SaltBoy
Diamond Member
Yes, I was bored.
But needless to say, I have received an education of the worst kind - what it "supposedly" takes to have self esteem as a teenage girl. While, thankfully, I didn't see any "50 ways to please your teenage-boyfriend in bed"-like articles, I have never seen so many misguided attempts to dictate tasteful fashion to young women.
Not only were the clothes that the models were extremely flat-out ugly, they were expensive, too. On one page, a big deal was made between what outfits cost on the runway versus what similar outfits cost in real life. On the runway, an outfit was around $2000. In real life, a similar outfit was ONLY $400. Oh, ONLY $400 for one outfit? Wow, what a deal!
And their makeup ideas? Ugh. It looks like the Heroin addict look is back in style.
Anyway, any normal teenage girl who reads this and interprets this crap as normal and cool is going to be seriously depressed and confused. Elle Girl should be for the superficial, spoiled-rotten, rich daddy's b**ch (e.g. the Paris Hilton's of the world) who can afford it ONLY, and it's a travesty that other girls think they need to buy, read, and follow the ideas of this dungheap of a magazine to be happy.
I'm reminded of the name of the clique in the movie "Mean Girls" - the Plastics. Plastic indeed. :|
But needless to say, I have received an education of the worst kind - what it "supposedly" takes to have self esteem as a teenage girl. While, thankfully, I didn't see any "50 ways to please your teenage-boyfriend in bed"-like articles, I have never seen so many misguided attempts to dictate tasteful fashion to young women.
Not only were the clothes that the models were extremely flat-out ugly, they were expensive, too. On one page, a big deal was made between what outfits cost on the runway versus what similar outfits cost in real life. On the runway, an outfit was around $2000. In real life, a similar outfit was ONLY $400. Oh, ONLY $400 for one outfit? Wow, what a deal!
And their makeup ideas? Ugh. It looks like the Heroin addict look is back in style.
Anyway, any normal teenage girl who reads this and interprets this crap as normal and cool is going to be seriously depressed and confused. Elle Girl should be for the superficial, spoiled-rotten, rich daddy's b**ch (e.g. the Paris Hilton's of the world) who can afford it ONLY, and it's a travesty that other girls think they need to buy, read, and follow the ideas of this dungheap of a magazine to be happy.
I'm reminded of the name of the clique in the movie "Mean Girls" - the Plastics. Plastic indeed. :|
