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Whenever I have the privilege of peaking inside an issue of Vogue I notice the ads. This is mostly due to the fact that the whole magazine is one big ad. It's also a little bit because there are a bunch of naked women.
I know what you're thinking: just another sex-crazed guy looking at naked women. Not quite. The fact that they are naked isn't what catches my attention. The fact that it's a magazine that sells mostly women's fashion and it's busting at the seams with ads full of naked women catches my attention.
How does an ad for a women's product sell anything when it has naked women in it? Isn't that the tactic usually reserved for men's products? Shouldn't vogue be full of clothed women selling clothes. If not, at least have some mostly naked men selling banana hammocks or something.
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The same goes for male products: half the time the ad is full of shirtless, pant-less men. Maybe it's just me but I'm not going to buy a pair of Calvin Klein jeans because they look great lying on the floor next to a guy doing a spread eagle in a pair of tighty whities.
I get that they are saying if you buy this shirt or wear this perfume you will look like this. It's all a lie! Don't believe it. I doubt most of you do anyway.
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I remember seeing girls at my private high school thumbing through magazines like this and wondering the same thing you point out here.
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of ridiculous if you think about it, especially considering some of the fashions they're trying to sell. No one would actually wear half of these things, which is why it seems they feel the need to sell if with sex.