social media users for selling a "peasant
dress" for $375 (roughly #64,000).
Advertised on the site of New York-based
fashion label 6397, the dress is a kind of
formless long t-shirt with baggy sleeves.
It was brought to light when a Reddit user
posted a picture of the dress under the title
"Yeah, because I'm totally going to spend
$400 to look like a goddamn peasant".
Users were quick to criticise the dress, with
the top rated comment reading: "She looks
like a mental patient from a movie."
Many of the users commenting took
umbridge with the idea of poverty being
exploited in the name of fashion.
Some drew parallels to the Urban Outfitters
chain of stores, which sell drab looking
clothes for high prices, and who in their
mission statement described the target
audience as "upscale homeless".
Others made reference to the fashion
community's fascination with poverty and
homeless people, pointing out the popularity
of fashion designers like Vivienne Westwood,
who held a 2011 collection called "Homeless
Chic".
Vivienne Westwood's "Homeless Chic" fashion
show. Increasingly the fashion world has been
accused of exploiting poverty for designs.
Another comment read: "For that much
money I could just hire someone to beat up a
real peasant and take his/her clothes. And
then it would be an authentic oppressed
peasant shirt."
One pointed out the similarity between the
term "peasant dress" and the trend of pre-
ripped jeans.
They said: "Not to sound too much like the
parent who says, "who pays for jeans with
holes in them?"...but...who pays $400 for a
stretched out shirt?"
But the term "peasant dress" is not new - the
term is commonly used to describe a loose
fitting dress, most of the time with buttons
down the front of the dress, often with an
elasticated wasteband.- culled
Looks like a hospital gown to me... And for how much again????
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