I made this post:
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*before* hearing about the Sydney Sweeney controversy. Maybe some of you thought this was about that? It wasn't.
But I do think "something is in the air." In the zeitgeist.
To summarize: Actress Sydney Sweeney just made a commercial for American Eagle. It echos an infamous 1980 commercial by then underage supermodel Brooke Shields.
This is the original ad. "good jeans"
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1980 Calvin Klein Jeans Commercial feat. Brooke Shields
The commercial Brooke Shields made famous back in 1980 featuring Calvin Klein Jeans.YouTube
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myrmepropagandist
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Advertisers try to speak to the id. I'm not surprised American Eagle wants to try to recapture themes of that older commercial. But, they didn't just copy, they have leaned into new themes.
Sydney Sweeney, like Brooke Shields talks about her "good jeans" but also, in case the whistle wasn't loud enough her blue eyes and how they are passed on from parent to child.
This ad will be regarded as very successful and we may see more of it. Isn't that depressing?
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I'm not linking the new ad since people linking it to discuss it is part of why it's "successful" and I hate this trend for multiple reasons.
All you need to know is it's a lot like the old one but Sydney Sweeney is blonde and mentions she has blue eyes. Sydney Sweeney is not underage, but she's very youthful.
I have no idea if she personally has thoughts on any of this. I'm just interested in how "politics" can seep into advertising.
And what the cultural mirror is showing us.
myrmepropagandist
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I guess don't buy American Eagle if you can avoid it. But, really you shouldn't buy American Eagle because they sell the same poorly constructed clothing found at many chains.
If you want to look good in jeans I recommend made to measure. A perfect fit will make you look amazing and almost no one has clothing that fits unless they can sew. If you can't sew, consider having a thrift piece altered by a tailor. This can be done for less than retail sometimes. That's how you get "good jeans"
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •A substantial portion of the money a company like American Eagle spends on developing a product goes into marketing and image. Trying to produce ads that will catch a headline, trigger deep nostalgia, ads that make people feel things.
That's why although the Brooke Shields controversy in 1980 was seen as negative in the general press in the advertising trade papers it was a highly admired campaign and lead to the thinking that having people fret about your underaged models was "effective"
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I love reading advertising trade papers. They are so earnestly engaged in finding ways to manipulate our emotions to sell product and I think once you see that the glamor is broken.
It doesn't feel good to be manipulated. I was definitely manipulated by this kind of advertising as a teen, and still can be swayed even now. But, understanding how it functions makes it easier to see how it could be happening.
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I mostly end up reading either thedrum.com or adage and adweek ... but when someone else finds "telling" review.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •The video game industry has gotten timid about publishing articles like that when they realized that some customers and journalists liked reading the trade publications.
They used to publish articles straightforwardly talking about how to design free-to-play games specifically to trigger compulsive spending in the "whales".
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I called it!
Another brand just did it. Only this brand had their young attractive actor be a white fellow with dark hair this time and he says his *tan* is "good genetics"
I submit all of that is intentional, which is why I mention it.
(the line makes very little sense in the context of the ad but some media are helpfully calling it "controversial" already)
"Calling it" used to be a lot more fun.
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summisera is an online option with prices so low I find it concerning. (It's about $110 for jeans which is both expensive and cheap at the same time since they do make them to measure each time)
They are the only big international company I know of doing it.
Mostly I take clothing to the laundry around the corner and the tailor there alters whatever I bring in. Makes me feel like a genius about fashion he's amazing.
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That is very brave of you.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I go through jeans too fast to get them altered. I buy them at the charity shop and wear them (on rotation) until they're actually indecent (by which time they'll be used only for gardening and wood-splitting).
Call me tragically old — I'll wear that — but I do find that stretch jeans look better and are more comfortable than others. (For context, I'm approaching retirement, but I take jeans in a 32" waist and my lower body's still presentable.) I don't know why everyone doesn't prefer them.
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I find them hot. The fabric isn't as breathable. But with thrifting there isn't any good reason to spend $100 on mass produced jeans with poorly merged seams.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •As a short guy, I have found that the pants that fit me best are made for women.
I buy white ones and tiedye them. Usually from the thrift shop, but l bought some of these when they were on sale. They fit me perfectly and have lots of pockets.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •That outfit didn't even fit Ms. Sweeney particularly well. Looks like Mao-era Communist Chinese clothing.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Artemis
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Yeah, it has bad vibes. Especially given that Sweeney has become the darling of the right, and while she hasn't fully *embraced* that, she has also chosen not to reject it. She's apparently comfortable with (or at least accepting of) becoming a symbol for them & their racial & gender politics.
It would be impossible to *prove* intent here (certainly not without some kind of behind-the-scenes bombshell), but it is super sketchy & there is no way they don't know what it sounds like.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •you looks at the orginal Brook Shield ad had a point. Jeans that fit. That their jeans are superior because they fit.
Jeans back then did not have lycra and could be incredibly confining. They could be so tight some women used plyers to zip them up at the first wear after a wash. "Survival of the fittest" was the selling point. She touches her foot to her head. The jeans fit and are thus superior, with no direct inference to Brook.
(Can we recognize just how Brook pulls off that technical dialog while getting dressed and basically doing yoga? That isn't easy)
The tag line in the modern ad conflates the model's genes with jeans.
That her genes are superior, as well as her jeans.