I haven't been posting the last few days because I was busy at the CURVE Lingerie show at the Javits center in NYC. We go twice a year to buy lingerie for the store. Currently we are shopping for spring of 2016. You have to be ahead of the game and get whats on trend for the next season.
The way it works is you walk up to the booth and sit down and they give you line sheets with all of there products. Then they take the bras and panties and robes and what not off of the rack to show you the fabric and the style. If you want to see what it looks like on a person they have a couple of models who put it on and let you check it out.
It is not as much fun as you might think it is. It is actually tough because you have to make a lot of decisions in a very short period of time. You can make a lot of mistakes that are going to cost you a lot of money.
But it does have some compensations. One of our vendors Trumiph invited us to a cocktail party and fashion show:
These are the jobs that Americans will still do. So there were no Mexicans. Just sayn'
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On a plane to New York, I met a guy who was going there to interview some people with a view to hiring one of them as a weatherman for the tv station he worked at. I asked him what made for a successful weatherman. He said he didn't know exactly but he knew it when he saw it. His job depended on his ability to pick a successful weatherman. Bummer. Just too many variables for anyone to be consistently good at it. He seemed nervous and unsure of himself. I wouldn't hire him to hire weather personnel, but maybe the anxiety gave him an edge......I wouldn't want my livelihood to depend on my ability to predict women's taste in undergarments. I certainly know what I like, but I wouldn't want to bet the store that my taste in any way corresponds to that of a significant proportion of the female population. When did women stop wearing girdles and why did they stop. I know corsets can be sexy, but those rubberized Playtex things were just uncomfortable without any seductive qualities. If I were an underwear buyer I would never purchase them. No pantyhose either. There aren't a lot of women who can wear thongs, so I probably shouldn't buy too, too many of those either, but maybe if you bought a lot and in a lot of different styles, the store would attract a younger, more affluent crowd than if you stocked up on orthopedic panties. So many things to consider.
I hear granny panties, or what The Blonde calls elephant pants, are coming back.
Just as well, since women aren't allowed to have hips or behinds or thighs, I never saw the point of thongs.
Great of you taking one for the team this way, sir.
William said...
When did women stop wearing girdles and why did they stop.
If memory serves, pantyhose killed them.
The idea of a girdle was twofold; to act in place of muscles that had too much material to restrain or had seen better days, and to restrain a woman who was well-endowed below the waist (remember, this is before the Slob Culture and McDonald's (various undergarments served a similar purpose for a woman a little too well-developed above the waist, also)) for propriety.
Ditching your girdle went hand-in-hand with burning your bra. Problem was, a lot of women thought that, just because they'd be wearing pants, they didn't have to worry about how their rear looked. Since pants are really for men (no hips, no behind, no thighs), how they look on a woman can be, uh, problematic.
I know corsets can be sexy, but those rubberized Playtex things were just uncomfortable without any seductive qualities
You miss the point. Girdles were for the effect under a skirt, not something to be paraded in front of Hubbo in the master bedroom in Scarsdale when the kids were off at Aunt Martha's.
Troop, you know that the uglies run fashion while the pretties done what the uglies have made. All the people behind the fashion seen are hideous inside and out. They have to be. How can you uplift an industry that is bolstered on the ridiculous.
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