Today, I attended my first ever fashion show, produced by the Fashion Show Production class at LIM College Fashion Lab! Please click here if you want to read my review, because I won't be talking about that on this post. What I will be talking about, however, is something that happened following the show.
When we returned to class after the fashion show, there was a large group discussion. The weird thing was, at least half of the conversation did not revolve around the clothes or the set, it was about the models. For a good five minutes, some of my classmates were commentating on how you could see some of the girls' bra straps or panty lines. It makes me kind of sad that these things bother people. Even though these details may distract from the clothes, we also have to remember who these clothes are for: real human beings that wear bras and briefs.
Sometimes, fashion week runway shows really irk me because people are so commercialized. Every now and then you could just see a model's boobs gaping through her completely see-through garment, and we think that's completely normal. But not many people in the real world would put themselves on display like that. We're not coat hangers. We don't put on clothes just for people to look at the clothes. We put them on so people can see how we look in it. I don't want to watch a runway show and say, "that dress looks good on that model, but I don't think it'll look good when I wear it with a bra." I want to see the real thing.
So, I say god bless the bra straps and panty lines in this show. I'm glad to know those were real women on the stage, not just walking mannequins.
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