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Old 06-19-2021, 11:13 AM
 
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Bottom line is that, no matter what the woke want to try to shovel, obese people are not attractive. Biologically, they don't project virility. But, VS isn't selling to the average guy, who understands what is attractive. They are targeting women, most of whom are overweight. Maybe the idea is to put a big tub of goo on their cover so other women can look at them and think, "well, at least I'm not that fat! I can get away with wearing that if she can".
Biologically, we are designed to find thicker girls attractive.

Culturally, we’ve been programmed by a fashion industry dominated by gay men to find stick thin women attractive.

 
Old 06-19-2021, 01:28 PM
 
Location: 404
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Lingerie is a fading relic of a wealthier era. Clothes will need to be plainer and more functional to be durable enough to buy as manufacturing quality declines. All the big corporate clothiers will eventually disappear as their expenses rise and supply chains break.
 
Old 06-19-2021, 01:35 PM
 
Location: Rural Wisconsin
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Lingerie is a fading relic of a wealthier era. Clothes will need to be plainer and more functional to be durable enough to buy as manufacturing quality declines. All the big corporate clothiers will eventually disappear as their expenses rise and supply chains break.
You might have a point, but if it clothes do become more utilitarian for the masses, I think there will be much more of a gap like there used to be, or at least in Europe and the U.S. Look at almost any period of time prior to about 1920, and the "peasant women" wore plain, functional clothing, while a single dress for the average rich woman probably cost as much as a working-class woman would spend on clothing in her entire life! (For just one example of this compare "Ma Ingalls" everyday garb to the elegance of a Mrs. Vanderbilt of that period.)
 
Old 06-19-2021, 04:15 PM
 
Location: Somewhere below Mason/Dixon
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Biologically, we are designed to find thicker girls attractive.

Culturally, we’ve been programmed by a fashion industry dominated by gay men to find stick thin women attractive.
Thicker gals can be really attractive but “thick” and obese are two different things. Obese is not attractive on men or women and it is not healthy. Promoting obesity helps no one, let us remember that obesity actually kills people. Being obese is super unhealthy
 
Old 06-19-2021, 05:25 PM
 
Location: Western North Carolina
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This should help their sales, said no logical thinking people...
It's not about sales.

At all.
 
Old 06-19-2021, 05:25 PM
 
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File this under…… Go Woke Go Broke

Victoria’s Secret Does Away with ‘Angels’ – Will Replace Models with Transgenders, Plus Size Women

It’s 2021 so the company is going in a new direction by getting rid of the ‘angels’ and bringing in America-hating, purple-haired SJW Megan Rapinoe, transgender models and plus size (obese) women.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...us-size-women/
VS is to lingerie now like Playboy is to porn
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Old 06-19-2021, 11:49 PM
 
Location: Alberta, Canada
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My ex-wife could have been a Victoria's Secret model. She had the height, the weight, the figure, the carriage.

But she wasn't a model, and she never tried to be. What she did say was that VS was too expensive, and that she could get the same thing at Sears for half the price. Which she did.

And she looked pretty damn good in those Sears undies!
 
Old 06-20-2021, 12:30 AM
 
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My ex-wife could have been a Victoria's Secret model. She had the height, the weight, the figure, the carriage.

But she wasn't a model, and she never tried to be. What she did say was that VS was too expensive, and that she could get the same thing at Sears for half the price. Which she did.

And she looked pretty damn good in those Sears undies!
Funny. I used to date a gal who was just like that.

She used to say...

"Better to have Walmart clothes on a Gucci body than Gucci clothes on a Walmart body."
 
Old 06-20-2021, 12:55 AM
 
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My ex-wife could have been a Victoria's Secret model. She had the height, the weight, the figure, the carriage.

But she wasn't a model, and she never tried to be. What she did say was that VS was too expensive, and that she could get the same thing at Sears for half the price. Which she did.

And she looked pretty damn good in those Sears undies!
You could not ever get the same thing at Sears because Sears did not make the same thing.

VS became popular for a reason, and it was not the models. They led the way with their designs and quality to match, something no one was doing at the time.

That has changed, VS quality has tanked (which in my opinion is the number one problem), and other companies have caught up in the design area, and matching or exceeding the quality, all at a lower price point.
 
Old 06-20-2021, 12:59 AM
 
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Bottom line is that, no matter what the woke want to try to shovel, obese people are not attractive. Biologically, they don't project virility. But, VS isn't selling to the average guy, who understands what is attractive. They are targeting women, most of whom are overweight. Maybe the idea is to put a big tub of goo on their cover so other women can look at them and think, "well, at least I'm not that fat! I can get away with wearing that if she can".
The thing is, fat women have always been shopping there. Go to any VS, and you will see the representation of the population there just fine.

The whole "only thin women shop there" is a myth, they always had sizes for fat women, and the stores have been filled with them.
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