Posts filed under ‘Fashion’
Boulder Passes Anti-Corporate Personhood Referendum
Well, the votes are in and as of last night, my town, Boulder, Colorado, passed — by a “wide margin” — a referendum rejecting the notion that corporations are people.
A Boulder measure that counters the idea that corporations and unions have the same First Amendment rights as individuals — a concept referred to as “corporate personhood” — scored an easy win Tuesday night.
Question 2H, which pushes for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would guarantee that only people are entitled to constitutional rights, won the vote by a nearly 3-to-1 margin. According to the final 12:55 a.m. tally, 18,392 voted in favor and 6,556 voted against.
The non-binding measure also favors limits to campaign donations and expenditures by enshrining in the Constitution the idea that money does not equal speech.
Bravo! I am so proud to live in a town that has, at least figuratively, rejected this anti-democratic, cockamamie notion.
Kourtney Kardashian Wears a Dead Animal Over Her Shoulders
This would be Kourtney Kardashian in NYC today. (Note the woman in the striped shirt — and animal skin — behind her.)
Photo: Daily Mail / Splash
I thought killing animals so rich women could feel richer than the rest of us went out of fashion 15 years ago.
Poor, Poor Kim Kardashian
This would be Kim Kardashian at an aquarium in Connecticut the other day.
Does she ever — ever — relax?
INF Photo
Tell me those shoes are comfortable.
Ugh. What a “life.”
Important Stuff
OMG. Say it ain’t so already. This is news?
Are hipster glasses over? How they went from geek to chic to weak.
Gobsmacked
I watched a bit of the royal wedding today – enough to catch some of the hats the female guests wore to the service — and when this one passed by,
I was speechless.
This would be Princess Beatrice, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.
Forget the fashion police. This thing should be confiscated by the fashion army and destroyed. Immediately.
HSN: A $250.00 Razor?
High school kids were standing outside my local grocery store the other day asking people to pick-up simple items poor and homeless people do without. One of the items was disposable razors.
As a food bank volunteer I know razors are coveted but scarce so I forked over six bucks for a 12-pack.
Three days later I see this:
$249.50 for a “Hair Removal Kit?”
Are you kidding me?
That would be — in essence — $250.00 for a cordless razor.
Go here people:
$24.99.
Donate $250.00 to yourself or to your local homeless shelter.
Oy.
Amazing what people will buy.
America the Fat
Now they’re designing clothes to fit our fat. This from HSN tonight — designed to hide that fat butt and those fat hips:
Ugh.
Notice how cheaply it’s made? No buttons. No zippers. No hooks-and-eyes.
They’re loving that we have a whole new need for ah, fashion.
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Who Has Skin Like This?
Thank God for airbrushing huh?
It’s deplorable that the fashion industry implies that there are people out there who actually look like this. Look at the neckline of the woman in the middle in the second picture. That is so doctored. And the hands. No “wrinkles” at the knuckles.
Google anti-wrinkle cream for teens — teens! — and you get almost 800,000 hits.
Sad. Cruel. Almost abusive.
The “Liberal Media” and Rihanna’s Dress, etc.
Miss this stuff?
– Tea Party darling Paul Ryan (R-OH) calls for a $600 million cut in border security. I think we should go after employers who hire undocumented immigrants so hey, fine by me, but why aren’t the Tea Partiers rioting in the streets? This is a huge betrayal of one of their core issues.
– Alaska’s warming at three times the rate of the lower 48 states.
– China overtakes Japan as world’s 2nd largest economy (Woah — China — that was fast!):
Japan ceded its spot as the world’s second biggest economy to China in 2010, following a contraction in the fourth quarter as the strong yen contributed to an export slump, the end of auto subsidies depressed car purchases and a new tobacco tax hit cigarette sales. The Japanese economy’s fall from its 42-year reign in the No. 2 spot behind the U.S. on an annual basis…
– The “liberal media” (that myth is, unbelievably, still alive) couldn’t find any Democrats to appear on today’s Sunday morning talk shows. At one point during the Bush years I heard someone explain spin/justify that so many Republicans were on the “liberalcorporate media” because they were in power. They were in office. They were making the news. Ah, yeah. So what’s the excuse now?
– I can’t help myself here but the dress Rihanna wore to the Grammy’s tonight
reminds me of the Michelin man:
Meow. I know.
What’s Wrong With What Michelle Obama Wore on Oprah Today?
