What women don't want
The slash-to-60% and more sales have hit the department stores, and one could compile a What Not to Wear guide based on what's piled on the racks. In this city, that would be
1. Blouses:
- Smock or empire tops, especially in fake Pucci-type prints. They looked tired by spring, and now are positively embalmed.
- Sleeveless blouses, especially white. I think that's because they look unfinis
hed, compared to those with at least 3/4 sleeves.
- Very sheer. Bridge designers tried them bowed, tunic'd, even pleated and it looks like every last one is on triple markdown. Women knew they'd have to wear a camisole under them, but when it's so sticky, do you want another layer?
2. Skirts and dresses:
- Wrap dresses: a case of hanger death, with poked up shoulders and saggy waist ties.
- Long, full skirts: after the ubiquitous peasant-skirt-summer two years ago, no one wants lower-calf length, tiered skirts but apparently buyers thought so.
- The colour gray: so hard to get right in a fabric. For me it has to be deep anthracite or the palest nacreous gray like the inside of an oyster shell. Sad grays abound even in a decent bridge line like Anne Klein; the only luminous ones I've seen are from Miyake and Vuitton.
3. Pants/
shorts:
-The knee-length cigarette Bermuda apparently flattered 1% of the toothpick-proportioned women who might wear them.
4. Shoes:
- 4-inch platform wedges: you can find them sulking on the sale racks at every price point; this may be because we're a subway city
Fall items are slipping in, requiring huge signs that say NEW ARRIVALS because there's so much unsold summer stock.
You read it here: an extravaganza of eggplant, maroon, purple. Not a colourway I'm thrilled to buy.
1. Blouses:
- Smock or empire tops, especially in fake Pucci-type prints. They looked tired by spring, and now are positively embalmed.
- Sleeveless blouses, especially white. I think that's because they look unfinis
hed, compared to those with at least 3/4 sleeves.- Very sheer. Bridge designers tried them bowed, tunic'd, even pleated and it looks like every last one is on triple markdown. Women knew they'd have to wear a camisole under them, but when it's so sticky, do you want another layer?
2. Skirts and dresses:
- Wrap dresses: a case of hanger death, with poked up shoulders and saggy waist ties.
- Long, full skirts: after the ubiquitous peasant-skirt-summer two years ago, no one wants lower-calf length, tiered skirts but apparently buyers thought so.
- The colour gray: so hard to get right in a fabric. For me it has to be deep anthracite or the palest nacreous gray like the inside of an oyster shell. Sad grays abound even in a decent bridge line like Anne Klein; the only luminous ones I've seen are from Miyake and Vuitton.
3. Pants/
shorts:-The knee-length cigarette Bermuda apparently flattered 1% of the toothpick-proportioned women who might wear them.
4. Shoes:
- 4-inch platform wedges: you can find them sulking on the sale racks at every price point; this may be because we're a subway city
Fall items are slipping in, requiring huge signs that say NEW ARRIVALS because there's so much unsold summer stock.
You read it here: an extravaganza of eggplant, maroon, purple. Not a colourway I'm thrilled to buy.
Comments
The stores here in Connecticut are filled with rack after rack of endless mass=produced sameness of color and style Not sure how they manage to sell such jam-packed racks of merchandise.
Hundreds to chose from & 50% off. Then at 75% off and or/Clearance. If that doesn't work it will be heading for TJ Maxx or to a clothing scrap merchant.
I bought a perfect tunic top from Eileen Fisher, (sadly, not on sale) expensive until one wears it and wears it and it goes beautifully with so many things.. The racks and racks seem to fall apart. The quality lasts.
Anjela: If one never ever goes to sales, and uses full price as a control, could one have that perfect small wardrobe?
There is so much *junk* on the sales racks right now. Ugly, shoddy, will-look-dated-in-six-months junk.