{"id":50,"date":"2008-02-08T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/overdrive-on-valentines-advertising\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T07:30:12","slug":"overdrive-on-valentines-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/overdrive-on-valentines-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Overdrive on Valentine&#8217;s Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/mac.jpg\" alt=\"mac.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am currently being bombarded with a glut of Valentine&#8217;s advertising. This &#8220;special day&#8221; seems to hold far more commercial value that it upholds the sanctity of love! I&#8217;ve been told I need tights, underwear, chocolates and flowers in order to feel &#8220;truly&#8221; loved on February the 14th! there is also a huuuuge gap in the market for men on Valentine&#8217;s Day. I&#8217;m all for equality but the whole event is geared towards women (except for the possibility of seeing your loved one in some revealing underwear&#8230;if you buy it for them). What do you buy a man on Valentine&#8217;s Day? Plastic eye-patches? A colouring book? A cook book? It&#8217;s a toughy, as the are no traditionally accepted gifts. Anyway, rant over! One piece of commercialism that did take my fancy was the above &#8220;pout&#8221; ad from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maccosmetics.co.uk\/home.tmpl\" title=\"MAC cosmetics\" target=\"_blank\">MAC cosmetics<\/a>. Full of sexual inuendo, as all the ads have been but in a very stylised, almost ironic way. If I received more ads like this, I could even be persuaded to buy something&#8230;maybe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently being bombarded with a glut of Valentine&#8217;s advertising. This &#8220;special day&#8221; seems to hold far more commercial value that it upholds the sanctity of love! I&#8217;ve been told I need tights, underwear, chocolates and flowers in order to feel &#8220;truly&#8221; loved on February the 14th! there is also a huuuuge gap in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}