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Victoria's Secret apologizes for use of headdress
Associated Press ^ | November 13, 2012

Posted on 11/13/2012 7:08:53 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

Victoria's Secret has apologized for putting a Native American-style headdress on a model for its annual fashion show, after the outfit was criticized as a display of ignorance toward tribal culture and history.

The company responded to the complaints over the weekend by saying it was sorry to have upset anyone and that it wouldn't include the outfit in the show's television broadcast next month, or in any marketing materials.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fashion; headdress; menwearvsnotwomen
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To: KosmicKitty

“Put on a hijab. That I’d like to see!!”

In Australia, some of the lads are donning burkas & niqab veils as a pushback joke. The muzzies go apoplectic. Check youtube.

Meanwhile the PC madness goes on. But there’s a huge backlash growing among those of us who used to think of ourselves as simply Americans who just happened to be white. Not talking Aryan Nations, but ethnic awareness as OK for every group except whites is now wearing extremely thin.


61 posted on 11/13/2012 8:17:36 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Venturer

62 posted on 11/13/2012 8:18:13 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s ‘cuase Cher looked like she was going on the whorepath.


63 posted on 11/13/2012 8:31:34 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Some of us Native Americans get offended by ignoramuses who can not tell a Sioux from a Ute getting to decide what offends us. As if we are all one monolithic group of people with monolithic opinions . . .
64 posted on 11/13/2012 8:33:01 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vaquero

She’s wearing a headdress?

Who would have known?


65 posted on 11/13/2012 8:33:52 AM PST by ArGee (Reality - what a concept.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Oh for heaven's sake this PC crap is getting tiresome! Look at this statement!

“When you see a Lakota chief wearing a full headdress, you know that he was a very honorable man. He was a leader. He did a lot of honorable things for his people,” said Michelle Spotted Elk, a Santa Cruz, Calif., woman of mixed heritage whose husband is Lakota. “It also has religious significance. With them, there's not a division between spirituality and their leadership.”

This is bunkum. Many Indians today have purchased a headdress with turkey feathers, not eagle feathers, to wear and for show off. They did NOT earn the feathers.

Eagle feathers were given for the most brutal actions in the inter-tribal wars of the high plains, namely killing men, women, children, capturing weapons, stealing horses. None were given for peaceful pursuits.

I remember when Leonid Brezhnev visited Oklahoma. Governor David Hall gave a headdress to USSR leader Leonid Brezhnev. He looked like an very uncomfortable Calvin Coolidge wearing it.

66 posted on 11/13/2012 8:36:32 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
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To: ArGee
LOL! That reminds me of the old Johnny Carson routine when he had Raquel Welch on his show with a sleek cat on her lap.

Welch asks Carson "Would you like to pet my pussy?"

Carson replies "I'd love to, but the cat is in the way,"

67 posted on 11/13/2012 8:39:50 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: onedoug

***Too skinny.***

That’s so you can rub your hands along her ribs and feel how...Uh, never mind.


68 posted on 11/13/2012 8:40:58 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

****Victoria’s Secret has apologized for putting a Native American-style headdress on a model for its annual fashion show,***

perhaps they would feel more comfortable with the Indian chief character from the British movie CARRY ON COWBOY!


69 posted on 11/13/2012 8:43:12 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Everyone used to love it back in the day when Cher donned the headdress.

She could get away with it since her mom was part Cherokee.

70 posted on 11/13/2012 8:44:19 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (political correctness is communist thought control, disguised as good manners)
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To: Wurlitzer

I want my Jose Jimenez, Steppin Fetchit, and Frito Bandito back!


71 posted on 11/13/2012 8:47:17 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I don’t know about the other items she is wearing but as for the headdress like medals awarded to soldiers for their accomplishments Indian warriors must earn their headdress. Many Indians view wearing a headdress the same way many here view someone wearing metals they did not earn. Some here will it is wrong to wear an American flag as clothing.


72 posted on 11/13/2012 8:47:30 AM PST by ThomasThomas
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To: ConservativeStatement

“I read an article in the USA Today yesterday which used the term “scares white male(s)...” regarding a black president.”


Well USA Today should know this is one white man who voted twice for a REAL American who happened to be all black, Alan Keyes. As a REAL American, myself, I vote for ideas not pigment.

What we have now, is a half breed and I’ll leave it up to anyone who wants to go out on a limb and tell us if it is his white or black half that is so evil.

In reality it is neither. The fault lies with his commie loving slut of a mother who made sure this POS was surrounded by American hating commies during his formative years.

Interesting how the group known to play the race card most often plays the offended card with almost the same frequency and unfortunately, way too many white people flinch.


73 posted on 11/13/2012 8:50:41 AM PST by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

have we become a nation not worth saving?

an election is stolen, yet we see generals on the stage with eggs galore being thrown at them.

is this the true Victoria’s Secret? has society devolved us into a bunch of mushy nothingness with no scruples, morals much less common sense.

we’re the Hopi elders right? will anyone in the cavalry even be on guard or will they be tuned into the show?

Rome fell for a heckuva lot less.. but no less dramatically. In the end, it turned on its own generals and peoples and paid the ultimate price.

We are what we were and remain. Human, subject to physical worlds that are filled with spiritual boundaries and temptations no man could resist before the fall, and some folks are worried about a headdress.


74 posted on 11/13/2012 9:01:02 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: ConservativeStatement
[...] after the outfit was criticized as a display of ignorance toward tribal culture and history.

Since when is displaying ignorance worthy of criticism?

Would dressing up the model in, e.g., typical Bavarian Lederhosen, "Jankerl," and Tyrolean hat (i.e. traditional men's clothing) have been equally offensive, and thus also villified?

Actually, I doubt that Victoria's Secret is ignorant of the fact that "squaws" weren't allowed to wear such headresses, etc. Thus, it was not a display of ignorance, but rather an intentional subversion of what Victoria's Secret definitely knows about Indian culture and history.

Regards,

75 posted on 11/13/2012 9:01:39 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Bump for later


76 posted on 11/13/2012 9:48:00 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: altsehastiin

I don’t see what the problem is here. They are just celebrating “diversity”.


77 posted on 11/13/2012 10:05:27 AM PST by AmericanSamurai
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To: ConservativeStatement

Such complaints are a sure sign of a loser culture. Accomplished groups don’t worry about such nonsense.


78 posted on 11/13/2012 10:14:47 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Its finally happened. The parasites can out vote the productive. Welcome to bankruptcy.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Usually, it is just white liberals pretending to be offended by these American Indians cultural references. For example, the Indians I know would all approve of the buckskin bikini.

In this case, though, the headdress might be seen as an equivalent of a Medal of Honor, so mocking what it stands for is somewhat offensive to people of good character.


79 posted on 11/13/2012 11:12:11 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant
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To: ConservativeStatement

If it isn’t the bitchin’ blacks or hispanics, then the injuns are on the warpath. Aw, did somebody’s widdle feelings get hurt? I’m sick of it. Grow some thicker skin people! Just damn.


80 posted on 11/13/2012 12:38:21 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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