Body Image

In the ad that I choose to write about, is of a young girl sitting in front of a mirror with a picture from a magazine of some one famous on her lap, with makeup on the floor beside her. She has her hair braided and pulled up in in a bun and her hands gentle placed on the bottom of her chin. She looks like she is trying to be like the person in the magazine "Glamorous". We all look at ads and tv commercials and see the men and women, how fit they are and if we could only be like them. The ads make us believe that if we want to be perfect like the men and women in the there ads we need to buy the workout videos, the the face cremes and the hair products they are selling. We look at Movie stars and see them as untouchable that nothing can hurt them. Our kids use Atheletes, Actors, Actress, and anybody that they see on tv or in a magazine, to idiolize. We as parents need to show our children that the people they should strive to be, is a respectable person not one of wealth.

sisley

I personally do not care for the ad. If i was reading a magazine and read it i would just ignore it, i would not buy any clothing from that company because i do not believe in what they are trying to show. What the girls are doing has nothing to do with clothes, very pointless. I dont understand how a company would believe that this is an effective way to advertise. These days anything you say or do that may be the slightest bit offensive, you are going to have many people that resent you

Zippo Add

The main focus in this add is a big hand holding up one of the new Zippo lighters. The add is set up so you are looking from behind the lighter like you are holding the lighter. Inthe backround there is a huge crowd of people like at a rock show. They look like they are cheering and going crazy over the lighter. In the corner of the add there is a ticket that looks like a concert ticket telling u about Zippos website. The add is giving the message that if you dont have this lighter your not cool.

Why Would They Think This Was Okay?

This ad is so obviously just - wrong.

So, why would the company, and the advertisers, think it was a good idea? Why would they think they could not only get away with it, but actually use it to sell their product?

barbjlocke

These girls look stoned on sniffing clothes. Stupid ad. Seems to be no end to what these companies will do to sell and make big bucks.

WTF!!!

How is it that our society as a whole let these huge almost godley advertising corporations get away with ads like this. Stop and think like a thirteen year old or maybe your child looking at this picture. What do you think is going thru their minds looking at this? I know it makes me think its ok to get high and dress slutty. The youth of today is hugely influenced by this explicit advertising and im sickened to think that my daughter or son will fall helplessly to influences of something like this. Something has got to be done to lesson the amount of stereotypical bullsh$$ that these rich pigs put out.

Fashion Kills

I think this ad is very suggestive in many ways. What does clothing have to do with cocaine? Why do the advertising company feel that this would appeal to a consumer? I myself would propbably not purchase anything from this vendor only because I dont agree with the way they advertised there product.