There’s this old propaganda that horizontal stripes make you look “fat,” e.g. bad, and vertical stripes have the opposite effect, thinning, e.g. good. This is harmful rhetoric, as it encourages women to overprioritize looking thin.
It is true that the horizonal stripe dress accentuates the curves, whereas the vertical stripes diminish them. But the values ascribed to these features are ass-backward. Curvy is good! Love the horizontal stripes personally.
I don’t think anyone here is against the horizontal stripes. The vertical ones don’t make her look fat, they just totally obfuscate her figure and make her look shapeless
There’s this old propaganda that horizontal stripes make you look “fat,” e.g. bad, and vertical stripes have the opposite effect, thinning, e.g. good. This is harmful rhetoric, as it encourages women to overprioritize looking thin.
It is true that the horizonal stripe dress accentuates the curves, whereas the vertical stripes diminish them. But the values ascribed to these features are ass-backward. Curvy is good! Love the horizontal stripes personally.
I don’t think anyone here is against the horizontal stripes. The vertical ones don’t make her look fat, they just totally obfuscate her figure and make her look shapeless
It’s a classic old saying. Women of my generation grew up hearing it and being shamed for wearing horizontal stripes.
No one is saying vertical makes people look fat. If anything, it makes then look frumpy, uncomfortable and awkward.