Carina Buckley Analytical Review - The Danger Dress

In our most recent seminar with Dr Carina Buckley we were shown a post off of the blog 'fashion toast'. This post features a series of similar images simply titled 'Where have all the surfing cowboys gone'. This blog offers little explanation as to the purpose of their creation and the blog's somewhat unusual title so we were tasked to analyse this image and to formulate our own opinions.

The image below is the sixth of the seven images features and personally I feel this particular best sums up the collective. 
The image features a young female (approximately 20) leaning against a wall on a sidewalk sporting a white dress (referred to as the danger dress) and matching trainers. The sun can be seen poking through the top of the image.

I personally feel that the intention behind these photos is one of romance and also a social stance. Take the post title for instance, the question refers to 'surfing cowboys' (which can be seen written on the wall in earlier pictures) something of which i have never been made aware of before as one wouldn't usually put that activity and profession together therefore the comes across to the viewer as unusual and out of the 'norm'. What the photographer i think is doing here is that they're are making a comment on individuality, they're asking the audience where has the beauty individuality and uniqueness gone. this is reiterated in the image subject too. The model is representation of this dilemma,  to me she looks slightly defeated from her stance and makes me wonder if she's a representing a woman looking for that '1 in a million'. Her slouched stance against the wall and downward angle of her eyes suggest she's weary of the mundane and monotonous manner of people within her society and feels her quest may be in vein. The danger dress, which i think is titled so because of it's length (or lack of), combined with matching white sneakers i feel may be a hint that there could be resolution to this dilemna as white of tens symbioses purity and hope. I think this is further emphasised in the way the sun is position in this image, the photographer could have easily angled this out but in my opinion has chosen to keep it in order to reflect the possibility of hope. 

All in all, I think this is a beautiful and romantic image. I think the photographer has succeeded in telling a story, a story that perhaps doesn't make a statement but suggests there's a problem with people and society being to similar, identical and lacking individuality. Perhaps she feels were all become clones, cut from the same cloth. However I don't feel the photographer is resigned to this idea, she's still holds out hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel and we can find our 'surfing cowboys'.