the boot

Scenario: Model gets booked for high profile fashion show and mysteriously is not given the details, which results in model not showing up for said fashion show...

Now, some of you may be thinking negligence on behalf of the agency or the actual model; but, guess what, this could very likely, simply, be another case of 'the boot', or in other words, the good ol' switcheroo.

Let's say an agent has a certain model on their roster that they are trying to get out there and push, which happens to not be that certain model that booked that certain show. So, what happens here is the agent 'mistakingly' does not give the show details to the booked model, and, alternatively, gives them to the model in which they are trying to push.

So, you would think that all would be happy and merry backstage come show day, right?? Wrong. The designers end up pissed off since they didn't get the model they booked...and the agent, in all likelihood, puts the blame on the model who 'didn't show' in order to not blow the cover on ' the boot.' So now, a model's reputation hangs in the rafters, a designer is pissed off, and an agent gets away with a scheme thats been going on for decades.

This, my friends, is the boot.