Wait, I just have to lay this out here again:

Well first of all it doesn’t *need* to be specially made, if they make dresses in that size and have one they want to offer her I’m sure she’d be thrilled to accept. Second, I think it’s pretty reasonable to express disgust that you are starring in what will be a hugely successful movie — an act that, for the VAST…

All the arguments “against” Jones are based on the question “Why doesn’t she just do something completely different than everyone else,” which is missing the point that she shouldn’t have to do anything different than everyone else. The designers may not have an obligation to make sure everyone gets free clothes, but…

Models can make garbage look good; but if your work looks good on everyone, you are a genius.

I suppose she could buy her own dress, alter it to fit and be done with the issue, except...that it isn’t just one premiere, if this works as it should, it will be several. So Jones would be out 30-50 thousand dollars, yet, she’d still be asked who she was wearing and the designers would get both the publicity and her…

Yes, was going to say that as well - here’s her tweet (also, I’m way invested in this story now even though I don’t care about fashion, had never heard of this woman before, and didn’t even know there was going to be a new Ghostbusters movie):

Your personal feelings are very interesting but not terribly relevant. As it stands now, no one is paying for their dresses and it’s not up to Leslie Jones to be the one who starts it, especially when the people she’d be purchasing from have already so disparaged her.

All I know is that Jessica Paster should stfu.

And just look at her here. A simple outfit, and she really rocks it. They are soooo stupid.

Everyone else is getting their dresses for free, because of the exposure they give to the brand. Once someone has deemed that you’re not worthy of the same treatment that everyone else gets, are you going to turn around and give them $5,000+ and the exposure? Maybe if you were chicken shit you’d be that weak. Leslie…

That’s only because your daughter is too young to know that by loving Ghostbusters with girls, she is ruining some nerd’s childhood.

Sadly there’s probably a lot of truth to that. Although they’re not coming out and saying it directly, I would bet large chunks of money that they feel that as a tall, buxom, black woman, she’s not going to be the next Lupita Nyong’o, and won’t be that bankable, so why bother investing time and money in dressing her?…

She responded to someone on twitter and said that her publicist has been reaching out to everyone, with no takers, for months

So HUGE! I mean, is there enough fabric in the WORLD? No. There isn’t.

This is all bullshit and I’m glad she will get a dress and I love her and everything about her.

I love that no designers stepped in because she’s not a sample size but no- oh no - it’s not because of a size bias. Do they hear themselves?

but rather a size 8 or 10,

She’s not only a giant, she has the nerve to be a Black giant. A Black giant who isn’t even a model and isn’t even light-skinned. Just who does she think she is, expecting to wear dressy clothing and have a few designers respond favorably to the idea of dressing her!

“This is nobody’s fault except Leslie’s,” Paster says. “She should have known four to five months ago the date of premiere, and said, ‘I’m not a sample size, I need to go to designers early or buy myself a dress.’

My humble suggestion is that celebrities should wear fashion designers on the Red Carpet.