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22-02-2012
Message in a Mini-Dress
My colleague Elissa Strauss, in this Sisterhood post, asks why I focused on the way author Deborah Feldman is dressed in recent press photos promoting her memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots.As Elissa notes, I wrote in my Sisterhood post that Feldman seems somehow immature, that in photos she looks like nothing so much as one of the 13-year-old girls I see on the bat mitzvah circuit who wear super-high heels and super-short dresses. These girls look like they are playing a sexy version of dress-up.Elissa observes, correctly, that Feldman is dressed no differently than countless other young women today, including herself, and writes: Never did it occur to me, and I assume, to many of them, that dressing like this in 2012 would cause anyone to think of us as childish and therefore take us less seriously.
Elissa continues: Your assessment of Feldman did tap into some of the same fears about a woman's body and how it should be hid, to some degree or another, in order for the world to take us seriously Why bring in the skinny jeans?I understand Elissa's point, but it is not quite the one I was attempting to make in my post about Feldman and Unorthodox.It's true that I described the way Feldman was dressed when trying to convey my sense that she is, in some way, immature. But I really got that impression, at least in part, from the way she poses in the photos, and the expressions on her face, and the way she is holding her cigarette in one of the pictures. There is something in them that conveys to me that this is not a woman who is centered and confident.
I wasn't making any general point about grown women who wear sparkly mini-dresses or skinny jeans (which I wear myself. The jeans, I mean). Or to suggest that women who dress that way ought to be taken less seriously. There is a discussion that could be continued about the messages sent by what we choose to wear, since of course everything about the way we present ourselves sends messages, whether they are intended or not.
Rachel McAdams dresses ten years younger than boyfriend Michael Sheen as the pair enjoy a low-key pizza date
They share a 10-year age gap and it somewhat showed in their wardrobe choices today.While Michael Sheen looked ever the 43-year-old dapper Welshman gentleman in a pair of tan trousers, a navy coat and flat cap, his leading lady Rachel McAdams went for a more youthful choice.The 33-year-old Vow star slipped into a pair of bright orange jeans paired with a black puffer jacket as the pair grabbed some take-away pizza in Toronto.The pair who strike a darling couple on the red carpet at premieres, often avoid Hollywood at all other times to play house in McAdams' home city of Toronto.
And they are obviously grateful to finally be spending some time with each other following McAdams promotional tour of her latest film The Vow.Last week they were pictured kissing one another as they walked down the street.'Michael and I never spend more than three weeks apart - we rack up a lot of air miles - but you have to be quite adaptable in this business whether you are in a relationship or not,' McAdams told Stella Magazine recently.'Trying to establish roots somewhere is a bit of a joke. You need to trust each other and be able to talk to each other and be best friends.'
Rachel added that she was thankful that she and Sheen developed a strong friendship before becoming romantically involved, and waited until after filming Midnight in Paris to become romantic.'Michael and I didn't get together while we were filming Midnight In Paris, Before the Dresses, the Ideas which I feel strongly about not doing when I'm working,' she revealed.'We became quite good friends, which I think is a great way to start. I felt very blessed to have made a Woody Allen film in Paris together.'
