'Eat Less' Urban Outfitters T-Shirt: Tasteful Or Tasteless? (PHOTO, POLL)

Update 9:15 p.m. It seems that the "Eat Less" t-shirt is no longer available on Urban Outfitters' website. Read more here.

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Urban Outfitters' "Eat Less" V-Neck Tee is one of the more, well, interesting things we've seen on the chain's website since its Obama/Black t-shirt. Printed on the gray v-neck are the words "Eat Less" in white cursive. But the description of the item reads: "Eat less or more or however much you'd like in this seriously soft knit tee cut long and topped with a v-neck." Perhaps they should have printed all of that on there.

What do you think?

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Urban Outfitters' 'Eat Less' Tee:

Tasteful--it's just a t-shirt.

Tasteless--this is promoting bad body image.

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Comments

[Womanvoter4Obama]

07:12 PM on 06/28/2010

I would have said eat better. There are some people who are fat because they don't eat enough and their body holds onto fat in fear of going into starvation mode. And I do worry there are girls out there who think they are fat even though they are size 3's who don't need this message. But if you like the shirt...buy it. Support it. I won't be.

[saranaghati]

10:27 AM on 06/17/2010

I have no problem with the T-shirt, but we should also have ones that say "Drink Less Alcohol" and "Smoke Less Pot". Otherwise it is just prejudice.

[moped]

06:28 PM on 06/07/2010

looks like the Eat Less t-shirt is here now http://www.altruapparel.com/-eat-less-p-663.html

[padrushka]

11:11 AM on 06/07/2010

so what is the problem? most of us should eat less. i like the t shirt

[wasim ali]

11:37 PM on 06/08/2010

Me too --- the saying goes - Live Simply So Other May Simply Live.

[nuclearfinz]

07:46 AM on 06/07/2010

I am a fat person. The road to me being overweight started with 5 pregnancies and ended with a job where I work 12 hours rotating shifts and sit in a chair most of the time. I was going to the gym in an effort to lose weight and was mildly successful until my mother was diagnosted with terminal cancer and died 3 months later.
I know I have to get my mind set back into going to the gym. I know I have to eat less, its a given. I dont think a tee shirt like that is going to inspire me but its not going to hurt either. I do believe a lot of people who are heavy for other reasons are going to be insulted and it may be rightly so.
If it were easy to lose weight, there would be no fat people.

[kellym33]

11:02 PM on 06/10/2010

Thanks for your honest reaction. I'm sorry about your Mom. My Dad died a month ago from cancer, and it does just stop your life for a while. Hard to get motivated when your grieving. Good luck with everything!

[228 hans]

07:09 PM on 06/06/2010

with america on the brink of obesity, "eat less" makes for good eating. They should have used a fat model instead of a skinny one. I am tired of being politilcally correct, it needs to be said so people can understand it in simple words.

[Mriduls]

01:24 AM on 06/06/2010

Q. How to fix the outrage over the "EAT LESS" Urban Outfitter new T-shirt

A: Just add the words " AND FEED THE WORLD".

I am sure that the so called developed world, which lives in perpetual "organic" gourmet food fixations and excess, can do with eating frugally once in a while to let the 2/3rds of the world feed their poor and hungry. So, whats so wrong in eating less!!

Perhaps that was the grand motive of this fashion outfit. Or perhaps, their intentions were not so noble, but I find it hard to believe that a t-shirt is going to promote anorexia, celebrities and the entertainment world is already doing that.

T-shirt or a sickly Keira Knightley, not a hard decision to figure out who/what is a bigger influence.

[wasim ali]

11:38 PM on 06/08/2010

You are absolutely right - we should eat less and let others eat more.....

[avon96734]

01:08 AM on 06/06/2010

With over 1/2 of Americans overweight, god forbid Americans eat less.

[RonRutherford]

11:04 PM on 06/05/2010

The only slight problem I see with all of this, is the use of an extremely thin model in the picture. Nothing wrong with the shirt, but to see a girl who has a skin and bones look to her is only begging for controversy. But hey, maybe that's what they wanted.

http://therationalreport.blogspot.com/

[raechel]

08:54 PM on 06/05/2010

And I have to say that the model does not appear to be under-nourished. When I was 20, just about everyone looked like this, and if you head to Italy or France today, this is the norm. Our norm in the US has shifted, because norm means average, and our average is now obese, or close to it. This is not a body-image issue. It's a social justice issue and it's a health issue.

[SpadinaMan]

10:58 PM on 06/10/2010

Yes, thank you.

[swampman1900]

02:21 PM on 06/05/2010

I can see it now, some mentally deranged fat guy walking over to someone wearing this shirt and belting them.

[Eddy333]

07:38 AM on 06/05/2010

Well, let's see. About 78% of the American population needs to do just that, so I'm supposed to be offended by this T-shirt?

Sorry, but a friggin' t-shirt existing or not existing is not going to stop or start a disturbed teenage girl from sticking her fingers down her throat to get dinner out of her system.

Some people really spend a lot of time looking for things to be outraged about. Instead of getting outraged by the damn t_shirt why don't you try and shut down EVEY SINGLE magazine directed at the female gender. That would be a start

[siriuslynow]

12:59 AM on 06/05/2010

Yes, because Eating Disorders are so hilarious.

Glad this got taken down. This is beyond tasteless; more like offensive and cruel.

[CoffeeOnIce]

11:06 PM on 06/04/2010

Let's not kid ourselves, UO isn't trying to promote healthy moderation - just look at the model wearing the shirt. Anorexia may not be as widespread an issue as obesity, but body image is certainly a much bigger issue - and this shirt isn't exactly being marketed to the plus-size demographic. Although, I have to give UO kudos for being honest about their beauty ideal instead of putting an "every size is beautiful" shirt on a size 0.

[veritas88]

07:27 PM on 06/04/2010

maybe the t-shirt should've been modeled by a normal sized person.