I work as a customer service representative for ideeli.com. Ideeli is an online store for women’s clothing. Below is an email I received today:
“I am a 38 year old white male your product line does not interest me but I thought you should know that when you ad comes up on the side of my screne it looks like the girl has one leg and that is a bit disturbing at a quick slice. This is putting a negative association with your name. good day.”
This is how I responded
“Hi Corey,
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with us. As much as we
appreciate your concern with our ad we find it odd and a bit offensive
that you consider limbless people “disturbing”. Why would it be wrong or
disturbing to have a one legged model? How do you know that the model in
question isn’t in fact legless?
Clearly you are not in the know when it comes to today’s fashion because
one legged models are currently all of the rage. Calvin Klein, Tommy
Hilfiger, Christian Audigier, they all use one legged models. Some of
them only have the left leg, some of them only have the right, it
doesn’t matter, they are a hot commodity regardless.
I was actually a model at one point. I unfortunately had to fall back on
my costumer service degree because I was having a hard time finding
work. Guess why? I got both legs.
Good day”
