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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: ConservativeStatement

Somebody wore a headdress???


21 posted on 11/13/2012 7:24:14 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Hope and Change has become Attack and Obfuscate.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Crossway breezer


22 posted on 11/13/2012 7:24:34 AM PST by daku
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To: Vaquero
Here's a double shot:


23 posted on 11/13/2012 7:25:26 AM PST by ConservativeStatement (Smile on Dems: Ignorance is bliss.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

All it takes is for one person to claim “racism” and everything is shut-down.

Ridiculous. I know quite a few “native Americans.” They are proud of their heritage and see it as a compliment that teams will be named after Indian warriors, or that people will wear “Indian” style clothing.


24 posted on 11/13/2012 7:25:46 AM PST by PGR88
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To: frithguild

Ah...”The Return of Bald Eagle”: My favorite episode of F-Troop.

Regards,


25 posted on 11/13/2012 7:26:04 AM PST by VermiciousKnid (Sic narro nos totus!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Did they also apologize for kicking the military out of a NY barracks because they wanted to do a photo shoot right after the hurricane?


26 posted on 11/13/2012 7:26:59 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I used to work an IT contract at the Foxwoods casino run by the Mash. Pequot Trube in Ledyard, Connecticut. The girls who served the drinks in the slot machine areas all wore a turquoise (or similar) mini-dress with matching heels, and a headband with one feather. The girls were all anglo, and hired for their pleasant countenance and ability to make nice with the customers as much as their ability to handle a tray of drinks. If they can mock their own like that for a buck, what’s the problem?


27 posted on 11/13/2012 7:27:13 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Vaquero

Only a diseased mind could have a problem with that!


28 posted on 11/13/2012 7:29:16 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (There goes the dominoes...)
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To: PapaBear3625

She definitely needs some sammich on those bones.


29 posted on 11/13/2012 7:29:50 AM PST by Thane_Banquo ( Walker 2016)
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To: ConservativeStatement

She was wearing a headdress???


30 posted on 11/13/2012 7:31:43 AM PST by NonValueAdded ("Our president ... makes big speeches packed full of little ideas" Charles C. W. Cooke)
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To: Born to Conserve

Violent Savages??? You mean those peaceful, Gaia worshiping, environmentalist stewards of the land??? Who only sometimes ate each other, warred on each other, and practiced slavery and human sacrifice?


31 posted on 11/13/2012 7:33:49 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Redskins, Braves, Chiefs, Seminoles, Indians, feathers, tomahawks. Let's ban them all! Remove all Indians from movies, TV shows, and books. Never mention them again. Forget about them.
32 posted on 11/13/2012 7:33:54 AM PST by BO Stinkss
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To: ConservativeStatement

To quote a great Indian chief: “Nein, nein. Zeist est meshuggah.”


33 posted on 11/13/2012 7:35:31 AM PST by Redcloak ("...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.")
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To: BO Stinkss
Charlie Sheen's character would have to be Photoshopped to another team.


34 posted on 11/13/2012 7:39:00 AM PST by ConservativeStatement (Smile on Dems: Ignorance is bliss.)
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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.

Oh shut up and get over yourslef

(Not you Conservative statement, general comment on the article)

35 posted on 11/13/2012 7:39:32 AM PST by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: Cyman

Too skinny.


36 posted on 11/13/2012 7:40:44 AM PST by onedoug
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Yep, sonny this is sure enough Injun summer. Don’t know what that is, I reckon, do you? Well, that’s when all the homesick Injuns come back to play; You know, a long time ago, long afore yer granddaddy was born even, there used to be heaps of Injuns around here—thousands—millions, I reckon, far as that’s concerned. Reg’lar sure ‘nough Injuns—none o’ yer cigar store Injuns, not much. They wuz all around here—right here where you’re standin’.

Don’t be skeered—hain’t none around here now, leastways no live ones. They been gone this many a year.

They all went away and died, so they ain’t no more left.

But every year, ‘long about now, they all come back, leastways their sperrits do. They’re here now. You can see ‘em off across the fields. Look real hard. See that kind o’ hazy misty look out yonder? Well, them’s Injuns—Injun sperrits marchin’ along an’ dancin’ in the sunlight. That’s what makes that kind o’ haze that’s everywhere—it’s jest the sperrits of the Injuns all come back. They’re all around us now.

See off yonder; see them tepees? They kind o’ look like corn shocks from here, but them’s Injun tents, sure as you’re a foot high. See ‘em now? Sure, I knowed you could. Smell that smoky sort o’ smell in the air? That’s the campfires a-burnin’ and their pipes a-goin’.

Lots o’ people say it’s just leaves burnin’, but it ain’t. It’s the campfires, an’ th’ Injuns are hoppin’ ‘round ‘em t’beat the old Harry.

You jest come out here tonight when the moon is hangin’ over the hill off yonder an’ the harvest fields is all swimmin’ in the moonlight, an’ you can see the Injuns and the tepees jest as plain as kin be. You can, eh? I knowed you would after a little while.

Jever notice how the leaves turn red ‘bout this time o’ year? That’s jest another sign o’ redskins. That’s when an old Injun sperrit gits tired dancin’ an’ goes up an’ squats on a leaf t’rest. Why I kin hear ‘em rustlin’ an’ whisper in’ an’ creepin’ ‘round among the leaves all the time; an’ ever’ once’n a while a leaf gives way under some fat old Injun ghost and comes floatin’ down to the ground. See—here’s one now. See how red it is? That’s the war paint rubbed off’n an Injun ghost, sure’s you’re born.

Purty soon all the Injuns’ll go marchin’ away agin, back to the happy huntin’ ground, but next year you’ll see ‘em troopin’ back—th’ sky jest hazy with ‘em and their campfires smolderin’ away jest like they are now.”


37 posted on 11/13/2012 7:42:41 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: Vaquero

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/Ooo-eee.wav


38 posted on 11/13/2012 7:42:49 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Strange, how many groups which seem to have a problem competing with evil white men are so easily offended by just about anything.

I am sure you can think of at least 3 groups which fall into this category and there are many more.

Offended = noncompetitive


39 posted on 11/13/2012 7:44:45 AM PST by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Drop the Indian headdress

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


40 posted on 11/13/2012 7:45:00 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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