On gold mouse ears and computer stitching

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Saw a few ears around on Sunday. They're selling them all over the park, not just at hat stores. BTW, there are more hat stores than I ever realized. Before MA we never noticed "Frontierland Hats" before, and I didn't know until yesterday that the Briar Patch had been converted to a hat shack.

A CM at Frontierland Hats informed us that he had only "computer stitching" and that if you wanted the old freehand stitching you could still get it in the Mad Hatter shops. We didn't see an example of computer stitching until later.

While waiting for fireworks we noticed a woman wearing gold ears with a BIG BOLD NAME in burgundy on the back, obviously embroidered by a computer. (Someone took a picture, please post it!). After talking about her while standing 3 feet away she and her friend talked to us about it, saying it cost $7 extra and you can pick any color you want. She also said that the eventual idea is to eliminate the free stitching! As if those scraps of fabric and plastic weren't overpriced enough already! Someone call CM Matt and smack him around if he okayed this!

Later on we were at the Briar Patch getting Mousepod's best girl a pair of ears and discovered that they had computer stitching there but it was different than the lady's. It was in looping cursive, an attempt to imitate the hand-guided stitch of old. They offered a white thread only. When we mentioned the stitching we'd seen, the CM said "oh no, that's only reserved for baseball caps and other hats - never on ears." We almost got into a fight with her on that.

So we still don't know the whole story.