{"id":73247,"date":"2023-11-20T12:13:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T17:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=73247"},"modified":"2023-11-20T12:13:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T17:13:34","slug":"grin-and-wear-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2023\/11\/20\/grin-and-wear-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Grin and Wear It?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CxHHDjoNrfy\">recent photo<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/dinalitovsky.substack.com\/p\/when-a-fashion-week-image-goes-viral\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dinalitovsky.substack.com\/p\/when-a-fashion-week-image-goes-viral\">Dina Litovsky showing a model\u2019s inflamed feet in slingback heels<\/a> went viral, with reposts from National Geographic and a whole host of Instagram influencers. The photo garnered just over 500k likes and comments criticizing the prioritization of beauty over pain. This is not the first time these images have gone viral. In Louis Vuitton\u2019s 2012 show in Paris, photos of runway models\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-2048858\/Battered-bruised-swollen-After-month-Fashion-Week-shows-models-feet-reveal-ugly-toll-walking-runways.html\">battered and bruised feet<\/a> made the rounds. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CxHHDjoNrfy\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CxHHDjoNrfy\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div><\/div><div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div> <div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\"><div> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div><\/div><div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\"> <div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div> <div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)\"><\/div><\/div><div style=\"margin-left: auto;\"> <div style=\" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div> <div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div> <div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div><\/div><\/div> <div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\"> <div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div> <div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div><\/div><\/a><p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CxHHDjoNrfy\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by National Geographic (@natgeo)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Photo by Dina Litovsky &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/dinalitovsky.substack.com\/p\/when-a-fashion-week-image-goes-viral\">see reflections, and even more images of the modeling industry, on the Substack here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Models <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/55909\/1\/fashion-stop-models-unwearable-shoes-runway-fall-naomi-campbell-lindsey-wixson\">can and have refused<\/a> to wear outrageous shoes, but they risk paying the price by being judged as unprofessional, especially models with low status and prestige within the industry. The industry often praises models for their ability to endure long shoots and poses <a href=\"https:\/\/thefashionography.com\/fashion-campaigns\/kendall-jenner-for-stella-mccartney-winter-2023\/\">overtly<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/thefashionography.com\/fashion-campaigns\/loewe-fall-winter-2023-campaign\/\">subtly<\/a> contortionist. Yet measuring professionalism by a model\u2019s willingness to endure pain demonstrates the toxicity of professional status at the cost of one\u2019s wellbeing. Phrases like \u201cbeauty is pain\u201d and \u201clook good, feel good\u201d link one\u2019s appearance to their inherent value and capabilities. On the catwalk, the consequences of professional norms skew models&#8217; agency, and prices of pain are paid to justify, uphold, and maintain a professional image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These runway shoes teeter between symbols of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/55909\/1\/fashion-stop-models-unwearable-shoes-runway-fall-naomi-campbell-lindsey-wixson\">empowerment and oppression<\/a>, as models embody cultural ideals of gender, race, class, and sexual identity. Simultaneously, their personhood is commoditized as \u201caesthetic laborers.\u201d Empowered by the high fashion industry\u2019s exclusivity and idealism, models experience dogged yet isolating work conditions. These images <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Serve\">serve looks<\/a>, but also serve as reminders of social expectations of beauty that reinforce of cultural standards shaped by power, race, and status. Sociologist Ashley Mears\u2019 ethnography of models, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book\/9780520270763\">Pricing Beauty<\/a><\/em>, argues these ideals become prescriptive shaping cultural expectation of how people should look and be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The struggle spreads from the fashion industry to the everyday consumer. In her essay \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/567511\/trick-mirror-by-jia-tolentino\/\">Always Be Optimizing,<\/a>\u201d Jia Tolentino connects pain and suffering to self-optimization. Narrating her experience and research on intense Pilates and barre workouts, Tolentino argues that gendered beauty ideals have transformed into a pursuit of optimization that hides oppressive cultural beauty standards. These painful practices are obscured as self-care, sweating it out, <em>and<\/em> getting a toned and sculpted body. Important here is the illusion of \u201cagency\u201d in doing \u201cself-care\u201d and choosing to \u201coptimize\u201d or improving one\u2019s womanly figure. These lures of \u201clook good feel good\u201d and cultural expectations of beauty and that \u201cbeauty is pain,\u201d justify the aches and pains from working out. Shoes are both a vehicle for our feet and for gendered cultural and societal expectations, standards, and ideals worthy of praise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rachel Bickelman is a MA and PhD student at University of Massachusetts Boston.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent photo from Dina Litovsky showing a model\u2019s inflamed feet in slingback heels went viral, with reposts from National Geographic and a whole host of Instagram influencers. The photo garnered just over 500k likes and comments criticizing the prioritization of beauty over pain. This is not the first time these images have gone viral. 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