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Thumper
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 04, 2003 - 06:23 pm: | 
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Hello All,
I'm reading Why Sleeping Dogs LIE by Tracie Howard. Why I didn't let this one lie on my desk UNOPENED, should be the question. But anyway, Howard is dropping designers names left and right in the book. It caused my mind to drift (which is the kiss of death for any book that I'm reading when I start thinking of something else. Shouldn't that fall in the same category with making love to one person and fantasizing that it's someone else? *eyebrow raised*) to really think about why so many authors used the "designer clothes" thang and why they shouldn't do it.
1.) Let me be honest, I don't know 95% of these names that the authors are dropping. I don't.
2.) Isn't it kinda of chintzy to simple say, "she was wearing a black Calvin Klein evening dress"? Think about it, that's not really telling you anything about what the dress actually looks like. Not all Calvin Klein dresses look alike, black or otherwise. If it did, he couldn't stay in business.
3.) Shouldn't these authors tell you what year the dress came out in? Why should we assume that these clothes are this year models? Is the dress from Calvin Klein's fall collection or is it from his spring collection? Or did it come from his last year's collection? Because I dare say that not every year does he come out with a dress in the color black.
3.) If the characters that is wearing this designer crap, what do they do with last year's edition? I haven't heard of a disposal plan or anything. Does last year's clothes go to Goodwill, or the Salvation Army? Or do the characters send the clothes to their relatives down South who don't know any better?
4.) And where do these characters buy their clothes from? I don't ever hear how they obtain them, just that they have them.
5.) And if these authors really want to impress us, why not include the price tag. Why not say, "and she wore her $5000 Calvin Klein black evening dress", you see what I'm sayin'?
6.) And frankly, yes, I'm going to go there, these designers don't really make clothes that are modeled for the black female figure, or any woman that eats and don't have an eating disorder. That's right, I'm talking about da booty! The sista girl that has a full figure! Because, baby, only a dog wants a bone! The only people who don't like a full figure sista, is women who ain't got it and can't get it; men who can't get it but want it; and men who can get it, but can't hold on to it. I'm just telling you what God loves, OK! So I know, those clothes have to be altered. Or am I to assume that the black female characters: Torneisha, Lakeisha, and Ki Ki, in these books don't have da booty? *eyebrow raised*
Don't shoot me or anything, but I really got to thinking about this and if I'm wrong, let me know. *LOL* |
Crystal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 04, 2003 - 07:16 pm: |
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No answers for you … just commiserating … and laughing!
Crystal, one of those full figure sista-girls. |
sisgal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 09:19 am: |
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Thumper....you bordering on being bootyracist...not all black women are so endowed, not flat, not bones (bc even thoses boney women can still boast a big butt..ie my cuz CC), just like the men, we are cut in various shapes and by the way full-figure comes in many shapes as well.. |
Thumper
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 12:25 pm: |
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Hello All,
Sisgal: I dare say, its not me that's a bootyracist, but all of these authors that insist on having their charcters wear designer clothes that are only designed for a particular shape woman. Let's be real for a minute, there a reason why all of the fashion shows for these designer look like an aneroxic 12 year old boy. When Calvin Klein reveals his next season collection, have a look at the models on the runway. Will the models be shaped like you, or any other woman you know? *eyebrow raised* Those clothes hang, and hug those models body to achieve the look that the designer created that look for. And if that's the shape and size the designer feels optimize his vision, what does that say about the black female characters in these books that wears nothing but these designer clothes. The characters can only have 1 shape, 1 size right? *eyebrow raised* What does that say about these authors that constantly parade these designer clothes wearing folks in front of people that don't have the shape to wear a black Calvin Klein evening dress? And another thing, I was talking to Linda about this last night and the point came up with was, why are these authors promoting these designers in their books when the authors aren't getting any benefits from doing it? |
sisgal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 03:10 pm: |
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Okay, I get it...evidently those designer wearing sisters are getting their clothes from the Chop shop (ie..FUBLU, Calvin Klan, Donna Karene) made especially for the black woman. Now this is some real truth, so it seems to me that these authors are not depicting a realistic picture, cuz not too many sisters gonna lay out $2K-5K or even $500 for a dress that don't fit, more like $50 for the designer rip off...now thats real. (OKAY SOME OF US DO SHOP THE CLEARANCE SALES AT VERSACE, etc.. but even then we only pay min price, and you are right about the size of those clothes, most are TOO SMALL!
Clever deduction, I just never thought of that. |
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