I’m watching Michelle Obama on Oprah. She looks good. She’s dressed very conservatively — a pinkish/purple sleeveless dress, blue/gray “kitten” heel pumps, “diamond” stud earrings (I don’t know if they’re real, of course) and a mesh-like silver necklace with five or six grayish stones:
I’m trying to figure out what the righties will say is “wrong” with her look. They always find something, as in the commie red dress she wore last week to the state dinner honoring the President of China.
I’ll keep you posted. If Sarah Palin can turn Obama’s “winning the future” theme from the State of the Union into WTF (what the fuck), they’re capable of anything.
Michelle Obama’s “Commie” Red Dress
If there was ever a right-wing attack that was so over-the-top-stupid it would offend even right-wingers, this has got to be it:
The right-wing media attacked First Lady Michelle Obama for wearing a red dress to the White House State Dinner, suggesting she did so to honor “Commie Red China.”
Some winger headlines (links at the link above):
Doug Powers: “Michelle Obama Appropriately Enough Wore A Red Dress” While “Musical Rendition Of ‘If My Friends Could See Me Mao’” Played;
Hoft: Michelle Obama’s Dress Slips Off At Commie Red China Obama State Dinner.
Dude, it was designed that way. It’s an off-the-shoulder dress.
Fox Nation: “Did First Lady’s Dress Send A Political Message?”
Also at the link above, this insanity:
Pam Geller Accuses Obama Of “Flying The Gangsta Colors At The White House” For Supposedly Wearing A Purple Tie.
The HOH8 Campaign
Miss this? The NOHh8 campaign?
On November 4, 2008 Proposition 8 passed in California, amending the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The defeat provoked a groundswell of initiative within the GLBT community at a grassroots level, with many new political and protest organizations being formed in response.
The NOH8 Campaign is a photographic silent protest created by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and partner Jeff Parshley in direct response to the passage of Proposition 8. Photos feature subjects with duct tape over their mouths, symbolizing their voices being silenced by Prop 8 and similar legislation around the world, with “NOH8″ painted on one cheek in protest.
Two years since its inception, the NOH8 Campaign has grown to over 8,000 faces and continues to grow at an exponential rate. The campaign began with portraits of everyday Californians from all walks of life and soon rose to include politicians, military personnel, newlyweds, law enforcement, artists, celebrities, and many more.
What? The “liberal media” hasn’t covered this?
Fat Clothes for Fall
Micro rant: Long, drapey and cheap (no buttons or zippers or hems) — that would be the ugly sweater fashion trend this fall.
Army Green is THE Color for Fall?
I’m hearing that Army green is the fashion color for fall.
Excuse me but I’m not going there. I will not buy anything that’s “Army green.”
I do not support anything related to killing people or to American imperialism.
When will the militarization of our society end?
When we’re flat broke from endless war.
“Imported” Clothing
The fall catalogues are starting to come in by the bushel. I was looking at one a little while ago — Garnet Hill — and I noticed that the description of most of the clothing includes, “Imported.”
I’m willing to bet that “imported” means made in China or Vietnam or Malaysia but natch, they don’t want to say that. “Imported,” of course, sounds so much better (but maybe not for long).
Sad.
Beach Towel for Sale — $530.00!
How different can one cotton beach towel be from another? Well, if you’re a brand/label kind of person with endless amounts of money, the “H” label — as in Hermes — means a lot. It means the ridiculous, outrageous price of $530.00 for a beach towel. A TOWEL!
Yeah, there are variations in the quality of a towel but come on! How rich and oblivious does one have to be to spend $500+ on a freakin’ TOWEL?!
How to Save $95.00
When I was in my teens and early 20′s we would throw out shorts long before they looked like this:
But given that corporations are cutting corners, they want us to think that spending $98.00 — yes, that would be $98.00 — on “superdestroyed rail straight cutoffs” (they save money on the fabric) is really, really cool.
Hey – here’s a tip. Go to your local used clothing store. Buy a pair of jeans and/or jean shorts. “Destroy” them to your desired level of destruction and roll them up to your desired length.
Voila. You’ve saved $95.00.
Next? Strut down the street wearin’ those cool superdestroyed cutoffs knowing you won the war against the corporatocracy.
Life isn’t fair, in spades
So exasperating to read about $750 bathing suits on the Style pages while just a click away on the news page hundreds of thousands of Americans see their jobless benefits slipping away. What on earth will these people do? John Edwards may be a sleazeball, but he was right about “two Americas.” Unfettered capitalism at its ugliest.
