{"id":2227,"date":"2014-08-07T15:49:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T14:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:24:11","slug":"primark-removes-skinny-mannequin-from-shop-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/primark-removes-skinny-mannequin-from-shop-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Primark apologises and removes &#8216;Skinny&#8217; mannequin from their window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Primark has apologised and removed a shop window mannequin with protruding ribs from their Glasgow store after a disgruntled customer shared her thoughts about the mannequin on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was brought to the public&#8217;s attention when Mel Fraser, a passerby, posted a picture of the &#8216;skinny&#8217; mannequin on Instagram and questioned its use. Mel Fraser stated that it sent out a dangerous message, and she would rather see mannequins of all shapes and sizes in shop windows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Instagram picture soon went viral and caused an uproar on social media after it was shared 1400 times on Twitter. In the first instance, Primark responded to the tweet to say it would be investigated, before following up to confirm that the mannequins would not be used again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">@Melfyx We&#8217;re currently changing our window displays. The mannequins you describe will not be used in this way again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In contrast, high street stores, including Debenhams, are planning to roll out larger-sized mannequins across their stores better to represent the diversity of real body shapes and sizes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What do you think about the skinny mannequin in Glasgow&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.primark.com\/en\/homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Primark <\/a>store? Should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/mannequins-and-tailors-dummy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mannequins<\/a> represent different sizes? We would appreciate hearing your views on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2228 size-full\" title=\"Primark Apologises and Removes 'Skinny' Mannequin From Shop Window\" src=\"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Primark-Apologises-and-Removes-Skinny-Mannequin-From-Shop-Window.jpg\" alt=\"Primark Apologises and Removes 'Skinny' Mannequin From Shop Window\" width=\"446\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Primark-Apologises-and-Removes-Skinny-Mannequin-From-Shop-Window.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Primark-Apologises-and-Removes-Skinny-Mannequin-From-Shop-Window-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primark has apologised and removed a shop window mannequin with protruding ribs from their Glasgow store after a disgruntled customer shared her thoughts about the mannequin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61822,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/61822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}