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

[TheGoodEnoughWife]

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?!

It just looks awful. Much like most of the 'high street' fashion in this country, which is an embarrassment.

I did not think as the OP did about its suitability.

It doesn't show off the dress or the model to the best advantage, but I don't think it's sexual. Models (or many of them) have been adopting slouching or otherwise unflattering poses for decades, though, so that's nothing new. Not as sure about the positioning of the legs.

Sorry WTAF. So you are gender shaming this woman now for not looking/ posing fem enough? With her legs crossed like a proper lady and all? This is what your intolerance for trans people has driven you to?

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What a weird bad photo. The forced perspective making her legs so massive isn’t flattering at all, and it doesn’t show off any of the clothes particularly well - doesn’t strike me as inappropriate though. Just a bit weird. When I studied photography and worked in the studio you’d get a bollocking from the lecturer for that kind of angle (when doing product photos/styling clothes, rather than artsy nonsense where it can work).

I remember being admonished by a teacher when I was like 10 for not “sitting like a lady” in front of the whole class. I felt so small and ashamed.
Women and girls can sit however the fuck they like. it’s comfortable to sit like that- hence men do it and anyone perpetuating the idea that it’s wrong, weird or provocative for a women to do the same can honestly go do one.

It's all about the model and not the dress, which you can't see properly because she's sitting down. Terrible photo. Hope there are more showing the dress?

I don't agree with 'inappropriate' but the picture itself is just weird ~ her knees to ankles are longer than her body and her feet are as long as her hands to her elbows .

So out of proportion that I didn't really notice what she's wearing .

Don't go on the Zara site, you'll have a heart attack

I have quite small feet (4) so I could never pull off that look.

To be fair I was looking at the Zara site last year and I found it really hard to see how a blouse or shirt would look actually done up. Most had one or two buttons, not always correctly!, done up and a lot of flesh on show. Not how I dress in public.

Looks like me womanspreading on the tube to hold my space.

@TheGoodEnoughWife I agree it’s an unusual and certainly sexual pose.

Not necessarily unacceptably sexual. She appears comfortable and unapologetic about her sexuality. She’s not necessarily catering for the male gaze.

Men are also often sexualised to sell clothes (modelling jeans with a bare chest and sexual pose etc). So, it’s not necessarily sexist. Fashion and sexuality are closely intertwined.

But the problem is sexualised women have been used to flog everything from alcohol through to cars. It can at very least be tiresomely unnecessary. At worst, offensive.

The same pose would look stronger if she was sitting upright rather than laid back.

I think it looks like a rather unconvincing cross-dresser. Graceless, not sexy in the least.

There's nothing provocative about the image. Yes, she''s sitting with her legs ope, but they're hardly spread wide, nor can you see her inner thighs or even her knickers.

It's an awkwardly posted and pretty terrible picture, that's for certain, but provocative and come fuck me? No.

I think the photographer needs sacking........dreadful perspective!

I know some advertising for clothing definitely falls into the category you mention but this dress and pose just looks boring and really frumpy to me.

It's horrible! Alluring is the last word I'd use to describe it.

Surely better than the Seasalt 'Dress for joy' advert on Mumsnet with the woman who looks like she is contemplating death or something.

Nothing is wrong with big feet.

But the feet in this picture are funny. The angle of the feet makes them look completely out of proportion to the rest of her body. As someone else said, the feet are bigger than her head!

You must see this?

It's a pig-ugly dress, bit that pose makes her feet look like she's wearing clown shoes. No wonder she looks so miserable.

I have those shoes and they’re very nice. Not clown like, 😁

Has there been a link for the shoes?

@BeachRide I don't know. It's not the feet or anything really it's just the face, I think it's a man, I can't prove it but just that's my take.

And it's not "gender shaming" whatever the fuck that might be, I'm not passing comment positive or negative about that fact that it's a man or Tran woman posing as a woman, I just think that is the fact of it, not a moral stance, just my observation

She's got feet like submarines

Is this the first time you've noticed the use of sexually provocative angles to sell clothes? Serious question.

That bloke seems to be everywhere at the moment.