MISS DIOR: MISSHAPEN OR MISS-TAKEN?

Dear Readers, I hope you won't get me wrong over this item. I'm not obsessed with the female form but I am male and, I suppose, like most males, I am drawn to images of the female form. That is why, I suppose, the House of Dior, in this pre-Christmas period of frenzied present buying, seeks to attract me to its fragrance, Miss Dior, in the hope that I might buy a few bottles for the ladies in my life and does so by showing me a naked woman; or the top half anyway. In the fine city of Peterborough yesterday I seemed unable to move without seeing the poster that I reveal to you below (people of a sensitive disposition please cover your eyes now). Yesterday I Blackberried the poster in the Queensgate shopping centre and if you look very carefully you can see the reflection of the words John Lewis in the glass protecting the poster (I include this to establish the veracity of what I am saying).

Some of you might immediately spot what I am going to say but others might like to hold their hand over the left part of the picture and then look at what remains. What I saw the minute I looked at the poster and what I am seeing now is a girl who possesses a very droopy and compressed right breast (we do not use the word 'boob' in this blog) - there is even a slight hint of a nipple on the apparent right breast. Some might even perceive this girl as having a slightly misplaced right breast and a very long left breast that has been pulled over and is being held in an unnatural position by the right breast. Altogether odd and doing nothing to focus my pre-Christmas buying frenzy on the Miss Dior fragrance - quite the reverse in fact.

Of course this is an optical illusion; we are seeing arms, elbows and hands and there isn't a breast in sight but the central presence of the words Miss Dior, large and twirly, and the shot of the product somehow force one to look first at the right hand side of the picture and our brain then tries to rationalise this - and sees breasts. 

Or maybe it's just because I'm a man. I've met some women in my life who would say this. YOU, my Friends, must be the jury.