Store's display of tiny underwear disgusts shoppers

[matcom]

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Tongues were wagging. E-mails were flying around PTA message groups and church listservs. People who heard about it came by to take a look for themselves. The issue was tiny underwear -- women's fine lingerie, to be exact-- and how it should be displayed on lifelike mannequins in the newest wing of one of America's biggest malls.

"Little Shop of Whores," huffed one woman standing outside the new Victoria's Secret in Tysons Corner Center. "Slut wear," declared the father of a teenage girl, looking at a feathery-thong-clad mannequin bent over as if she were adjusting her spike heels.

The display at the Victoria's Secret store, which just opened in the expanded wing of Tysons Corner Center, draws lots of attention from passersby. (By Rich Lipski -- The Washington Post)

"I love it," said another woman with a bag of fresh purchases.

The store was doing a brisk business yesterday as shoppers walked by, some nearly snapping their necks as they caught a glimpse of what the mannequins were wearing and their suggestive poses.

"Well," said Steina Rubin of Bethesda, "I find it just totally disgusting." And, no, she would not be shopping there. "I'm not entering a whorehouse," she said. "I come to the mall with my daughter. It's disgusting. And I'm from Europe !"

Last week, a 362,000-square-foot expansion opened at Tysons Corner with 24 stores, five restaurants and a 16-screen movie theater. The new wing is jammed with stores targeted at teenage customers, and among them, between Free People and Guess jeans, is the new Victoria's Secret. Yesterday, it was parents of teenagers who were flocking to the mall.

"I'm anxious to see for myself what the buzz is all about," John Zolldan wrote in an e-mail to the mall management, "and if it is really true that Victoria no longer has any secrets . . . maybe your intent is to provide consumers in Northern Virginia with our first erotic boutique."

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[Heidi]

1. Oh. So only "whores" and "sluts" wear nice underwear.

The naysayers are nutty. I bet they're _really_ outraged by the nude human body.

[no name no slogan]

7. Everybody knows certain parts of the body are inheritly evil

Therefore we must expose them to the light of day at every given opportunity

[Arugula Latte]

15. Smoke 'em out!

heh heh heh

[MrScorpio]

2. Shit likes this makes me want to hightail it to Amsterdam, post haste

No one would bat an eye over this

[radwriter0555]

3. "We don't LAHK our wimmin to be dressin all sexy and kewt in this hare

part of the woods...."

"Walmart underpants are good enough for me, and they're darn sure good enough for our Bobby-Lee too!"

[kick-ass-bob]

4. "And I'm from Europe !"

Yeah, and I love George Bush.

[edbermac]

14. Geez I was in Paris about 13 years ago; that's all I ever saw...

Shop windows, magazines, street billboards; wearing even less than those mall photos...

And lady, do us a favor...go BACK to Europe!! It's bad enough we have home-grown fanatics, we don't need to import them...

[Trigger Hippie]

5. I saw this title and thought

it was underwear for really tiny people or dolls or something like that. :rofl:


Oh, yeah, these people are nuts. Lighten up...

[xmas74]

6. Big deal.

I didn't see anything that small.
I could open up my bra and panty drawer in my dresser right now and find smaller.
Even Walmart sells string thongs. They aren't on mannequins but they are right in front in the lingerie section where small children could see them. What's the big deal?

[Hugin]

8. Hmm... A hand-me-down market for my old BVDs.

All that's left of them when I get through is an elastic
waist band and seams.

They *could be* mistaken for a thong.

[imperialismispasse]

9. Well I for one am all for public displays of underwear

The tinier the better.

[Blue-Jay]

10. After reading those quotes, I feel the need to add -

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

[Zuni]

11. I love Victorias Secret

:patriot:

[Shell Beau]

12. Oh please! That is silly. Why is it okay for those clothes

to hang on the hangers in the store, but God forbid them be on a mannequin?

[xmas74]

18. My point exactly.

I can find some skimpy items on hangers at the local Walmart but I don't hear anyone bitching about that.

[underpants]

13. Did anyone else see Campbell Brown on Letterman last night?

she was there with her new teeth and Dave certainly seemed taken with her and she with him. That being said, she ain't got no *** and NO ***ies

[StuckinBFE]

16. It's lingerie there mannequins some people need to calm down

I've seen a Fredricks of Hollywood in a mall before and nobody cared, hell I saw a women with her 1 year old in there. Sometimes people should just not go outside.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

17. A Quote From the Article That Got Me Thinking

'"I've shopped here for 10 years, and I won't come back until they change the window," said Joe Cowden of Vienna.'


Ooooooooo-K! Are we to understand that Mr. Cowden is a regular, ten-year shopper at Vicky's who just now figured out they trade in healthy eroticism?

And WHY is Mr. Cowden a ten-year Vicky's regular? This may be a FIRST! A prudish drag queen. Somebody call Ripley's!

And, on a similar note, I can understand Wal-Mart panties being good enough for Bobbi Lee, but Bobby Lee? "Oh-my-Dog, Becky! They're everywhere, I tell ya'! It's jus' like what that good, godly, upstanding deputy says in that trashy movie "Too Wong Fool! Them qwars is a-ruinin' everthang!"

[Shakespeare]

19. Boy, they'd just LOVE Trashy Lingerie in West Hollywood.

(Actually, it may technically be in Beverly Hills, which is even better...)

www.trashy.com

They do themed window displays, and frequently put the mannequins right out on the sidewalk. Too fun.