Lovelyish

see, i’m kinda weird, but normally when i see models on clothing websites, i’m looking at the clothes, not wondering if they’re having a good day today.

No, they’re supposed to be ironic.

Most of them just look calm to me.

But I laughed at the hipster stereotype you added in at the end.

perhaps they were given the theme to look depressed?

I don’t even go by UO anymore because the whole store is just…blah.

i’d like to see the white teeth they probably pay so much for. 

Hmm…I’m neutral on the smiling issue.  Actually I kind of like artsy scowls.  What I do not like are those godforsaken hipster glasses.  Maybe I should ask my grandpa if I can borrow his reading glasses and then I’ll be cool too. *eye roll*

If I owned a store, I would have models that looked like fun. It might make people want to buy the clothes more.

I’d be more inclined to buy their clothing if their models looked happy.

@firemonkiesofhell@xanga - if i owned a store, id reward my models with popsicles, because i love popsicles and im pretty sure a lot of people do too!

Maybe they’re sad because little kids in foreign countries made these outfits for 1 cent an hour and they’re now being sold for 1000x that… assholes

@SaMoAnTeiNe00@xanga - Haha, no kidding!

@ribbonsxnxlace@xanga - I love popsicles!  And models could eat them because they only have about 40 calories

they cant even model.. they just stand there? what talent

@needmoreink@xanga - you should model for me then! as soon as i get a store…and buy popsicles

They were probably forced to model.

life sucks as a model… i look that way when im hungry too

I’d wear a scowl if I were flat-chested and forced to wear a bustier like the model in the 5th picture.  Or if I were flat-chested, period.

They just look so…bored. 

@swedishmilk@xanga - small boobs are awesome too

lolz.  I love you, Jessica.

“Cheer up, hipster ladies! Maybe your boyfriend will take you to hear his band play in Brooklyn after he gets off work at Applebee’s.” HAHAHAHA

I appreciated that line greatly. Thanks for the post!

Haha, I often wondered the same thing!  Facial expression aside, the poses also tend to be that half-slouching, bored pose, or the I’ve-got-a-neck-crick pose.  They’re pretty girls though.

@Wait_by_Moonlight@xanga - i love you more!

I wouldn’t be too happy if I was just another twig wearing a piece of $50 tissue.

because that’s the look.. you have to pay a shit ton of money to look homeless. you have to look and act depressed to get the pills. hipsters -_-

who the fuckkk caresssss. 

I agree – but the last one looks so angry!

@shesakillerqueeen@xanga - hahahahahaha!

I wouldn’t have even noticed how much they’re frowning until you mentioned it. I’m buying the clothes, not the girl.

LMAO ownage. xD  aww i never really noticed their sad sad expressions before o_o.

@SaMoAnTeiNe00@xanga - yeah that’s probably it. assholes indeed!

@shesakillerqueeen@xanga - I must be weird, too.
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Maybe they were being told that if they didn’t hurry up look fierce and frown with their eyes they’d be forced to eat meat and it wouldn’t be organic and possibly grade D meat.

are models ever really happy though? was looking through magazines in the doctors and could only pick out about 5 girls over 78 pages who were actually pretty.

not sure their poses or clothes make them feel too good though. mind you thinking about that money makes me wana smile! lucky them.. the rest of us can mope like that and get paid a fraction of their wages

sorry for rant!

i mean, they’re modeling. it’s not a sears catalog. 

They’re too hungry to crack a smile.

I’m gonna go out right now and buy a buncha UO so I can not have fun! I’m just way too excited and this is much cheaper than my bipolar meds!!

Hipsters aren’t made in a happy mode.

@ribbonsxnxlace@xanga - I agree, but maybe brownies.

LOL

i hate hipsters so i’m glad they’re miserable. 

I honestly can’t stand a thing you post.

it’s not about the models, it’s about the clothes

maybe they are just hungry?

LOL. This was a great post, I’d give more than 2 eProps if I could.

I laughed at the commentary of the post.

‘Artsy scowls’ ftw.

if they weren’t doing it as a gimmick, then maybe it wouldn’t bug me. i usually just look at the clothes though, but i have had the same thought in passing a time or two.

Uh, they’re told to pose in a certain way. Blame the photographer(s), not the models.

Urban Outfitters is my favorite,
the models can look however the photographer likes. I’m looking at the clothes,
not to see whether the models are having a good day or not.

Who really cares? I mean, Forever 21 doesn’t have models that are smiling really (from what I noticed) along with American Apparel. It’s just how people model…

Hmm…show me some happy looking models…

That’s what I thought.

I love urban, I think their models look calm and chill.

dude…come on…it’s Urban Outfitters not Limited Too. the last thing they’re gonna sport is some cheesy fake preppy smile hahah

4th girl down, wtf. she’s all humpy -.-

Hahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHA.  While I looked at these photos and the models’ expressions i could just hear the “wahhh waaaaahhh” trumpet in my head…soo SAD =(  hahahah

“Cheer up, hipster ladies! Maybe your boyfriend will take you to hear his band play in Brooklyn after he gets off work at Applebee’s.”

ROFL. That was a WIN!

I’d be depressed too if someone dressed me in the reject clothes of 1976

SMILE, DARN YA, SMILE!

Agreed!  How is this considered “modeling?”

I like UO…. so…. I just look at the clothing not at the models.

P.S They’re clothes aren’t hipster… but  whatever. I like them. They’re syle isn’t any different from Forever 21 or modcloth.com…… even though mod cloth is way better.

@mminimumm@xanga - my boyfriend’s little sister models for them & they are told to look & stand that way. I dont think that they lack talent bc of that.

they looked bored. i want to see happy cheery people in the clothes.

The first girl is really really pretty….. but UO is just too expensive. 

they’re depressed because they haven’t eaten in 2 years.

calm, monotoned… not so much depressed (for most of these pictures)

Idk. I like them better than the CRAZY looking models that most other place have.

They’re too cool to care, duhhh

They’re depressed because they haven’t ate anything in months.

this is stupid.

maybe they just need some food

This really isn’t anything new. How many times have you seen couture models grin on camera or on the runway? Just because it’s not high-fashion, people expect the girls to smile pretty like they’re in a JCPenny’s catalog and not on a “hipster” brand’s website. It’s all about the image the company is trying to give off. This is obviously what works for U.O..

I suppose it’s all irony.

@proudsmartypants@xanga - HAHAHAHA that definitely made my day! so true!

that last one looks hilarious hahahahaha is that supposed to be a sexy face?

maybe they pick girls who can’t model and that’s why they tell them to look away.

maybe I should model for them, then! hahaha