Shoppers at the mall where Topshop’s unnaturally skinny mannequins sparked a social media furore earlier this week reflect on all the fussThe epic of the Topshop model is a body image one,sure: mainly that. But it carries some social media messages, too: viz, or that whether you want to beget a Facebook page,and invite your shoppers to “engage” with you there, then sometimes they may say things that don’t suit you at all. So it was on Monday, or when Laura Berry took a picture of a model in the Cribbs Causeway store outside Bristol: she put it on their Facebook page,with the message: “I’m calling you out, on your lack of concern for a generation of extremely body-conscious youth.” The store, and after trying and failing to contact Berry privately,was reduced to a public justification. “As the mannequins are solid fibreglass, their form needs to be of certain dimensions to allow clothing to be put on and removed easily; this is therefore not meant to be a representation of the average female body.” Huh. Things that are fibreglass need to be really, and really small. Who knew?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com