{"id":24078,"date":"2010-06-10T10:48:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24078"},"modified":"2016-07-12T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T03:45:12","slug":"nude-is-the-new-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/10\/nude-is-the-new-black\/","title":{"rendered":"“Nude is the New Black”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin A. B. drew our attention to a Marie Claire<\/em> fashion slide show<\/a> titled “Nude is the New Black.”\u00a0 By “nude” (ironically) they mean, “white-person-color.” \u00a0Every single picture featured a tan or cream item.\u00a0 Every. Single. One.<\/p>\n

We’ve been covering this phenomenon.\u00a0 See our posts on \u201cflesh-colored,\u201d<\/a> Michelle Obama\u2019s \u201cnude\u201d colored dress<\/a>, the new in-color<\/a>, lotion for \u201cnormal to darker skin,”<\/a> and color-assisted medical diagnosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NEW! (July ’10):<\/strong><\/span> Anna sent in another example, this time an article about Givenchy’s Fall 2010 collection<\/a>. According to the article (at style.com), “everything was white, flesh-colored, or gold, with a salon dedicated to each shade.” On the Givenchy website, they use the term “nude.” An example of a “flesh-colored\/nude” dress:<\/p>\n

A group photo that shows the range of colors; the two in the middle are the “nude” dresses:<\/p>\n

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Also NEW! (July ’10): <\/strong><\/span>Juliana B. pointed out that in the May 2010 issue of Esquire<\/em> an article on haircuts completely ignored Black men, who might not be able to use the suggestions on their hair…but in the June issue, the editor responded to a letter from a reader by acknowledging “he’s right.” They then included a segment on haircuts for Black men:<\/p>\n

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\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justin A. B. drew our attention to a Marie Claire fashion slide show titled “Nude is the New Black.”\u00a0 By “nude” (ironically) they mean, “white-person-color.” \u00a0Every single picture featured a tan or cream item.\u00a0 Every. Single. One. We’ve been covering this phenomenon.\u00a0 See our posts on \u201cflesh-colored,\u201d Michelle Obama\u2019s \u201cnude\u201d colored dress, the new in-color, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,373,285,1757],"class_list":["post-24078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-color","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24078"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69119,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078\/revisions\/69119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}