I really do not understand the concept of "coffee table books". How often do you really have someone sitting on your couch with nothing to entertain them? And isn't that what tv is for? And how do you fit the book on the table around the half full mugs and discarded notebooks and post-its and the books you're actually reading and don't have a shelf for?
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@colormeroutine: You also use them to prove how smart and well read you are. I personally like to leave graphic novels and Harlequin Romances there. I find it really brings the room together.
@colormeroutine: Oh. I've been plonking my mugs of tea straight down on top of the books on handmade Turkish kilims and the great trout fishing lodges of North America. Also, I notice now that there is a forgotten bowl of two-week-old grapes sitting on top of an interesting volume of photographs of Angkor Wat, and a handful of manky tissues lodged behind the dust cover. I am living in filthy squalor. I do not deserve nice things. I do not deserve naked Heidi.
I conclude that coffee table books bring nothing but shame and sadness.
@Harlot Brontë: Obviously, you have never seen the coffee table book about coffee tables. With legs that can fold out so it can act as a... coffee table!
"and revealing one underaged nip"
Did they prove she is "underaged"? Appearing to be under 16 and BEING under 16 are two very different things.
As "sleazy" as AA is, at least they don't use sweatshop labor? They certainly aren't the only store to use sexually provocative ads, and they have much better practices than most places.
@greengrey: 'Better practices than most places' doesn't quite excuse sexually harassing employees (or reporters, for that matter). Pretty rampant. Sure it's a bit of an ethical conundrum, but is it too much to dream of a company that doesn't use slave labor AND doesn't make them pay for their green cards with blow jobs?
@HeatherNumber1: Yeah, it'd be great if there were companies that were totally ethical, but I just don't understand the anger directed at AA when other stores are arguably worse.
I'd rather shop at AA than urban outfitters. I don't know why people consider AA worse than UO.
But the only articles on Jez about UO or anthropologie are pictures from their catalog, and we ignore the awful shit their chairman pulls. Why is AA constantly attacked, but stores with worse practices are left alone?
@greengrey: I think part of it is because American Apparel's whole platform when it started was "buy from us! we're ethical! we don't use sweatshops!" so they kind of opened it up for attack
And part of it is because they sell hideous gold lame leggings. for $80 a pair
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: Where do you shop if you don't mind me asking? I'm open to finding places that are somewhat environmentally friendly, don't use sweatshop labor, and don't have iffy ads.
@colormeroutine: The shiny leggings are $42. Why yes, I do have a pair, haha.
@greengrey: even if the model is of age, but appears underage, i would sort of have a problem with that imagery put out there into the universe. also, the context of the nudity is the thing--AA's use of nudity is just raunchy, not natural or egalitarian...
@greengrey: Arguably worse, but not necessarily worse. I don't know if I can say sweatshop labor is worse than the level of sexual harassment that seems to exist at AA. I don't think they are comparable, but I think it is horrendous that a company would market itself as treating employees well based on their salaries when they are exploited sexually. It is not just the ads, it is the ads and the treatment of employees by the head of the company.
@greengrey: I actually don't really shop a lot, partially because I feel guilty whenever I buy things and partially because I am poor. I am in the process of teaching myself how to sew my own clothes because I am just THAT frontier chic.
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: Please tell me you are working on bonnets and pantaloons and lace-trimmed aprons. It would make my day. Frontier Zombie! It's like The Little Zombie House on the Prairie, and there is nothing more awesome than that.
@Harlot Brontë: Actually, I am sort of considering making myself some sunbonnets because I live in Texas...Also, somebody really freakin' needs to write Little Zombie House on the Prairie in the same style as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: "Pa carefully loaded his musket with black powder and bullets he had made himself in a lead mold, took aim, and shot the lurching zombie square between the eyes. It dropped with a *splorch*."
There are too many fashion "reality" TV shows. The one about Elle internships was the most unrealistic crap I've ever seen. I wouldn't mind if they made a TV show about fashion and pulled out the tired Devil Wears Prada refs, but putting it in "reality" shows just encourages the stereotypes.
It'd be like making a finance reality TV show (plz god no), and modeling it after "wall street".
Okay, I have to admit it, Gwyneth Paltrow is growing on me. I am sort of bizarrely charmed that she has the audacity to charge 100 pounds for a studded tank top. It's a joke, right?
"there's no indication why the line should start at £100." Well, aside from the fact that Gwyneth would never put her name to anything that might be considered "cheap".
@CurtCole: He'll be sure to start off the launch of his apparel line by filling everyone in on how many women he's slept with. You know, to cancel out the fact that he has a fashion line. He'll also sing a song about how much he loves women, and the various reasons why.
@GirlFailer: Every so often, I hear of a celebrity starting a fashion line, and I really want to quit being a fashion designer. The Kenny Chesney item certainly makes me want to quit. Right now.
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Did they prove she is "underaged"? Appearing to be under 16 and BEING under 16 are two very different things.
As "sleazy" as AA is, at least they don't use sweatshop labor? They certainly aren't the only store to use sexually provocative ads, and they have much better practices than most places.
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I'd rather shop at AA than urban outfitters. I don't know why people consider AA worse than UO.
But the only articles on Jez about UO or anthropologie are pictures from their catalog, and we ignore the awful shit their chairman pulls. Why is AA constantly attacked, but stores with worse practices are left alone?
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And part of it is because they sell hideous gold lame leggings. for $80 a pair
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@colormeroutine: The shiny leggings are $42. Why yes, I do have a pair, haha.
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Their jeans are around $80.
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I shall charge thousands!
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