So yesterday, I spent the afternoon with Slim, at an auction house here in Chicago. They were having an extensive sale of Vintage Couture and Accessories - Vintage, using the term loosely... Specifically, we wanted to see if it was within budget to bid on either of these two:
Turned out that things went a bit too rich for our budgets, but the contrast between the things we saw at the auction, and the contents of my email inbox when I got back to my desk, was striking:
There's nothing particularly wrong with thinking about next year's colors - if you're in the fashion industry. But the difference between clothes that were impossible to date, and the implied "temporary-ness" of the lists of garments and colors, made me stop and think...
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| images from the extremely amazing Leslie Hindman Auctions. FWIW there's another auction today, which you can view at their website |
Turned out that things went a bit too rich for our budgets, but the contrast between the things we saw at the auction, and the contents of my email inbox when I got back to my desk, was striking:
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| Under NO circumstances are these items essential, or even necessarily a good idea... |
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| I know fashion is for people who plan ahead - far ahead - but I'm still wearing the colors from Spring 2013! |
There's nothing particularly wrong with thinking about next year's colors - if you're in the fashion industry. But the difference between clothes that were impossible to date, and the implied "temporary-ness" of the lists of garments and colors, made me stop and think...
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