AMERICANS CHOICE AWARDS ¬¬
Did chloe really just win
I ask myself this question ALL THE TIME!
Because fashion trends progress, evolve and shift (hem hem, don’t forget Chanel was responsible for the mini-skirt), not to mention the attitudes enshrining women’s fashion, presentation, bodies and freedom of expression. Neither are superior, they’re just different.
I prefer vintage fashion too, but I’m not going to take a photo of 3 very pretty girls (total strangers to me besides) who are clearly having a good time together as friends - I mean, it’s not even a model shoot, it’s someone’s private photo that some asshole has picked up somewhere and slapped some text over - and imply that there’s something wrong with them because they’re dressed in modern-styled clothes & are styled in a contemporary fashion.
Sooooooo bored and sick of the ‘women had more class in the olden days’ rhetoric (it’s not true. They dressed and groomed to the times. Women still smoked, drank, swore, fucked, backstabbed, bickered, cheated & anything that suggests they didn’t was a carefully constructed Hollywood fantasy).
So bored and sick of the overvaluing of notions of ‘class’ trap full-stop. Just another set of ideas designed to trap women and hold us hostage to constantly pleasing another instead of ourselves.
This reminds me of a similar macro which has a super-glam studio shot of Marilyn on one side and a candid social photo of a modern girl on the other looking a little worse for wear (is it Snooki? Can’t remember) with the same caption…
… it’s such a joke. I idolise Marilyn, but the women didn’t spend her life as a frozen-fully-made-up-glamour photo. She also boozed and took a LOT of drugs. And she was promiscuous. None of that is a big deal, in my opinion - except that, like these women of the 1940s above, she is being used as a paragon of ‘class’ and ‘modesty’ and ‘virtue’ against modern girls. And actually, she was as fallible and human - and even as TRASHY and boozy and CHEAP - as any girl today.
This isn’t even about fashion, this little ‘comparisons’ that get floated around the web. In the end, this is, once again, about shaming women for not behaving. For all we know, those modern girls are virgins who only drink soda and those 1940s dames are high on coke and off to an orgy. But who cares when they look so ‘classy’ and so therefore can be used to shame every girl today for not knowing her place, right?
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