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?!

Looks like they are sitting like that because of a nasty dose of summat down below….again a rather negative connotation and another reason not to buy the shitty denim dress.

Just had a quick Google on averages - the average British woman is 5'4-5'5, wears a size 14-16, has a 36DD bust and wears a size six shoe. There aren't many female models who reflect that really. I do find it odd that the fashion industry continues to use flat chested, narrow hipped, very tall models within mainstream markets. It makes so little sense. Why not design the clothes to flatter more average figures?

I noticed a while back that models on women's clothing websites frequently resemble escapees from Victorian lunatic asylums, with their hair, facial expressions and poses. Goodness knows how this is meant to entice anyone to want to buy the garments. 🤷‍♀️

I wasn’t really paying attention at first but if you open the picture and zoom in to look at his hands, face, and neck it’s more obvious.

So now we've gone from the photo being seen as a (definitely not!) "provocative" pose, to the model being having huge feet, then to her being a man?!
The word unhinged was used earlier, but I don't think that's just the OP on this thread!

It's a shit dress, with an androgynous looking woman, in a very badly posed photograph! Nothing more to it!
Must be a fucking slow weekend somewhere in the country! MN definitely needs a bloody eye roll emoji!

That's a transwoman, surely. Those are not how a woman's legs look. Nor feet.

You understand that models are often above average in height, and taller people have bigger feet, right?

And also that you can take rather odd photos if you use strange angles and different lenses... yeah?

I don't see anything that indicates this model is not a woman.

It tells me the photographer should get a new job.

Frankly I like photos of clothing that show me what I'm buying not someone's mistaken idea of something artistic.

@Shitmonger your user name says it all! Step away from the Mail Online & get outside more (ideally while observing the rich variety of womanhood still born with an XX makeup!)

I should be a model, those are my exact proportions 😁Im too old though.

It looks to me like the ‘dress’ is actually a shapeless tent and the only way they can make it look interesting is to scrunch it around the model in this disturbingly toilet style pose. It’s not at all sexual, unless you consider a woman sitting with her knees not pressed together to be a come-on.

The fact that you thought it was such a graphic sexual picture says more about where your mind is. Disturbing how your mind actually went there

I see a badly composed photo of a not very good dress and shoes you could probably sail round the world in.

This 👆

Poor photography, unless they especially wanted her feet to look as big as boats.

She looks like she's sat on the lav.

Ohy God what is it like to be you?! 😁 How on earth did you get that from that picture lol

When looking to buy a dress I don't care what it looks like on someone on the toilet, I want to see what it looks like on some standing up.

I think they could have chosen a more flattering pose and a more cheerful model. While they're at it don't even advertise a "dress" that looks like a rag from a thrift shop.

Just what l thought.

The perspective is completely weird and I have no idea why M&S thought this would help sell the dress (or shoes which feature more prominently). If this women was to scale, her feet are twice the size of her head - dysmorphic!

You seem to have a problem understanding camera angles.

Me too 😂

I don't see it as sexually provocative. These weird poses and perspectives which actively hide the clothes seem to be on trend in fashion advertising. Bizarre.

They look out of proportion because of the way the photo was taken.