Models

I have to say that those hunched, grumpy looking models put me off buying the clothes. I suppose it’s a generational thing. Hopefully the pendulum will swing shortly and they’ll be able to smile.

Guess it’s a generational thing I got a Damart catalogue through the post yesterday and they are all smiling
I have a distant relatives daughter, young teen modelling and she has all the awful grumpy scowling poses no idea if she even has teeth never seen her smile at all looks so angry and unhappy always I m sure she’s not as she’s making a lot of money been doing it since she was in junior school

why do they never smile
The model is supposed to be a blank canvas for the clothes.
The reason being that if a model was smiling it would take away focus on the clothes.

It's not just grumpy models that put me off clothes. So many catalogues feature "celebrities" as models and who recommend certain clothes - I wouldn't buy those on principle (unless they were exactly what I needed). Why should I copy what some woman from a television programme wears?

I hate it when you are trying to see an item of clothes and the picture shows them in a sitting scrunched up pose 🙄

I suppose it’s ‘fashion’. I do get irritated with too many of the really sulky/grumpy expressions of the models on a couple of company websites I use. Maybe actual ‘smiling’ isn’t wanted, but I’d have thought a pleasant, neutral expression would do?
Evidently not!

I'd be more encouraged to try on and even buy the clothes if the model looked like she was actually happy to be wearing them, rather than scowling like a grumpy teenager!

I said as much in a review to M&S once, don't think they've taken any notice 😂

I think it's to do with attitude and fashion models seem to like the aloof, arrogant look. The other side of the coin were Page 3 type models who were encouraged to smile all the time, prove how ordinary they were by marrying a plumber, and act as role models to working class girls. I'd much rather share a flight with someone like Samantha Fox than Naomi Campbell.

The models do not do anything. They are told what to do. It is the photographers and fashion editors who should be asked why they want the models to pose as they do, not the models themselves they just do as they are told.

Anyone remember a fashion show hosted by Vivienne Westwood where a model had to wear a pair of platform boots whose heels were so high, the model fell over? I sometimes think the models have to model some really awful clothing and footwear no one would really buy.

I remember Vivienne Westwood appearing on Wogan with her latest designs; the audience roared with laughter and she was very offended.

Cumbrianmale56

Anyone remember a fashion show hosted by Vivienne Westwood where a model had to wear a pair of platform boots whose heels were so high, the model fell over? I sometimes think the models have to model some really awful clothing and footwear no one would really buy.

The purpose of fashion shows has changed, Once it was to show the styles for the following season and this applied from ordinary fashion shows by manufacturers to the top couturier houses in Paris.

Now the cost of a courturier dress is so high only the wives of vicious dictators and billionaire oligarchs can afford them. Most couturiers these days make their money from their spin-offs; pret-a-porter, perfume, make-up etc. So the aim of their fashion shows is to attract the attention of the great and monied, celebs, and the fashion press, not to show wearable clothes, so clothes become more and more bizarre and the models look weirder and weirder.

The models do not do anything. They are told what to do.

Agree, M0nica.

I wonder if it's partly that we are not part of the demographic the clothes/models are (mostly) aimed at. All I ask of a model is to wear the clothes so I can see them.

I thought about this thread while we were out this morning. I watched a teenage girl walk through the shopping centre, absolutely no expression to her face, no liveliness about her. Then her phone rang, and she reanimated. Then she put her phone away and she slumped again, shoulders fell, face fell, arms just hanging. 'Maybe she's an M&S model' jumped into my brain. Maybe to her the sullen looking models make some sense.

I am also fed up of models either lying down or hunched up.
It’s impossible to see the garments properly.

M&S are guilty of this.

Quite agree VR3a

At least back in the 60s and 70s the models in the clothing catalogues looked as though they were healthy, happy to be modelling the clothes and you were able to see what the clothes actually looked like.

I know I'm old fashioned but I really dislike seeing models posed slouching with their legs spread wide apart.

WelshPoppy

At least back in the 60s and 70s the models in the clothing catalogues looked as though they were healthy, happy to be modelling the clothes and you were able to see what the clothes actually looked like.

but again, the models were only doing what they were told to do by photographers and fashion directors, they have no say in how they look and pose.

Bon Marche models show off upper garments with their long hair hanging down their backs so the garments' neckline sare invisible.

lizzypopbottle

I know I'm old fashioned but I really dislike seeing models posed slouching with their legs spread wide apart.

It does look odd even in this day and age. Maybe the pose is to demonstrate that the seems won't give way under extreme conditions.

seams