topic Re: Foot posture in Q Talk

Foot posture

cwsj — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:16:00 GMT

I've noticed in the past 10-15 years celebrities and models have developed this habit of standing with their feet turned in. Its odd and not sure how it got started. I've noticed a few hosts have developed this habit recently when they didn't do this before. I don't know how or why this became "a thing". Is it just me that has noticed this phenomenon?

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Kachina624 — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:22:27 GMT

If I understand what you're talking about, I see Lori Goldstein standing like that much of the time. I've always heard that described as being pigeon-toed.

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Little Way — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:53:29 GMT

I have noticed this foot stance in some women's clothing catalogs. So I just googled this. The article said it helps you look thinner and it also makes you look less intimidating. The celebs want to be liked. They don't want you to think they are divas, so they stand like 5 year olds to make you like them. Ridiculous.

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Q4u — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:53:51 GMT

I guess it's better than that model's stance (not QVC) where it looks like they have to pee.... but yes Lori Goldstein's is extremely awkward and hard to watch.

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MoJoV — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 00:18:46 GMT

@Q4u wrote:
I guess it's better than that model's stance (not QVC) where it looks like they have to pee.... but yes Lori Goldstein's is extremely awkward and hard to watch.

@Q4u and that p. stance isn't just the models. I see alot of hosts on all the shopping channels do it. So odd looking. It's like they all got the memo to stand in that way. Not very flattering nor natural.

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froggy — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 00:39:27 GMT

Agree, it's like they don't want to look like mature women, but little girls. Celebrities do it also. Today's actresses can't compare to the beautuful actresses of yore.

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phoenixbrd — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 00:42:54 GMT

feet in = submissive, female, yin

feet out = assertive, male, yang

Don't shoot the messenger.

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Spurt — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 15:01:36 GMT

Or when you are trying to check the length of pants and the models are doing what I call "the flamingo stance"....with a foot raised up toe of the shoe pointed to the ground.....

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on the bay — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 01:12:49 GMT

It looks like they think its cute or something,

but its not.

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Cumbercookie13 — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 01:18:09 GMT

I always thought it was because of those extremely high heels they wear. It looks like they're digging into the floor to keep themselves standing up. I'd never think it was to look submissive and likeable. That's pretty sad and says a lot about societal attitudes.

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mimilucy — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 01:21:24 GMT

@phoenixbrd, sadly you are exactly right. I've known men who see that toes pointing inward toward each other as a sexual thing. 🤢

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insomniac2 — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 01:43:26 GMT

For decades, I was addicted to reading The Star and The Enquirer. (I finally stopped a year ago because I needed to straighten up my financial life.)

Anyway, as some of you may know, these tabloids feature celebrities, some real, many not. Emmy Rossum, who was in the movie version of "The Phantom of the Opera," was often pictured. She always stood with her toes pointed inward. I always thought it looked so crazy.

My point is, this has been going on for some time (with some people).

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froggy — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 01:42:34 GMT

@Cumbercookie13 wrote:
I always thought it was because of those extremely high heels they wear. It looks like they're digging into the floor to keep themselves standing up. I'd never think it was to look submissive and likeable. That's pretty sad and says a lot about societal attitudes.

No. It says a lot about the women doing the posturing.

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BirkiLady — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 03:10:07 GMT

@Q4u What you refer to as the "pee stance" is actually a ballerina pose and one of the first graceful moves taught to a professional model (even before walking the runway or turns). It shows the drapes of the clothing to perfection (especially when wearing a designer skirt or dress).

You won't see any models wearing LDO clothing standing with their feet inward. Louis Del'Olio wouldn't have a model stand like that! He IS a designer. Doubt

Lori Goldstein and Susan Graver are both wanna-be designers. They both stand pigeon-toed. Neither of them have enough class to stand upright like a lady. But they are also jumping around, interrupting and loud voices. Their behavior on air speaks volumes about how well mannered either one of those females are.

Several QVC hosts are also guilty of the same thing (including poor posture and stance). They should have been taught at home. Or, at least in Host Training. It's lazy and unattractive.

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libbyannE — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 20:54:24 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
If I understand what you're talking about, I see Lori Goldstein standing like that much of the time. I've always heard that described as being pigeon-toed.

I have seen that in the past. Not watching much anymore. She ends up looking anything but cool and confident, but I wouldn’t feel cool and confident in those clothes, either! I figured that her body language indicated that she wasn’t really that thrilled with what she was selling!

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Sooner — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 04:33:38 GMT

@phoenixbrd wrote:
feet in = submissive, female, yin
feet out = assertive, male, yang

Don't shoot the messenger.

Foot in air aimed at someone's behind = agressive female

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CalminHeart — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 12:03:13 GMT

Women have enough equality issues without intentionally making themselves look submissive.

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Caaareful Shopper — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 12:55:00 GMT

A friend of mine who modeled for a short while was told to stand like that for spontaneous/unscripted photos because it makes them look skinnier. Standing that way creates “thigh gap” that women in the public crave — anything to make them look as thin as possible. The more separation of the thighs, the thinner their entire figure looks. It’s usually only done by women who are already a size 2 or 0, but they do anything to reaffirm it all the time for the camera.

That bend end of the knee stance is also a way to separate the legs to show as much thinness as possible. It’s just deemed in modeling as more attractive. Men and women in the public pose for photos like this. It does work.

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grooms — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 16:18:16 GMT

To me that is not as bad as JT and the poses she does with her feet and body....she thinks she is a model - NOT - between her and SG thinking they are the cats meow - I immediately change channels and would NEVER buy what they sell! Just my opinion

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Q4u — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 20:21:27 GMT

This is actually really funny to me because I was born with something going on with my left tibia under my knee. Not knowing that I couldn't help my left foot turning inward and looking "pigeon toed" my Mom would constantly remind me to turn my foot out!! It wasn't until I had to have surgery on that knee did they know that I also had a broken (and then healed) tibia that didn't heal right. During that surgery they fixed everything and I no longer turned my foot inward!! After all that, I really appeciate my "normal" stance and really don't want to see people stand in this way ON PURPOSE.... just seems wrong to me....