{"id":3901,"date":"2020-03-03T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T07:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2020-03-04T00:11:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:11:32","slug":"a-crime-of-fashion-the-worst-part-of-moda-was-having-to-put-the-models-down-after-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/03\/a-crime-of-fashion-the-worst-part-of-moda-was-having-to-put-the-models-down-after-the-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Part of MODA Was Having to Put the Models Down after the Show\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

People say to us all the time, \u201cMODA is so great,\u201d \u201cMODA is so original,\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re so brave for designing clothes,\u201d \u201cWe could never wear clothes like you do\u201d \u2014 we know. But so much more goes on behind the scenes. You\u2019ve got your typical fashion show rituals, like eating paper and water for two days before the event. You\u2019ve also got some more progressive traditions, like sacrificing a male virgin as opposed to a female one. But, at the end of the day, the most harrowing thing we have to do as the MODA board is put down all of the models at the end of the show.<\/span><\/p>\n

You see, while we put on the facade of being creative, hip types, we\u2019re all really just econ majors who like to wear bright colors. As such, we know how costly high overhead costs can be to any organization on a tight budget. The models, while undeniably crucial to the success of our event, constitute a sunk cost to us: we recoup none of our money by keeping them around post-show, so we must do the difficult job of putting them down, one-by-one, after the last \u201cgo OFF, queen!\u201d is yelled by someone holding a cracked iPhone, but such is fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know it\u2019s the job we signed up for, but sometimes, when you\u2019re putting the models down (while making searing, unforgiving, and unforgetting eye contact) after a great show, you can start to feel a little down. You can even get attached if you\u2019re not too careful. It\u2019s particularly hard when it\u2019s one of your friends \u2014 but then again, they were the ones who said they\u2019d do anything to feel pretty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Every year we tell the models: \u201cyou know, this is a difficult job, there\u2019s more to modelling than wearing our gorgeous rubber plaid and velcro turtlenecks \u2014 we\u2019re gonna charge people to see you walk through the fanciest basement in Bridgeport, and you\u2019ll die at the end.\u201d And they say, \u201cdid you say Bridgeport?\u201d. The price for fashion is steep, but those who are willing to pay the ultimate price do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, as in any operation, accidents happen. Say, for example, that my friend Tynnifer trips while wearing a one of a kind pair of velour high-heelys (high-heeled heelys). We all know how difficult it is to schedule a Student Health visit, and \u2014 knowing that most models never recover from injuries on the track \u2014 we must go on-stage, midshow, and deliver the lethal injection. Sometimes, you can\u2019t help but feel like there must be another way to do this as you see the life leaving from your first college friend\u2019s eyes, but the greek chorus\u2019s scream of \u201cyasss, slayyy queen!\u201d snaps you back to reality and you remember that this is the only way.<\/span><\/p>\n

The humanitarians and economists in all of us have gone back and forth on this policy. Why treat the models like racehorses? Why not use real horses instead? People ask fewer questions when you put down a horse, right? These are all good questions, but the fact remains that people wear clothes and horses don\u2019t. Ergo, we must kill people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Image Courtesy of B&H<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People say to us all the time, \u201cMODA is so great,\u201d \u201cMODA is so original,\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re so brave for designing clothes,\u201d \u201cWe could never wear clothes like you do\u201d \u2014 we know. But so much more goes on behind the scenes. You\u2019ve got your typical fashion show rituals, like eating paper and water for two days before the event. You\u2019ve also got some more progressive traditions, like sacrificing a male virgin as opposed to a female one. But, at the end of the day, the most harrowing thing we have to do as the MODA board is put down all of the models at the end of the show. You see, while we put on the facade of being creative, hip types, we\u2019re all really just econ majors who like to wear bright colors. As such, we know how costly high overhead costs can be to any organization on a tight budget. The models, while undeniably crucial to the success of our event, constitute a sunk cost to us: we recoup none of our money by keeping them around post-show, so we must do the difficult job of putting them down, one-by-one, after the last \u201cgo OFF, queen!\u201d is yelled by someone holding a cracked iPhone, but such is fashion. I know it\u2019s the job we signed up for, but sometimes, when you\u2019re putting the models down (while making searing, unforgiving, and unforgetting eye contact) after a great show, you can start to feel a little down. You can even get attached if you\u2019re not too careful. It\u2019s particularly hard when it\u2019s one of your friends \u2014 but then again, they were the ones who said they\u2019d do anything to feel pretty.\u00a0 Every year we tell the models: \u201cyou know, this is a difficult job, there\u2019s more to modelling than wearing our gorgeous rubber plaid and velcro turtlenecks \u2014 we\u2019re gonna charge people to see you walk through the fanciest basement in Bridgeport, and you\u2019ll die at the end.\u201d And they say, \u201cdid you say Bridgeport?\u201d. The price for fashion is steep, but those who are willing to pay the ultimate price do so. Of course, as in any operation, accidents happen. Say, for example, that my friend Tynnifer trips while wearing a one of a kind pair of velour high-heelys (high-heeled heelys). We all know how difficult it is to schedule a Student Health visit, and \u2014 knowing that most models never recover from injuries on the track \u2014 we must go on-stage, midshow, and deliver the lethal injection. Sometimes, you can\u2019t help but feel like there must be another way to do this as you see the life leaving from your first college friend\u2019s eyes, but the greek chorus\u2019s scream of \u201cyasss, slayyy queen!\u201d snaps you back to reality and you remember that this is the only way. The humanitarians and economists in all of us have gone back and forth on this policy. Why treat the models like racehorses? Why not use real horses instead? People ask fewer questions when you put down a horse, right? These are all good questions, but the fact remains that people wear clothes and horses don\u2019t. Ergo, we must kill people. Image Courtesy of B&H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}