Oprah, (May12) women police officers in uniform makeover segment 'Have you seen it?

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I wish I had added ‘Logic’ as one of the tags…

Sounds like it was one of their makeover type shows, and it just happened to be featuring female officers. I don’t really think there’s anything wrong with it. Obviously they were able to get women to do it, so there was an interest in it.

Uh, yeah, I’ll take the cop uniform. Hot.

I see what you’re saying, and I personally, I find the cop uniform to be just as hot.

But, maybe, they just wanted to get all dolled up, hence, the makeover.

@Seaofclouds and @Jude okay, but why not comapre female police officers dressed in their causal or at their dresssiest, and make that the ’‘Before’’, instead of the uniforms. Their career should have no relevance.

@flo If the theme was about female officers, it makes sense for them to be in their uniform. While on duty, they are the rough and tough officers that may have to get down and dirty to apprehend their suspects. Then, when off duty, they get to be sexy. Sure they could’ve just did a makeover with them still in their uniform, but that’s not usually how any makeover show goes. They always have the makeover participants looking miserable and kind of drab, that way there is more of a different when they are in new clothes with a new hairstyle and some makeup on. It’s just how makeover shows usually go.

I was hoping to see a sexier police uniform actually. :(

Eh, makeover shows are usually pretty annoying. It always comes down to a dismissal of personal style and homogenizing the subject according to whatever the fashion powers that be decree to be fashionable. I was more put off that they cut off all that bearded guy’s hair. That was a fine display of hirsuteness and unlike a change of clothes he can’t just change back to his old look if he likes it better. Hair takes a long time to grow back. But that’s just what happened. He didn’t like looking “like a banker” and when they checked back three years later he was hirsute again.

Makeovers are just tv, I bet 80% of the makeover subjects go right back to their old style when they’re on their own.

I don’t think there’s any hidden agenda here. As @Seaofclouds points out, the theme of the show was policewomen. They can either not have the theme at all or show them first in their uniforms. If they don’t start out the make over in their uniforms they might as well not be policewomen. They couldn’t have compared sets of sets of police uniforms because uniform specs are determined by each particular force and must be, well, uniform. As much as a pretty broach might liven up a female officer’s dress blues or everyday uniform, even the great and all powerful Oprah does not have the power to remake, redo, make-over or accessories police uniforms.

She has to figure out how to do a good show so these women chose to have a makeover. But I think a makeover with nice, go to the grocery store outfits would have been so much better. And much more useful for us to have watched.

I think they should have done a show where they take all the fat sloppy male cops and make them over. Those women all looked pretty trim and good in their uniforms, unlike a lot of their male counterparts.

So, what was the point in the makeover?

All the ladies “cleaned-up” pretty good and that’s great. So, what is the purpose?

Have you noticed one thing that all the police women had in common?

They all have pocketbooks, in order to carry their off-duty weapon.

I just saw this the first paragraph in the link:
“After spending a day with their beauty team, Chicago’s finest say goodbye to their polyester blues” I don’t know what that means.

@flo It means the women spent a day with a beauty team (people to pick out clothes for them, do their hair and makeup) and they are saying goodbye to their “polyester blues” (meaning their uniforms, but also being a play on words about being down about how they look in their uniforms) after having the makeover.

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It is almost guaranteed that any “After” involving women is a revealing a lot of skin. And that is sexist. That is what I call a theme – something that tends to come up over and over again.
Aiming for clarity is the whole point of the OP. I guess the “Sets of police uniforms” was not a good idea to put in my OP. I sure didn’t mean that Oprah should be changing police uniforms. The point was about comparing apples and apples, not apples and oranges.

@fundevogel I agree.
@rooeytoo I don’t see that many makeovering going on for males period. Maybe men are not into objectifying themselves so much.

@flo – you’re right probably because society doesn’t bother brainwashing males that what you look like isn’t enough, you must always be more. It saves that one for the ladies.

@rooeytoo yes but I heard that Oprah is supposed to be about the inner you. And women can be too bright and resistant to any brain washing esp. in developed countries right?

@flo – I sure agree that many if not most or all are bright enough, but resistant is the hard part. Seems as if culture implants some deep deep anxiety or need to entice and please that is hard to deny. But hope springs eternal!!!

@rooeytoo it is the degree, just stunning.

My grammar above, should be ‘Can be bright and resistant enough…’ or ‘should be too bright…’