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Party Skirts – Then Be Outraged By The Things That Happen In Your Backyard

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party skirts We recently had a ‘one shoulder’ dress from the ’80s donated to the Columbia collection, and the shoulder with a strap has these giant fabric flowers. They’re huge, and many of us are aware that there are loads of them. Right, so this Vionnet gown shows how low cut backs contrasted with excessively low hemlines, even in the Depressionera when extra fabric was a true luxury. Via metmuseum.org. Then again, left, with that said, this 1930s advertisement shows the diagonal seams and limited ornamentation of popular ‘biascut’ dresses. Look at this industry.

It’s a well documented problem with studies and research and case studies.

Talent is there but it ain’t fostered, recognised, promoted or celebrated. That’s a sector where the levels of senior creative women is staggering -in that they simply doesn’t exist. Not a creative -it’s hard not to see this latest incident as pure clickbait, with this as a backdrop -and I’m just a journalist. When we focus our energy at a party with burlesque dancers when we bandy gether in collective outrage on a report board, when we shout at how this offends our moral sensitivities, we are skirting the around the point, consequently many times that it’s dizzying.

party skirts For those who don’t know, the MC story came out on a day when AdNews broke news that a fantastic, adland woman -Nitsa Lotus -had been made MD at a major Sydney agency.

For all the conniptions on the Mumbrella message board, not one person thought to mention or celebrate that fact.

Hundreds of comments on how women aren’t news in this country and noone gave a shit that a woman is running the show. We were deliberate in making this unbylined leader article something the entire Mumbrella team stands behind. There’s no issue with burlesque, as we said in Mumbrella’s editorial. Certainly, the significant poser is one of time and place. Nobody’s moral sensitivities were outraged. In apologising, MC Saatchi have themselves recognised that opening the evening by having a woman jump out of a birthday cake and take off her clothes was the wrong context. It’s a well I have had coworkers blatantly hit on during business lunches, phone calls from anonymous females crying down the phone line about sexual harassment, meetings where people have offered to explain to me what programmatic means before I’ve had a chance to open my mouth and tell them that ‘thanks, I’m quite sure I actually know’.

party skirts Good well balanced piece Rachael.

Seems the outrage economy remains alive and well in As an industry we must absolutely focus on the real problems.

I heard the party was great. Weekend’s media beat up looks pretty much similar to the brilliant piece by Hungry Beast. Thanks for the reminderkind of sad we need it. Pay them the respect of accepting that they are sincerely held, agree or disagree. Please don’t insult the Mumbrella team by accusing them of manufacturing their views on this issue. That said, rage is also the wrong word -that came in the comment threat. Now please pay attention. How about to read it again.

In our editorial, noone except was instructed how to feel. We shared our own opinion. Out staff list is here. Please don’t try to turn this into a debate about an editorial team that is mainly men. You see, Mumbrella’s newsdesk team consists of three men and two women, that wouldn’t be the impression your readers should take from what you have written above, as you know. Have you heard about something like that before? It just so happens to be in the other direction, as you’ve written about before, AdNews has the most gender imbalanced editorial team so do not sit on a website, throw around comments and pretend to be enlightened. Be outraged by the things that happen in your backyard. It makes me question the motives of much of this industry. When we all have something else to point fingers at, make sure you do not write opinion articles telling women how to feel and certainly don’t forget that so it is a big problem next week.