I recently ragged on Robin Givhan and here's a good example of why. First, WTF? Why give these creepazoids publicity? There's a lot going on in fashion. This shit is definitely NOT newsworth.
Second, she can't quite bring herself to admit that these are right-wing, whack-job, anti-woman, patriarchial fundies. Third, this article wanders all the fuck over the place and only finally, finally, at the very end, winds up anywhere at all.
In a just world, the world that I was "supposed" to be born into, I'd get to spend far more of my time on fashion and far less of it on Social Security reform, pollution, and corrupt government. Three words: Moon in Taurus.
But, really, fashion writing, just like any kind of writing, can be good or bad. D.C. happens to be cursed with a fashion writer who really can't write.
Anyway, here are the money quotes from this poorly-written half-hype, half-pan of an article:
*A person has to have strong convictions "to wear our suits," she says. If you have those convictions, "you're not going to care about the liberation." No shit.
*"I'm very surprised at the men who call because they don't want their wives and daughters running around in their underwear," Ferguson says. Surprised? No, you're not surprised. That's your fucking business plan, you partiarchial pawn.
*A woman swaddled in WholesomeWear's knee-length nylon would stand out. Not just because she's covered up but because she's done it in such an unattractive way. Perhaps she is modest or religious or simply someone who really needs to get over the fact she doesn't have legs like Naomi Campbell. [Please, Robin! You and I both know that's not who buys this shit!!! WTF?] But in looking at all that camouflaging fabric, at the layers aimed at obscuring the physique, one wonders how a swimsuit "ministry" can save anyone's soul when such ungainly suits have so little appreciation for beauty.
Took Robin all those words to say that?
2 comments:
If I could get the swimtank part of the swimsuit set, I'd buy it. I'm bountiful and I have thunder thighs, and they rub. But not both of those things together. No no no. It'd be hot hot hot.
However, they don't sell in bountiful women's sizes.
It does remind me of an episode from "Belles on their Toes," the sequel to the famous "Cheaper by the Dozen." One of the younger girls volunteered to wear Mom's old two piece swimdress (think 1910s vintage, the Gilbreath family was rather old fashioned) to save money, but she left off one of the pieces and scandalized her older sisters. But she did look cute.
Unfortunately the two parts of this suit are sewn together in such a fashion that removing one part is just not going to happen.
That article made me want to go out and buy a bikini, and wear it, atrophied and scarred unshaven legs, decadently furry bikini line, potbelly, and all. *grin*
Do these people think we're just going to, um, fall in line? Maybe that study about authoritarian personalities has some truth to it after all. Goodness knows it would otherwise serve as a tremendous example of confirmation bias...
Post a Comment