It’s a well-known fact that I am somewhat conservative in my outlook [chorus of “No, Kim… not you!], but not really when it comes to women’s clothing. Having come of age during the late 1960s and 1970s, I kinda like it when women show off their bodies (allowing for the Lizzo Exception, of course).
However, this one made me stop in my tracks:
Granted, she’s another one of those Brit Celeb/Actresses/Houris [some overlap] but at least she’s apparently married to the father, so there’s that. But I still feel a little… uncomfortable? looking at that display.
Now I’m not one of those “cover up everything because pregnancy is somehow shameful” people — sheesh, that went out with the Victorians — and I recall seeing some awfully-sexy pregnant women in Chile who were not at all shy about wearing tight little mini-dresses and high heels as they strutted their stuff around downtown Santiago. I love the whole thing about pregnant women, too; I think it’s glorious.
Still, I can’t help feeling that the above is a little too ostentatious or even vulgar. Can we not say that women need to be a little more ladylike about the whole thing?
I know, I know:
“Kim, women show off their tummies in bikinis and midriff tops all the time — and you’re a serial offender when it comes to posting those pics, you dirty old bastard. So why should it be any different when they’re pregnant?”
Because it IS different.
I welcome comments on the topic.
Google says that blonde chick up above was part of a (Schiaparelli) runway show, i.e. something intended to shock and provoke, as opposed to something you would see in normal human behavior.
“Hello, modeling agency? I need hot pregant runway models for a show. How many can you send me?” “Wait one. When do you need them?”
Apparently, you can rent any kind of woman you want in the crazy world. All it takes is sufficient cash.
I’m aware that’s it’s a serious error to question the choices made by a pregnant woman, and this is a dress in a fashion show, but really? What happens in the next 30 minutes when she needs to sit down, go thru a doorway, use the ladies room, sees herself in a mirror or any of the other things that sets off a pregnant woman?
This lady is Sienna Miller, a fairly decent actress who’s managed to snag a chap several years younger than her, and who has clearly been …….busy.
Not her best photo. Can’t say I’m find such pictures attractive – Rihanna is a serial offender. As Kim says, be more ladylike – no need to flaunt it, everyone knows how it got there!
If you want to see her as Sienna usually is, a search on Sienna Miller, Layer Cake bedroom scene, will be uplifting I’m sure.
Old age catching up with you. A beautiful woman can do anything she wants. She sets the standards; she makes the rules.
Put aside the midriff; that abomination of a dress makes one wonder if the wearer were involved in a Kool-Whip explosion.
Is it supported by a bustle?
It has to be. Otherwise this effect, like that of hoop skirts, wouldn’t survive first contact with a chair, a doorway, another person, and it would look like deflated jodphurs, something women in pants object to when someone thinks they are wearing them.
clothes are to meet practical purposes of protection from the environment. style is supposed to accentuate natural beauty and attractiveness. It’s weird that people would want to see the bare abdomen of an 8 month pregnant woman whose umbilicus looks like one of those Purdue pop up timers on a Thanksgiving Day roast turkey. Whatever Lizzo wears does not do that at all.
JQ
I think it was Demi Moore who started the whole thing. I remember seeing a photo of her cradling her bare “baby bulge” somewhere. Ever since then every knocked up Hollywood halfwit has had to show off her advanced pregnancy in a tabloid rag or on social media. I’m not the father (or “baby daddy”, yech! What an awful term!) I fail to see the glow, so I don’t need to see those pictures.
If you can hang a barn coat on your belly button, it’s time to cover up.
I’m in agreement with Kim on this one.
No one wants to look at a pot gut.
Guys, girls cover that shit up. We’ll still know it there, whatever the reason.