Happy birthday, Lee!!!!
Saffron: I'll die. Mal: Well, as a courtesy, you might start getting busy on that, 'cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
'Trash'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
ChiKat - Sep 17, 2012 9:16:58 am PDT #22407 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Atropa - Sep 17, 2012 9:24:19 am PDT #22408 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Happy happy birthday, Lee!
The fashion looks shown now will also influence mass market stuff - colors, shapes, etc., are being watched by the people who design stuff for Gap, Old Navy, H&M, etc. and are starting their spring collections.
Yes. What is showing up in stores for Fall 2012 was spotted/designed/created last spring. However, a lot of the "fast fashion" stores - Forever 21, Urban Outfitters, and the like - also have people scouring the internet for "micro trends", so they can get their sweatshop factories to slam stuff out and take advantage of whatever is hot at the moment. There are legions of interns who have a dayjob of going through fashion blogs, Pinterest, Instagram, and wherever else people post outfit photos.
(The business of fashion design fascinates me.)
JenP - Sep 17, 2012 9:36:53 am PDT #22409 of 30001
Happy Birthday, Lee!!
sumi - Sep 17, 2012 9:37:34 am PDT #22410 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I was going to say that I thought that it was a lead time for manufacturers - much like the lead time for advertisers in magazines. It's not really for the general public - but we're curious anyway.
Sheryl - Sep 17, 2012 9:48:40 am PDT #22411 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Lee!
Calli - Sep 17, 2012 9:52:36 am PDT #22412 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Happy birthday, Lee!
Kate P. - Sep 17, 2012 10:00:37 am PDT #22413 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Happy birthday, Lee! And happy birthday to the Phoenix Board! I listened to OMWF this morning in its/our honor.
Good vibes to Homer, Jesse! I hope it's nothing serious. Poor kitty.
ita, FWIW, I definitely think of Jamaica as third world. But I do think -- and please correct me if I'm wrong -- it's a sizable step above the kind of "failed states" that Theo mentioned: North Korea, Somalia, etc. So I wonder if the existence of countries like those influences people's perceptions of places like Jamaica and other, somewhat more functional third-world countries, which seem not as bad by comparison.
Spent much of the morning driving all over town: first to drop Rose off at daycare, then back home to check that I had, in fact, closed and locked the front door (which of course I had; WTF, brain?), then over to the new place to retrieve the key that the sellers left outside after they finished fixing the ceiling (yay!), then to a coffeeshop for coffee and second breakfast, then to Home Depot to buy a mailbox and moving boxes, then back to the new house to meet the guy who was coming to inspect the air quality (who was over half an hour late, of course), then back to the old house to drop off the moving boxes (since they were too big to go in the trunk, and I'd had to move the carseat to fit them in the backseat), and now finally I'm at work! And ready for a nap.
brenda m - Sep 17, 2012 10:00:44 am PDT #22414 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I was going to say that I thought that it was a lead time for manufacturers - much like the lead time for advertisers in magazines. It's not really for the general public - but we're curious anyway.
What's less easy for me to understand is how the stores schedule things. Like, summer clothes disappearing from the shelves in favor of earth-tone sweaters and fall coats in mid-summer, and swim suits and slinky tops all over the place in February. (The cruise-wear market cannot be that big.)
flea - Sep 17, 2012 10:17:20 am PDT #22415 of 30001
information libertarian
Yup, I got the "winter coat" issues of the kids' clothes catalogs I get (Lands End, Hanna Andersson) last week. Last week it was in the lower 80s; we're only just breaking into sweatshirts, never mind winter coats. But "fall" is on sale, which is actually good as I take stock of what long pants still fit my kids from last year.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 17, 2012 10:19:08 am PDT #22416 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Happy birthday, Lee!
Happy 10 year anniversary, Phoenix board!