Can anyone tell me why?

Most of our group are intelligent, thinking women. We may be a little on the weird side occasionally, but on the whole we consider we're well balanced. 

A couple of us have been around for a "while" and a couple of us have yet to taste the spoils of success (whatever one may define as success); each of us feels fulfilled and contented at this point in time. But we all smile - a lot, every day. At each other, at what we do, and at times we even laugh at ourselves.

We got to talking over morning coffee yesterday about the angry, hostile, arrogant, smouldering, pouty looks of today's young models. In the newspapers and the women's magazines. They stomp and stamp, they march (even frog-march), they treat the catwalk as their anger-management counsellor. If they could, they look as though they would throw themselves on the floor and give us two minute tantrums just like a 2 year old! And for what reason?

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Does glowering at the audience make their garments more attractive? Does it make them more attractive? And if so, to whom?

What's wrong with a smile? Is there something inherently "bad" about showing the world, from the catwalk and the pages of magazines, that they love what they're doing, that they love what they're wearing, that they want YOU to love what they're wearing?

Because this anger and hostility and arrogance shows itself reflected in the faces of too many young (and older for that matter) women who walk down our streets, who shop in our malls, and who pass us as we walk by. It seems as though it is considered to be normal.

But in our dealings with women a number of them have actually said they won't even say hello or greet people who glare with such distaste - it's almost as though they are at war with the world, with other women and indeed themselves.  

And if you think that models have "always" looked sullen, then look at some of our models of yesteryear - OK perhaps inthe magazines they hadn't thrown their heads back and laughed out loud, but they certainly allowed their inner beauty to show.  Their professionalism extended to displaying a fascination in the beautiful garments they wore and seemed proud of their profession.   In candid photos, even on the catwalks, they were known to smile and occasionally flirt with the audience.   That in itself, drew the audience into the whole picture and fashion shows for the every-day woman allowed her to imagine how she would look in similar garments.   Because of the variety of paper pattern providers, many of those garments were then translated into affordable garments for every woman.

Any opinions?

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