Mannequins...

While browsing through the New York Times, I came across an interesting, yet somewhat, wierd article on mannequins of which I decided to make a blog post upon as it relates to my big question in a way. Creepy, cold, and of tough plastic, mannequins have been a staple within stores and other presentations across the world. In the article, Horyn presents an interesting question. Have we, as a society, become a group full of mannequins? "By using the generic-looking mannequins, stores seem to want to erase the issue of race and ethnic identity — as much as blogs now serve to highlight these distinctions." Some spend their lives maintaining themselves thru cosmetics, fashions, and surgeries while the rest of society watches in amazement. The idea of mannequins as a whole express the values society has gained throughout the years. They make people wish for an impossible ideal, in regards to weight and expensive clothing that people view as a goal to aim for and a shape or appearance to obtain or maintain. Throughout the years, mannequins have grown increasingly thin, expensive, and a bit abstract thus reflecting that people too are possibly tryin to head in that same direction. Values in society have seemd to change where people can never be happy with themselves anymore thus causing people to constantly "enhance" their appearance through fashion and such and to keep attempting to pursue the unattainable because of the message of trying to fit the mold of perfection and essentially outrival everyone else.