Since I turned 40, I began subscribing to the online newsletter from MORE magazine. It has some valid information for the 40-something and MORE crowd. Today's included this headline: 30 Best Jeans for Women.
As part of this feature article, there were 30 styles of jeans, some shown as part of an ensemble. Each complete outfit was no less than $2000.
What. The. Hell?
Shay Peretz
By Lois Joy Johnson
Jeans for the Bohemian
"I'm all about vintage-look funky jeans. Finding a style that fits my waist and my derriere is always the challenge."
-- Beth Kristiansen, 43, aesthetician
Beat-up hippie flares with an artsy soul are reincarnated as brand-new fades with a curve-accommodating fit that true vintage lacks. They're great with this year's floaty tunics and wedges. Kristiansen is wearing True Religion "Joey" style ($253) with contour seaming that slims the legs. Max & Co. silk tunic ($198). Kate Spade shoes ($325). Henry Beguelin bag ($1,325).
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Don't forget the $300 color and perm, the $150 manicure and pedicure, and the $100 make-up.
But WHATEVER you do, don't use that Henry Beguelin bag in the spring. It will be SO LAST YEAR!
I don't know what's worse. The people who make and price this stuff. The magazines that push the stuff. Or the women who think they have to have this stuff.
Cripes.
4 comments:
But...but...how ELSE are they going to keep spunky, middle-aged wage earners nearing the top of their pay-scale living pay-check-to-pay-check in an endless cycle of debt and wage-slavery?
If you weren't such a commie, you'd care more about the job security of the 12-year-old Indonesian girls who make this stuff...
And all the executives in between who need to make their nut on the mark-up every quarter.
P.S. Buy more over-priced stuff! It's your patriotic duty, or the terrorists win! You don't want that on your concience, do you?
Commie, huh?
Hmmm... I always DID like the color red!
;-)
Well, at least you know a joke when you see one, so you don't SEE red.
OK.
That was lame.
Time for Trees to to stop working on the computer, playing on the computer. Time for non-screen time.
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