{"id":326,"date":"2012-10-21T19:09:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T19:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2012-12-17T00:40:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T00:40:23","slug":"youre-doing-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"You’re Doing it Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across this this morning:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An article on yahoo about people who think that their jobs make the world a worse place. (Topping the list percentage-wise was fast food workers; yes, they know.)<\/p>\n

Who said fashion designers had to hurt people’s body image? You’re doing it wrong. Clothes, done right, should help people feel better about how they look. Yeah, I know, a lot of fashion designers don’t see it that way. Watching Project Runway challenges in which the designers have to make something nice for a “real person” (cause skinny people aren’t really people, right?), they whine in the sewing room, and half the time they come up with something that would only be flattering on a thin person and apparently decide it just doesn’t matter how someone over size 8 looks in their clothes.<\/p>\n

It’s easier to sew for the “ideal” body shape because if you put a burlap sack on a beautiful girl, she makes the burlap sack look beautiful, too. That’s why fashion shows can get away with outfits that look straight out of Zoolander<\/em>‘s Derelicte show. I knew a fashion student once who complained about how expensive it was to make the outfits for her classes; she was buying yards and yards of gorgeous $12\/yd fabrics. I directed her to the discount table where things could go for $1-2\/yd. “Yeah, but this is prettier.”<\/p>\n

I always think of the line in Just Shoot Me<\/em>, where the photographer is going on about how good of a job he does on the photos and David Spade’s character says, “Oh, yeah – you’re a genius. You took a picture of one of the hottest women in the world and somehow made her look beautiful. What’s your secret – are you using some kind of film?”<\/p>\n

Just about anyone with a sewing machine can make expensive fabric look at least passable. Just about anyone with a size 8 knockout can make her look great. Fashion designers who think they’re making the world a worse place are just stuck being lazy. Go into Lane Bryant and make something that doesn’t look horrifying. Millions of women’s lives and self-images will be better for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across this this morning: An article on yahoo about people who think that their jobs make the world a worse place. (Topping the list percentage-wise was fast food workers; yes, they know.) Who said fashion designers had to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[13,15,16],"tags":[59,61,64,63,62,20,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}