Does anyone else feel disenfranchised by models?

yes, i just hope the cartoon man doesn't go for 500 miles after taking viagra

I didn't know that.
Which song? 500 miles?

I do wonder though if the proclaimers knew their best selling record would be copied and used on a viagra advert

I want to look like a grown up woman.
Stretch marks, scars, the lot!
That is being what living life does to people.

If the models were of the short dumpy variety or with wrinkled skin the clothes would not look so good and not tempt you to buy them.We know that we will not look like the models but we want to, we do not want to look like the old dumpy wrinkled women that we can see in the mirror.

On tv, ads now show all shapes and sizes, mastectomy scars, vitiligo, old, young, and prosthetic limbs.
We've come an awful long way, I think.

I think the same when I see adverts on tv for moisturisers.
Stunning young women with not a wrinkle in sight. Are we meant to believe these are older women looking younger because of these products?

Absolutely right merlotgran. I would find a catalogue full of overweight ageing ladies pretty depressing. If I want to see that I only need to look in the mirror.

It doesn’t bother me and doesn’t put me off buying clothes.

If I see something I like and can afford on a young, skinny model I can work out for myself whether or not it would suit me.

An overweight ageing model with grey hair would not exactly make me feel young at heart and aren’t stylish clothes supposed to make us feel happy and confident?

There are quite a lot of older models with grey hair. They tend to be slim, which shows the clothes off to best advantage. Why would I feel ‘disenfranchised’ because they’re slim? I accept that I’ve put on weight but have no desire to see a load of fat models.

I see many older women as models. None of them are five foot nothing, round with not much hair so I suppose I could be disenfranchised ?

Yes! Even when the clothes are aimed at people our age the model is in her 30s.

There are now lots of models who are older and wider now, especially in clothes catalogues.