Victoria's Secret Backs Down (a little) Horror continues!

Ok, I couldn't help it. An update on this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4995721&mesg_id=4995721

This wasn't just VA it seems, there was also "outrage" in WI!

Victoria's Secret tones down suggestive displays

Victoria's Secret stores in McLean, Va., and Wauwatosa, Wis., are targets of the latest clothing controversy. Local residents are railing against scantily clad - and provocatively posed - mannequins: women on all fours, others intertwined on a bed, still others in "garters and whatnot, and the only thing missing is a whip," says Stan Zurawski, who's leading the charge in Wauwatosa.

It's a familiar cycle: Retailers ratchet up the raunch because they want to be edgy. Concerned shoppers react with neighborhood meetings and protests, and the company tones things down. (Remember the now-defunct Abercrombie & Fitch catalog that showed topless models?)


In McLean, concessions have meant, among other changes, straightening up and flipping around a thong-wearing mannequin whose largely bare derriere had greeted passersby. (Opponents are still not satisfied: A second protest is planned for today after a gathering Friday drew 40 to 50 people.)


In Wauwatosa, a reclining mannequin has been turned over so that its thong-clad bottom is no longer "mooning" the window, as Zurawski put it. But that's "absolutely not good enough for us," he says.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20051010/en_usatoday/victoriassecrettonesdownsuggestivedisplays

New line for Victoria if the Religious Right have their way?

to Iraq, give their lives meaning ...fuckheads.

I admit to enjoying sexually repressed people get worked up :evilgrin:

really isn`t there something more important than plastic people?

A couple of years ago it began gearing toward the overtly sexual instead of the comfortably feminine. It has also "redesigned" its bras in order to jack up the prices. I use to love VS but they've lost me as a customer.

of empowering the women and let them play, it is play for the man. i liked how in the past it was about the woman, not the man. lost me too

retailers pushing sexual, degrading conduct to young women. Hope women revolt and just quit buying this crap and stop supporting companies that have no respect for women. Women on all fours in highly suggestive sexual poses belong in love shop windows and in private bedrooms, not malls.

What are we saying to young women? Act like this and you too can be beautiful and successful? What a load of crap.

They carry a *really* narrow range of sizes. If you've got a smallish frame or are full figured, you're SOL. For what they charge they ought to be able to keep more sizes in stock or special order a cute bra in an odd size but apparently if you're not a 34B-38D they don't want your cash.

Assholes. :grr: