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childhood for sale - "cheap"
Feb. 5th, 2004 10:03 pmi had a fitting at Chico's for a charity fashion show my boss' wife is doing. i will appear at the WAC for a bunch of catholic ladies who lunch. i did it last year with Coldwater Creek, and once again, i went to the store for the first time and probably the last to do my fitting. the clothes are nice enough, but i only spend more than $50 on shoes or leather. they exclaimed over my height and the transformative qualities of dressing me up...and it only looks magic if i don't do it all the time, which is why i don't. that and laziness.
then i wandered down to visit Urban Outfitters, since i'm either with C, who has near-zero tolerance for clothes and especially "hipness" or it's closed. there were some cute things on sale, and i will remember where to find the racks, since they cut prices like the Gap (ie the clothes still cost the company half of $10 and it's using up their real estate). but mostly, the place was a mass-produced thrift store. and the retro pre-aged reproductions included a Pittsburgh Pirates 1979 world champions t-shirt that was probably owned by a member of my family (as central Pennsylvanians, we chose to look west unlike those cretin Phillies/Eagles fans) and then there was the John Deere gear. and the Mickey's pint glasses. (as if anyone who drinks Mickeys ever pours it) and i think there was even a "someone in allentown loves me" shirt.
so someone realized that they could sell people new things that look like they came from Salvation Army. i'm not sure if i'm more dismayed that there are people who pay $20 for what should be a silly $1 thrift store find, or at the smirking attitude that goes with buying such items. i have very fond memories of both the Pirates and John Deere tractors; am i being ridiculed or honored with the t-shirt thing? if i wear John Deere apparel, am i representing fond memories of riding on and driving tractors to the world, or do i look like one of those snide shitheads in a trucker hat?
then again, if i can't trust people to get the joke in my "Republicans for Voldemort" shirt, i guess i can't expect them to correctly interpret anything i wear.
then i wandered down to visit Urban Outfitters, since i'm either with C, who has near-zero tolerance for clothes and especially "hipness" or it's closed. there were some cute things on sale, and i will remember where to find the racks, since they cut prices like the Gap (ie the clothes still cost the company half of $10 and it's using up their real estate). but mostly, the place was a mass-produced thrift store. and the retro pre-aged reproductions included a Pittsburgh Pirates 1979 world champions t-shirt that was probably owned by a member of my family (as central Pennsylvanians, we chose to look west unlike those cretin Phillies/Eagles fans) and then there was the John Deere gear. and the Mickey's pint glasses. (as if anyone who drinks Mickeys ever pours it) and i think there was even a "someone in allentown loves me" shirt.
so someone realized that they could sell people new things that look like they came from Salvation Army. i'm not sure if i'm more dismayed that there are people who pay $20 for what should be a silly $1 thrift store find, or at the smirking attitude that goes with buying such items. i have very fond memories of both the Pirates and John Deere tractors; am i being ridiculed or honored with the t-shirt thing? if i wear John Deere apparel, am i representing fond memories of riding on and driving tractors to the world, or do i look like one of those snide shitheads in a trucker hat?
then again, if i can't trust people to get the joke in my "Republicans for Voldemort" shirt, i guess i can't expect them to correctly interpret anything i wear.
