The James Logan Courier

By Rob Dennis
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

FREMONT — Jeanne Chan often finds stuff in her closet she'd like to get rid of, but until now she hasn't been too happy with the options for doing so.

"I don't really like selling my items on eBay — I feel like the process takes too long," she said. "But at the same time, sometimes I'm too lazy to take myself to a thrift store."

Now she has an alternative. Poshmark, which launched this month, offers users like Chan the opportunity to buy and sell fashion items through a free iPhone app.

By Zohal Sharif, Courier Staff Writer

With tiny waists, perfect bums, and endless legs, many would agree that model’s bodies often look too flawless to be real. But in the case of fashion retail store H&M, it seems they actually aren't.

To complete the H&M model, garments are cut and pasted onto the figures along with the heads of real women who they photographed to create some weird animated composite image. Then, adjustments are made to match skin tones for that wonderful lifelike feel.