My everyday walk to work takes me through the High street in Lancaster. The street is lined by shops selling branded clothes. Each of them have a display window displaying , dressed up mannequins. Are these shops selling a dream or merely making us depressed.
You ask me why depressed?? Oh I promise, I have never ever been envious of any inanimate objects in my life to be termed as loony. But then why do I have this sudden desire to smash the display window and wring the necks of these wooden people ermmm... actually break it with an axe? Before you think I've gone totally mad... let me take some deep breaths...and continue
Next time you are out shopping...please do observe a mannequin. The slender figure, the perfect body...the perfect posture...no wonder any outfit looks amazing on it. The same dress will make you look like a sack of potatoes.
If you will see all about you, you will very rarely find women with the perfect curves. All of us have unwanted curves and the curves we have are all in the wrong place.
You will never find a mannequin with lumps and bumps like a living and breathing human. Also, in fashion shows the models are stick thin and we cannot look like her/him in reality. Have you ever seen a mannequin which might resemble an actual human perhaps??
Even after purchasing an outfit...one always feels dissatisfied after seeing the same dress draped on a mannequin. There is always that singular hope of looking as good in reality. The shops do mislead us into believing that a particular dress draped on a mannequin will look equally good on us too.
P.S: This is a out and out rant. People with model/ mannequin like figures please, do not get offended.
Oh my god! I have to add my 2
Oh my god! I have to add my 2 cents, In India most of the time the size that fits the mannequins is the only size that is available! how stupid is that! thank god in usa, life is easier when it comes to sizes ...it comes from size zero to 3x:-)
Alice
Very True!
I so agree with you on this one! When I walk into a mall all I see in the shops are stick-thin mannequins dressed in equally slim clothes. It becomes offensive at times. Do these shopkeepers actually think that if you are not a size zero, you don't deserve to live, let alone wear fashionable clothes? And how many of the women out there are actually as slim as the mannequins on display? No wonder those clothes either do not fit us or look horrible, because 99% of real women do not have a size zero figure. I think after fashion companies have stopped getting size zero models for their fashion shows, it is high time that shopkeepers make clothes for the majority of women- it is time for them to come out of their dreamy slumber and make clothes for real women in the real world.
Dipanwita Das Gupta