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Posted on July 3, 2009
Filed Under Daily, The Closet: Style Videos | 5 Comments

Preparations to relaunch “The Closet” series in Los Angeles are underway, and for the first time ever, we’re inviting new faces to work with us!

Check us out on Craig’s List:

Models, CLICK HERE.

Videographers/Sound and Light Editors, CONTACT US DIRECTLY.
Apparently, our post was too dirty for Craig’s List, and they’ve already flagged and removed it six times.

If you’re interested in becoming a part of this project, and live in the Los Angeles area, shoot us an e-mail, or pass our listing along to someone you think might be interested.

Please note that these positions ARE open to high school and college students, barring that you are at least 18 years of age.

All inquiries should be directed to The Closet [at] Slice of Lemon [dot] com.

To preempt any questions or e-mails from clothing designers/small business owners who want to contribute their fashions and accessories to this series, we’ll be accepting design portfolios starting in November. We’ll keep you posted on when and how to send them.

Also, since I figured this would happen, and I already see it popping up in the comments, I thought I should mention a few things about our model search. The reason we ask that our models be at least 5′5″ tall (the average height of American women) and have a thin and healthy build, is for a few reasons.

First, often times women who answer these types of ads are very, very thin. “The Closet” does not encourage women to abuse their bodies in the name of fashion — after all, style is not about torturing oneself into a state of obsession over wanting to fit into the jeans you wore in high school. It is very important to us that our model(s) understand that we neither condone nor encourage unhealthy habits regarding body image, and therefore a woman who submits a portfolio stating that she’s 5′10″ tall and weighs 102 pounds will not be asked to join us.

Next, although it is very possible to be curvy and maintain a healthy build, just as we do not encourage excessive thinness, we also do not encourage women who are abusing their bodies in the opposite way. The clothing vendors we work with have a specific “model size” they send us, and if a model is a significantly larger, the clothes we have will not fit her. But that is not to say that if you’re a size 8, and our model is wearing a size 2, that you cannot buy the same clothes she has on in our videos.
After all, nearly every mannequin in America is built to stand 5′7″ tall and fit a size 2, but that has never stopped me from walking passed the display window to find my size on the racks.
(Oh, and I’m like, totally shorter, and bigger than the mannequin who’s wearing the dress I want.)

Finally, we understand that beauty comes in a million different colors and sizes — and that is in fact one of the most beautiful aspects of Islam. Muslims do not only come from one region of the world, but from folds in the earth where one may not even know Islam has spread.

We are open to comments and e-mails asking us for advice on how to dress various body types, which we are always responsive to. Most often, I get those types of questions from my readers over at my fashion column, but we’re very much open to hearing from you at “The Closet” as well.

And just as we have mentioned in our disclaimer, we encourage women to put their own creative spin on anything we choose because one size, color, style, hijab, or trend does not, and should not fit all.

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