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?!

I mean, it's not screaming "Buy me".

She looks like she escaped from a unit.

So androgynous or masculine looking women are no longer acceptable are they?

Completely inappropriate to use men to advertise women’s clothing, yes. He has feet like yachts!

Are we sure it’s a man?? I’m usually very good at spotting even the most ‘convincing’ ones!

Something is way off! This was meant obviously for attention or point or to test males as pervs? Possibilities are endless. Regardless she is a lady and lime all deserves respect. But if this lady came and sat in front of me like that I will assume....lil too comfortable?

It's an odd angle. Her legs look crazy long in her feet look huge. I don't really think it looks particularly sexual though.

I don't think it looks remotely "come hither" and it's just not a flattering photo at all. Plus, I like to see how the clothes hang, I don't like photos when the models are sitting and clothes are scrunched up. So from that perspective it's not great as an advert either.

The point is most British women aren't extremely tall and angular. It's got nothing to do with it being 'acceptable', it's just this odd way that fashion houses create and cut clothes for figures that don't reflect the majority of women, then defends using models like this because 'the clothes look better on them.' I think the whole process is misogynistic and has been for a while, long before the use of trans models.

It’s despicable isn’t it. The comments on this thread- just go to show.

Models have always been extremely tall and angular but they haven’t’t been accused of being men until now.

it’s an anti advertisement to me 😬

What an awful picture! But to my mind it certainly does not suggest “come fuck me”, far from it. More like “l am really pissed off and want to go home.

I can’t help but think she used to be a he. That would explain a lot but I don’t think that pose says take me to bed. I think it says stay the fuck away from me or ill boot you with my size 12’s

No it doesn’t

It’s not a great angle and makes the model’s legs look disproportionate to the rest of their body.
it doesn’t show the dress off at all, though assume it’s one of a series of different angles.

i don’t think it looks overly sexual, no.

I think it’s meant to be more “relaxed” than “come fuck me” but it’s a crap picture to advertise the dress. I hate it when companies provide posed pictures where you can’t even see what the clothes look like!

I love the shoe. Gimme the shoes.

But you are saying that. You described the pose as a ‘come fuck me’.

Women try and sit with their legs closed because a sexist society branded it as ‘unlady-like’. By saying women sat with their legs open are automatically saying ‘come fuck me’ you are upholding the ‘it’s not lady-like’ stance and saying women who don’t sit with their knees together are communicating ‘come fuck me’ to the whole world.

You can hold any opinion you want. But other people can point it that it’s not a ‘raging feminist’ point of view, neither is ‘sitting with out your legs closed is saying come fuck me’ and comes across as quite the opposite.

When I am at home and relaxed my legs are not clamped together, my muscles relax and my knees part. If I'm on a train then I either cross my legs or make a conscious effort to keep my knees together.

It just looks like a young woman relaxing and sitting the way she wants to
I don't think there is the slightest thing offensive about it.

I do when I'm at home. And why shouldn't women sit with their legs open?

There is nothing wrong with big feet, my mum has size 9s and always looks great but they do insist on putting the models in the most unflattering shoes and posing them feet first so they look like clown shoes.
Mary Jane ballet flats suck on anyone that isn't 12 years old.

This true. We have to remember that models are chosen to show off clothes. So they are traditionally women who have fairly indistinct shapes. The designers want them to look like a human hanger basically.

I think it’s because it’s a fairly recent practice for advertisers to quietly slip models that are not female into the female clothing sections. Possibly so they can triumphantly claim that trans ppl have been advertising women’s clothing for ‘ages’ and imply that our objection to that is recent and therefore unacceptable (the oft repeated refrain).

An alternative possibility is that male models were often paid less (I don’t know if that’s still the case) so maybe it’s cheaper to use them than women?

IMO this model just looks a bit fed up and grumpy and doesn’t make me want to buy the dress.

I can’t say that big footed man spreading types inspire me to buy their shitty denim dress.