It’s all quite fluffy and silly, How to Look Good Naked, but I do appreciate the message behind the whole series — that you can appreciate your body for its uniqueness, and dress to highlight your favourite bits. We aren’t all tall and skinny.
(But the irony is he uses images from catwalk shows to illustrate what clothing styles suit whom. What’s with his penchant for gold and silver lamé bags? They’re not very nice. Also, high heels. They may make your legs look longer, but they fuck up your feet. A podiatrist told me I wear the best shoes, and they’re all flat and well-supported.)
I believe the host, Gok Wan, mentions quite frequently (I’ve only seen this twice, to be honest) that people are clamouring for ‘real size’ models to grace the pages of magazines. According to my sister, they may clamour, but they won’t buy. And if they won’t buy, advertisers won’t spend.
Anyway, I enjoy the show for some lighthearted self-esteem-boosting right before a more grisly CSI. Too bad that was the last one (How to Look Good Naked, not CSI).
(I am quite looking forward to the season finale of CSI, it looks like it’s building up to a very suspenseful one. CSI: Miami was particularly woeful last night. So bad it wasn’t even kitsch.)
Comments
20 June 2007
15:51
Jeff Trull
Wait a minute. “How to Look Good Naked” is about what clothes to wear?
20 June 2007
15:56
andrea
Oddly, yes. But the ‘climax’ (heh) of the programme (actually, there are two — multiple! Oh stop!) is a nude photo shoot (and fashion show where the week’s subject gets to go down the catwalk — in her new outfits and finally, in her new undies).
20 June 2007
21:17
shauna
Great post, I like the message too. But the one thing that makes me and G crack up laughing is when they get the chicks in undies to line up, and he says, “So where do you think you fit into this lineup?” And the chick places herself at the biggest end of the line. Then Gok says, “NO, girlfriend! You’re way down the other end! You’re nowhere near as big as that!”. I always imagine the big chick thinking, “DUDE, yeah. thanks very f*cking much!” hehehe.
21 June 2007
09:12
andrea
Yeah, I did think that the women he uses in those lineups MUST have incredible self-esteem. Maybe that’s part of the questionnaire to appear on the show: Do you care if you’re bigger than some people?
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