An e-commerce website apparently laughed in the face of the body-positive soap bottle movement when it decided to advertise plus-size tights in the most body-negative way imaginable: by stretching them out over models’ entire bodies to demonstrate their size.
As People notes, product images on wish.com (a company that sells Chinese-manufactured products to American customers) show thin models wearing the $2 plus-size tights. In one picture, a woman stretches out the tights over her hands; in another, the model is photographed with both of her legs in just one pantyhose leg. And of course, there’s also an image of a model with the tights up to her eyes, looking out as if to say “peekaboo.”
Maybe next time just have women they fit wear them the normal way? Check out the images along with a few of social media’s reactions below. Do you guys see anything wrong with the images or is the internet over reacting?
How Wish advertise tights for plus size women hahahaha. pic.twitter.com/ABF31GTV6G
— Gaz Phizmas (@Phiz_Bomb) December 5, 2017
And another one. She's stood in one leg ? pic.twitter.com/eWAbREcQWQ
— Gaz Phizmas (@Phiz_Bomb) December 5, 2017
