Wow I didn’t know mannequins could ever be “fat.” But that’s exactly what writer Cintra Wilson wrote in her column in the Times.
Not only does she discuss how tacky the clothes are:
“A good 96 percent of the Penney’s inventory is made of polyester. The few clothing items that are made of cotton make a sincere point of being cotton and tell you earnestly about their 100-percent cottonness with faux-hand-scribbled labels so obviously on the Green bandwagon they practically spit pine cones.”
but then she goes on about their mannequins:
“herein lies the genius of J. C. Penney: It has made a point of providing clothing for people of all sizes (a strategy, company officials have said, to snatch business from nearby Macy’s). To this end, it has the most obese mannequins I have ever seen. They probably need special insulin-based epoxy injections just to make their limbs stay on. It’s like a headless wax museum devoted entirely to the cast of “Roseanne.”
What’s wrong with wearing polyester? What’s wrong with selling clothes that fit the average sized, size 14 woman? And what’s wrong with displaying those clothing on normal sized mannequins? Not everyone is rail thin, and Wilson treads in dangerous waters when she rants and implies in a well respected, large scale publication that women (and girls) should be nothing more than a size 2.
Read the entire column HERE.
