Beth Ditto: you are a dearheart, but we REALLY just don't need another celebrity designed 80s inspired line of clothing right now. I don't care that it's plus sized. We don't need it.
@LaComtesse: Can Beth Ditto make a line of totally sane, normal, cute, non-80s plus sized clothing instead? I was over the 80s 20 years ago and I am SO over it now that it's been back for a few years.
...Actually, if she made something 90s-inspired, I would probably singlehandedly keep her in business.
@AthertonMerriweather: They make some sleeky interesting-wash bootcut type ones nowadays - they're not all the tapered-leg Mom-jean Kmart staple anymore.
I've never found a single pair long enough for me, even the "long" sizes, so I'll have to sit this one out.
I clicked on the Glenn Close story expecting some awful outfit - but she looks great! I like the whole 'make do and mend' ethic - if there is a silver lining to the current economic readjustment, it's that more people will maybe start thinking like this, instead of mindlessly buying new stuff all the time.
A gold plated button cannot justify the price of a $990 pair of jeans. Not many people know this, but gold plating is about the cheapest thing you can do, MUCH cheaper than making something solid silver. it literally costs pennies. There better be a much better reason justifying that price tag, like denim was made with crushed-up unicorns in it or something.
That Hermes folding chair had better be able to cart me place to place, change my outfit, get me my soda a la Wall-E AND be made of rainbow essence and pure gold.
PETA is just so dumb. Is vandalizing a sidewalk really going to make people sit up and say, "You know what? Yes! Animal rights!"
Every stupid stunt they pull like this just dilutes their message even further and makes them--and everyone who cares about animal rights-look like insane people.
@hortense: Which is why I don't tell people I'm an animal rights activist. The logical jump in most people's mind is to PETA. In reality, my kind of animal rights is donating to Gorilla Protection, supporting the WWF, the Humane Society, and my local shelters, as well as campaigning for conservation worldwide since we are all living in one eco-system and threatening one species, threatens us all. Obviously PETA missed that memo ages ago.
@hortense: I know. Im very anti-fur, but when you try to discuss this with someone who may not be, they always bring up crazy shit that PETA has done to make me feel foolish. "so you think people who wear fur should get red paint thrown in their faces and (insert most recent PETA craziness here)???"
*sigh* like most things, the minority of radicals seems to speak for the majority of more-sane people in the public eye.
@EkaterinaBallerina: I'm with you. Every new item about PETA gives me a stomachache, both because I think they're bullshit and because I'm afraid of people thinking I condone that. I actually read this vegetarian magazine where Rory Freedman (puke) from Skinny Bitch (pukety puke) defended PETA's objectification of women for their cause and the next moth Carol J. Adams totally schooled her in the letters section and it was a tiny victory for animal loving feminists everywhere. I just wish they had given Adams equal time to write a counterpoint piece.
@hortense: Exactly, and what if Peta's not so secret agenda was to make the animal rights idea look even more stupid than stories of being kidnapped by gray aliens? They're provocateurs, and their main contributors are probably the meat packing companies and the fur industry.
Can I just say that EVERYONE sells SOMETHING. I mean, I get that Dove is owned by Uniliver who sells skin-lightening cream in Indian and African and OMG that's horrible! but it shouldn't negate any good efforts on their part. Everyone is behold to some corporate god, even Jez. Or am I the only one who noticed Jez rails against unrealistic body images while being sponsored by Crunch Fitness?
Yesterday I was so put out with some of the comments that have been cropping up on Jezebel lately. I decided last night that I was DONE and not coming back. The ageism and (sometimes reverse) sexism that I've been seeing have disappointed me terribly.
But then I read every one of these comments and decided that, in fact, Jezebels really are the most amazing crop of people on the internets and that it's a gift that y'all are all out there.
Keep up the positivity and seeing beauty in everyone. That's what makes me teary-eyed- not a Dove commercial but the generous spirits of so many of YOU.
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...Actually, if she made something 90s-inspired, I would probably singlehandedly keep her in business.
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I've never found a single pair long enough for me, even the "long" sizes, so I'll have to sit this one out.
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Yes, I am a closet Communist.
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Ahem, Jezebel, I believe the worst ad ever was the "naked woman being strangled on a car hood implores you to buy our suits" ad.
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Every stupid stunt they pull like this just dilutes their message even further and makes them--and everyone who cares about animal rights-look like insane people.
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Actually, considering the level of most of their rhetoric, I'm surprised that label "skin slut" hasn't been thrown at leather-wearing celebs yet.
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*sigh* like most things, the minority of radicals seems to speak for the majority of more-sane people in the public eye.
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But then I read every one of these comments and decided that, in fact, Jezebels really are the most amazing crop of people on the internets and that it's a gift that y'all are all out there.
Keep up the positivity and seeing beauty in everyone. That's what makes me teary-eyed- not a Dove commercial but the generous spirits of so many of YOU.