Summary: A girl goes to a social event. She sits down at a table and starts up a conversation with a few individuals who are also dining with her. During the course of the conversation, one of the individuals asks the girl where she learned to tie her scarf the way she did. The girl openly mentions she saw it on a mannequin in a store a few days prior and decided the give it a try. The others at the table look at the girl with a strange look, as if to infer her lack of sophistication/style/tact/etc.
Really? Apparently this girl is ahead of the game because she caught the attention of the others sitting at the table in the first place.
Store fronts dress mannequins to attract consumers. That's the purpose of the mannequin. I've gone into a store and bought the entire outfit that the store front model was wearing and it was one of my best outfits. What I don't understand is what is wrong with doing that. Do people really spin their stories around buying clothes?
What is wrong with buying/accessorising like the model? Or admitting to doing it? After all, isn't that what we're supposed to do?
I would have been thinking how clever it was to look at the model & wished I thought of that! We are made to believe that we are only fashion-worthy if we naturally know what looks good. Truth is most of us learn it from others. But I can totally admit to spinning in the past before I realized it's way cooler to just be yourself!
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