"reverse retouching" another woty candidate?

[David Barnhart]

>From my wife while commuting on the train to NYC:



Here's another interesting one--  is there a term for this?  I would call it
a euphemism.



"Called "reverse retouching," this practice first came under scrutiny in
2010 when Jane Druker, the editor of Healthy magazine in England, admitted
that the cover girl arrived at the shoot looking "really thin and unwell."


<http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/08/21/fashion-magazines-now-airbr
ushing-models-to-make-them-look-fatter/?cmpid=GoogleNewsEditorsPicks&google_
editors_picks=true#ixzz24HIC6luQ>
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/08/21/fashion-magazines-now-airbru
shing-models-to-make-them-look-fatter/?cmpid=GoogleNewsEditorsPicks&google_e
ditors_picks=true#ixzz24HIC6luQ



in contrast to Katie Couric's 2006 retouching:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1484008,00.html



Hollis

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