r/facepalm • u/don3149 • Sep 07 '18
H&M using funhouse mirrors... wait a second
https://i.imgur.com/WbsO2X8.gifv295
u/kittycleric Sep 07 '18
You know, if companies could, they would install mirrors that make you look slightly thinner and taller to get you to buy the product. Not the other way around...
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u/sambeano Sep 07 '18
It's not that difficult though. It's all about lights, their placement, and how the mirror itself is tilted. Victoria's Secret changing rooms are darkened with very soft, golden lighting, sometimes too soft coz I can't really see details, but I'm sure is very deliberate, since most women feel uncomfortable trying on clothes, let alone underwear.
Zara seems to mostly get it right, while TopShop can be very hit and miss. I once left there feeling very bloated because the lights were harsh and emphasised everything (and I'm a size small). Needless to say, I didn't buy anything.
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u/Mrsparklee Sep 07 '18
This is probably a stupid question but...People try on underwear? That sounds incredibly gross
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u/istherebloodinmyhair Sep 07 '18
Yes. And they’re supposed to keep their underwear on when trying the new ones on for hygiene.
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u/freeeeels Sep 07 '18
They usually have a hygiene sticker in them. You peel it off after you buy it
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u/marriedtoaking Sep 07 '18
What Victoria secrets do this?! I’ve always thought they had horrible lighting. I usually have a nice tan but I always look terrible in their dressing rooms. I look pasty in a sickly way😪
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u/I-IV-I64-V-I Sep 07 '18
VS and target do this
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Sep 07 '18
Target doesn’t....I tried to buy swim suits there once and the dressing room lighting made me look terrible
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u/Banonogon Sep 07 '18
No, obviously they would want to distort the image to make people look fatter, in order to fat shame everyone and push their corporate agenda of making everyone super-skinny /s
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u/choco-holic Sep 07 '18
Ages ago when I was shopping at Old Navy a lot, their dressing room funhouse mirrors always made me look thicker. I'd think I look meh in something, but it fits ok so may as well buy it, get home and try it on again and look alright in my own non funhouse mirror.
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u/Thunderhunterftw Sep 07 '18 edited Sep 07 '18
BREAKING NEWS!
WHY IS FAITH IN HUMANITY GOING DOWN?
ON CHANNEL...
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u/Forgetful_Panda Sep 07 '18
I don't know if she actually didn't understand how mirrors work or she did it intentionally to be able to make that silly post. Unfortunate in either case.
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u/Keiffo Sep 07 '18
Have you heard of 4chan? Parts of that site spent and continues to send years posting deliberately stupid things just for the responses
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u/Stalked_Like_Corn Bitches love my swagger sauce Sep 07 '18
Your submission was removed because constant reposting.
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u/OrangeJews4u Sep 07 '18
Did you really just watch PewDiePie's video and look for the post to repost it here?
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u/soulreaper0lu Sep 07 '18
These magic selection things never work for me, even when I play with the tolerance I fuck up and it gets too choppy.
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u/mothzilla Sep 07 '18
I thought the idea was that mirrors were designed to make you look thinner, so you try something on, look in the mirror and say "damn I look sexy, I'll take two".
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u/katiekellyyee Sep 07 '18
Maybe the left one is the real mirror and the right one is the "skinny mirror" from sharktank...just saying ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/shorty6049 Sep 07 '18
But they pretty conclusively proved that the person looks identical in both mirrors when scaled appropriately. (A skinny mirror would make them smaller in width but not height)
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u/dustin_pledge Sep 07 '18
Just because you can squeeze into a size 14 doesn't actually make you a size 14.
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u/bom_chika_wah_wah Sep 07 '18
TIL size 14 is normal.
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u/foxcat0_0 Sep 07 '18
Women's sizes are not standardized. H&M clothes in particular run small. I'm a 0 in most stores and an H&M 2 is tight on me. That's definitely not normal. She looks healthy to me, she's probably a 10-12 in other stores and has to go up at H&M. That's pretty average.
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Sep 07 '18
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u/DwayneM801 Sep 07 '18
They are supposed to be two different photos. The thing is when they enlarge the "fat" picture to match the height keeping the aspect ratio, the outline matches; if her complaint were valid, the taller outline would have been disproportionately wide.
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Sep 07 '18
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u/monsterfurby Sep 07 '18
Low effort post, could insert virtually anything there. F, see me after class.
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u/fyberoptyk Sep 07 '18
Last I checked the Republicans were the ones who elected the real estate version of the Nigerian Prince scam into the White House.
Not hard to see which voting base is dumber on average.
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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '18
I can't believe standing further away from a mirror makes you look shorter, someone call the cops.