Hey, I haven't seen a good rant in a while... and this ain't gonna be one, maybe...
But I do have this itch, at least that's what I'm calling it, and if I vent it here, maybe I'll get past it without scratching.
I picked up the latest Vogue Italia. Now I realize most of you don't read it, can't find it on the newstand, and don't really give a #$%& about it. Besides it's about $20 an issue, ridiculous!
But anyway, I lugged the thing home, all 8 pounds of it, and started going through it. The lead story is a long fashion spread by Steven Meisel called Make Love, Not War. Now remember this is an Italian fashion magazine.
Anyway, the main spread is set in what appears to be a forward fire base in Vietnam with American GI's. Why do I say that? Well, 101st Airborne is kinda specific, and the mud (lots of it!) looks like you'd expect to see in 'Nam.
The fashions are on the requisite delectable young ladies who are shown cavorting with the GI's, often in clinches with them, and in several shots topless.
My itch is that somehow this just don't seem right. I haven't figured out just why yet... but I have a real strong suspicion this pictorial wouldn't play well in Dubuque.
But it's not in Dubuque, it's in an Italian fashion magazine trying to peddle a few frocks to the wealthy.
There are a hell of a lot of other places in the world that those frocks could have been photographed and nobody would give a damn. A lot of our troops died in that tragic fiasco.
So whaddo you think, am I off base here, does this not seem inappropriate? Or do you care?
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