Object to Suit Supply which offers pornography along with its suits

[franch]

See Suit Supply - these images are displayed as posters in Suit Supply stores in the UK (including Westfield and Regent Street).

For more info and to object, visit this site.

[Maisiethemorningsidecat]

Although they would help to fuel the cremation - whoooosh!

[AppleTreeWick]

I have also complained to Westfield. I decided to go with suggesting they review contracts and explaining that shopping centres should be safe, women friendly environments...

[sunfunandmum]

'Erotic' adverts banned from London Westfield suit shop
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11797066

Well done everyone who complained.

I couldn't care less about this giving the company more publicity, who cares, the important thing is they've got to realise it's not acceptable to show images like this in this particular context.

[ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave]

I got the same response from Westfield; will be interesting to see if anything happens (although if they do take the posters down I will now feel morally obliged to actually go and do some shopping there, as I implied it was only the posters that prevented me and the DCs from descending on Westfield immediately and maxing out the credit card).

PMSL at "We are not religious or American"...

[ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave]

Hmm. Am not at all happy about "Suit Supply said it was in negotiation with Westfield about displaying censored versions of the posters."

It's not as though there are specific bits of the images that need to be blanked out with "CENSORED" stickers, much as SuitSupply would like to do that to look like a poor put-upon close-to-the-edge ultra-hip fashion retailer. It's the whole thing the poses, clothing, ambience and you'd need a bloody big "CENSORED" sticker to cover that.

[sethstarkaddersmum]

'Suit Supply founder Fokke de Jong has agreed to remove the posters but said: "We make no apology."'

Well you should, you arrogant arsehole!

[Beachcomber]

Sounds like he could do with having 'CENSORED' stamped on his forehead. What a git.

[JessinAvalon]

Anyone got Photoshop? They'd be so easy to parody with 'Sleazy Suits' and a few well placed speech bubbles - e.g. the one in the kitchen: "wish he'd bloody hurry up - I'm trying to finish my coffee here!"

I noticed in an article today that Playboy has been called 'artistic'. Call anything artistic and it seems to make it acceptable apparently.

[Maisiethemorningsidecat]

I was thinking the same thing, Jessin - it would be so easy (and funny)

My suggestion for the one where he's peering up her skirt - "By heck Mabel, how many days 'av you had these pants on now?"

[Sakura]

or

" I was enjoying myself but now some perv appears to have approached the stairwell. WOt is he doing with my skirt? Urgh "

[Sakura]

I'm actually a bit traumatised at how ugly one of the men is. Not that I want to objectify men, but he seems to look like a tramp. And yet.. the woman is absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. And the horrible thing is..it's not a parody or a joke.

[msrisotto]

^

He is the biggest minger around I reckon. Not about objectification, just a stark message of even the ugliest guys can have a pornified mannequin woman if he wears our suits!

[sethstarkaddersmum]

I think that's spot on MsRisotto. It's part of what makes it porn style; successful male porn actors are often ugly so ordinary men can identify with them more.

[Beachcomber]

What concerns me about this thing is the number of people who are unable to see how offensive and misogynistic it is.

On the internet there are lots of 'lighten up it's only a bit of nudity' type comments.

It really does seem that many people have become desensitised to this stuff and think it is normal and just a bit risqué because of the nudity level - they don't seem able to see the power dynamics.

Honestly can you imagine having to explain to a pre-teen or a teen what is going on in the skirt lifting pic?

Parent: "Well darling she's lying back passively in absolute ecstasy over a bloke in a nasty suit disinterestedly lifting her skirt to check out what's on offer between her legs."

Child : "Why does he look so contemptuous?"

Parent : "I blame the patriarchy darling".

[franch]

"Suit Supply said it was in negotiation with Westfield about displaying censored versions of the posters."

I agree with Professor, above.

I will be contacting Westfield to let them know that 'censored versions' will not be acceptable.

[Sakura]

rofl "He is the biggest minger around I reckon."

[fewcloudy]

These pics sound fantastic, where can I see them please?

I've got a great image of you lot, slobbed out on the sofa in front of your PC in your stained velour pink jogging suit, complaining how "minging" the models all are...

fc

[Sakura]

go and look at him fewcloudy,then come back and tell me he's fit. link at the top of the page

[Sakura]

sorry, shouldn't be so shallow. I just find it disgusting that they're basically saying any old tramp is worth more than a woman

[fewcloudy]

I did look at the models. They all (both male and female) look stunning to me. Is it the man that first appears, or the later one?

They do say beauty is in the eye of the beholder though...

[sethstarkaddersmum]

fewcloudy - you haven't read what's been written properly. The female models are all gorgeous, as is the other male one. The male model who has been used most (the 'hero' character if you like), creepy beardy long hair guy, gets to have the gorgeous women despite being less than an oil-painting himself.
(If you can find a post where someone has said the women models are minging I will eat my pink velour jogging suit.)

[Sakura]

can you imagine if it was the other way round. A Greek God of a man courting a smelly-looking tramp of a woman. There would most definitely be a "punchline" . Here, there isn't...

[sethstarkaddersmum]

no I can't Sakura, I'm trying really hard to imagine it but I simply cannot form a picture in my brain of the ugly women and gorgeous men - brain hurts - cannot escape conditioning even though am straining to do so - trying - trying - BANG!