Success* seems like a direct translation that might not be the full meaning.

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    In Belgian Dutch, “having success” can mean being (romantically) popular, maybe the meaning is similar here

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      Nah here it means pretty much the same thing as in english. Just her being successfull with her dress that day and then realizing its not success but her dress not being buttoned up properly. I think in very archaic speech(maybe even before our language reform) it meant flat but that doesnt really fit jucika with her pretty not flat shape and also its like very archaic, ibe never heard someone say it in a natural context.

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      Still considered fully clothed on a technicality. XD

      If this is what they want to do to advertise themselves, or feel empowered, sure go ahead. But I’m somewhat bothered by the naked dress in front of the Barbie livery. Wasn’t that movie targeted at a young audience?

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        I don’t have an issue with it. Nudity is natural. It’s an American thing to think people need to be sheltered from it.

        However, I don’t know if Barbie was targeting a young audience. They certainly weren’t excluded, but I think at least half of their target were millennials. I’m a man, and I know a lot of my peers, and myself, watched it and enjoyed it. I’m pretty sure the thought was probably a movie for the parents that the kids will also want to watch.

        (Also, kids are not watching these events. Even if they love the movie, they aren’t going to watch this press event.)

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            What’s the intention? It’s just part of their outfit. It’s not sexual. If you think it is sexual than that’s something you’re reading into it. Showing ankles isn’t sexual, for example. At one point in time people made the same argument against that though.

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                I was just arguing this point in another thread.

                You can’t just create an image in a culturally-sexual style and pretend there is no cultural context.

                You can do it anyway as a form of protest. You can say “there shouldn’t be anything sexual about this image.” But to say there isn’t is ignoring culture and just incorrect. It is like saying racism doesn’t exist.

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      No, she thinks she “succeeded” when the men look at her, but when the women look too, she gains suspicion and finally notices what’s wrong.