This is some sort of sick joke, right?

[MouseWife]

Originally Posted by orbitalpunk

"Princess".

The very sight of "princess" shirts make me cringe.

You are right! I think it goes great on little babies and kitties.....

[Not Afraid]

Eh, I guess I've heard the "my 5 year old could paint that" excuse when looking at art one too many times.

Believe me, I don't see these shirts as the pinacle of creativity, I just think it is terribly refreshing for Disney to go out on at least SOME sort of ledge for once.

[€uroMeinke]

Ah - but Marcel Duchamp exhibts a urinal in an art show calling it the "Everalting Fountain" and it is art. You or I do the same thing and it's not

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Ah - but Marcel Duchamp exhibts a urinal in an art show calling it the "Everalting Fountain" and it is art. You or I do the same thing and it's not

I suppose it won't surprise you that I quickly grow bored with dada.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I suppose it won't surprise you that I quickly grow bored with dada.

Heh - and that is where you and I differ. But that's cool, for otherwise the world would be a rather dull place - despite a universal appreciation for Dada

[Not Afraid]

Uh huh.

[Prudence]

I have a wardrobe rule at my house: if it's not something that I might wear to an interview or a formal occasion, it has to be able to survive the washing machine.

I'm not a fan of shoddy construction, no matter how fleetingly fashionable it is. That being said, I don't have a problem with Disney selling such things, since people apparently want to buy them. I think said people are a little silly, but I'm sure they would find facets of my life to be silly.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by Prudence

I have a wardrobe rule at my house: if it's not something that I might wear to an interview or a formal occasion, it has to be able to survive the washing machine.

I feel exactly the same! Well said.

"Fashion" to me means mostly what is easy to obtain at the present. I do choose things which appeal to me, though that's been pretty plain and boring lately. I need to do some searching. My style lately has been comfort.

While I applaud Disney for trying an actual new look, I wish it wasn't so ugly. Even if it looked good, I wouldn't pay that kind of price.

I'm pretty disappointed with most of the clothes I've bought lately. I have a few things from high school in the 80's which are still in service. Nothing I've bought in the last 5 has had that kind of survivability. I know- if they make clothes shoddy they wear out and you have to buy more.

I know the dynamic, it just makes me mad.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Mousewife

And I have to comment, most women I see wearing the Juicy pants have rather, um, er, juicy rears. What do thin bummed women wear? Hmm???

Amazingly, they don't have to put words on their asses to make people look at them.

I don't follow fashion - fashion is people telling me what to do. I easily admit to limiting my spending on clothing to certain rules, such as how much wear it can get, how many places it will be appropriate at, and whether I could get something similar elsewhere.

I have to admit, I'd laugh in someone's face if they said they paid $130 for a piece of clothing to show that they were "rebelling". Who are you rebelling against - the employer that hands you your very large paycheck, or perhaps Visa/Mastercard? Third option - maybe you're rebelling against your very wealthy parents who bought it for you.

Shirts that are priced exorbitantly, whether it be a $100 white collared shirt for conservative meetings or a $100 "couture" shirt that looks like someone spilled something on it, I will not purchase. Not even if I had money coming out of my ears. The reasons for not purchasing them are different, but there's still a price threshold. I may buy the nice one for $30, but the gaudy/torn/faded/ugly thing wouldn't get $1 out of me, because I'd never wear it.

I've bought my share of "worn" or "torn" jenas, but in this specific case, YUCK.

The above is just my opinion...

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I don't follow fashion - fashion is people telling me what to do.

Nonsense - we all follow fashion - everytime we put something on or buy something we're making decissions that are at least in part aesthetic. Fashion is not an absolute - we all have it, and thankfully we're all different in expressing it (except I guess during certain teen years when Brand identity becomes for some reason very important).

You may not be Haut Cotour (sp?), or Goth, or Preppy - but you have a style, an aesthetic - and yes a "fashion" and it is dictated at least in part by other's unless your sewing your own clothes from fabric you wove and dyed yourself. Rejecting materialism is also a fashion statement.