, but I can't see anything inappropriate about it.

sonjadog · 21/03/2025 18:57

The proportions are interesting as her feet look huge, but apart from that, I wouldn't think anything about it. I don't see a sexual side to it at all. "Man on public transport" is more like it, I reckon.

BendyLikeBeckham · 21/03/2025 18:58

I'm with you OP. It's trying to look raunchy which is ridiculously objectifying in this context, but somehow manages to look like 'depressed Emo lady on toilet with GIANT LEGS'