A $165.00 “JPK Paris” Nylon Bag? — Don’t Get Ripped Off
File this under “Don’t Get Ripped Off:“
It’s a long story but I made a doohickey for our yard last fall that required a 3′ by 10′ piece of nylon fabric. The cost? $17.00. Meanwhile, add a little bit of leather and some “stylized goldtone hardware” and this bag sells for $165.00?
It’s NYLON!!! If you buy this bag, “JPK Paris” is laughing all the way to the bank. Don’t do it.
Debt Nation
Look at this gaudy bag the Home Shopping Network is hawking tonight. My God. At $260 a pop, it’s sold out!
You have got to be kidding me.
Don’t know whether to file this under “Fashion,” “Financial Crisis,” “Don’t Get Ripped Off,” “Humor/Satire,” or a yet-to-be-established category called something like, Who-Would-Pay-Good-Money-in-This-Economy-For-a-Fly-in-the-Pants-Purchase-Like-This-That-Went-Out-of-Style-in-1200-BC?
Quote of the Day
Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi on QVC, 4-24-10 @ 11:20 p.m. ET, talking about the QVC payment option known as “Easy Pay.” “Easy Pay” allows customers to charge an item and have payments appear on their credit card statement in equal increments spread out over two or three or more months: “You’re right about Easy Pay. It almost feels like you’re getting something but not paying for it.”
Is it any wonder there’s so much debt out there what with BS notions like this being thrown around?
Issac Mizrahi Claims His Tote, “Bounces Light Off Your Face”
Isaac Mizrahi is on QVC right now hawking a nylon tote made in China that sells for the outrageous sum of $123.00:
My problem with this is (1) the fact that Mizrahi and QVC are advertising the bag as “patent,” and (2) the price. When we think of “patent,” we think of patent leather (Mizrahi and his cohorts know that), but it isn’t leather, it’s patent nylon. And another thing per Isaac himself, live on the show, the bag “bounces light off your face.”
Yeah. Right. I believe that.
How about this cute thing from Target? $9.99.
Bottom line? Don’t get ripped off!
Nickle and Dimed
Apparently there is no end to the ah, creative thinking going on at corporations in terms of coming up with ways they can rip us off. Look at this:
That’s right. A $995.00 watch (which is bad enough, but the STRAP IS SOLD SEPARATELY.
Aaaaahhhhhhh!
Wear “Skineez” And You’ll Be Skinny
The Home Shopping Network is advertising a product called “Skineez — SkinCareWear.“ The hype is that “Skineez” underwear, together with its “slimming spray,” will make you, well, skinny.
Raise your hand if you think this will work. I mean, seriously.
Why You’re Broke: $78.00 Flip-Flops?
$78.00 — that would be seventy eight dollars (how many hours do you have to work to make that much money?) — for a pair of flip-flops?
People: Stop. Think!
The Fashion Folk Want Us to Believe That Cheap Means “Style”
Look at these screenshots of J.Jill’s homepage:
“Less structure, more style…”
“Less structure, more style” means clothes that are produced in the cheapest way possible: No buttons, no hems, no snaps, no zippers. “Rolled edges” on sweaters; forget ribbing. No collars. No cuffs. No yolks. No shoelaces or grommets (think Velcro). No clasps on bracelets or necklaces (ribbon ties are all the rage) and a nylon bag now costs as much as one made of leather. Oh, and remember the long-gone “feet” on handbags that kept the bottom from getting dirty? They’ve vanished. The sales pitch now is, “a nice flat bottom.”
NO structure, not “less structure.”
In other words, the people who sell us clothes are stripping away the details that cost a few cents to produce, but they’re not reducing their prices. In the end, “less structure” means a poorer product for you and me but more profit for you know who.
Bottom line? The cheap, sloppy, “less structured” look is something we’re supposed to love. It’s “style.”
Ladies — Nordstrom Wants You To Want These Shoes
These shoes are near the top of the list of “What’s New” at Nordstrom tonight:
Are you kidding me?
Plan Your Fall 2011 Wardrobe Now
Pantone is one of the premiere trendsetters in the world of color — paint colors; the color of mobile phones and clothes. It says these will be the “must-have” colors for Fall 2011:
Yuck. I like the light purple but that’s about it.
Why You’re Broke
You’re broke because you let HSN convince you that you had to have this gaudy thing, at $479.90 (plus S&H), even though you had no need for it when you woke up this morning:
You’re broke because you paid $50.00 (plus S&H) for these “diamond” earrings from QVC, which they convinced you you had to have, even though you could buy essentially the same thing at Target for $12.00.
