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Is it still "Blue Collar" if it's fur?

Eagle-Eyed Frocktalk tipster Lisa pointed this article out to me today.  It’s from our friends over at Jezebel, who put their spin on this article from Slate.  The Slate article complains about beautiful Hollywood stars trying (and failing) to look working class in movies.  I must warn you, not all the content in the articles is particularly nice or flattering to costume designers, but I think it’s important that we read these articles and think about these issues.  Slate went so far as to post a slideshow about the subject HERE.  Clearly no one at Slate has designed costumes for a movie, because if they had, they certainly would know what it feels like to receive five pages of notes from studio executives asking to make the actress look “less schlumpy” and “more attractive”, even though she is working class, blue collar, to’ up from the flo’ up, and dirt poor.  Of particular interest (to me anyway), are the comments on these articles.  Check it out, and let the discussion begin!

** UPDATE!!! - I wrote a letter to Sadie Stein, the author of the Jezebel article!  Read it after the jump! **

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