Elle Unwisely Crowns an Unlikely Fashion Icon

From Elle’€™s “€œFactory Girls,” April:

Rosie the Riveter emerges as spring’€™s most unexpected style icon as designers reimagine simple blouses, high-waisted trousers, and other 1940s staples.

So adopting Rosie the Riveter as a mascot of sorts for these fashions makes perfect sense.  Because when Rosie said “We can do it!,” she actually meant “We can appropriate otherwise meaningful icons to sell $850 pants!  We can dupe women into thinking they’re honoring my legacy when really, they’€™re just following trends like sheep!  Yes, we can render a symbol of female equality totally meaningless!”

Comments

[Alex]

That's brilliant.