Catalog Poses

I'm not as high brow as I'd like to think I am. I was raised to believe catalog illustrations were the desired look (by my mom and how she needed illustrators in her atelier) so McCalls, Butterick and Vogue Patterns illustrations were styles to aspire to: easy, understandable, subdued. SO to this day, I gravitate to easy poses, like these I found on ecommerce site COS. They're easy and not editorial, but they have a flow about them which is simultaneously fashion croquis and Paul Smith (the X-men illustrator).