{"id":180,"date":"2006-02-17T16:54:42","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T20:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/02\/17\/the-way-we-shop-now\/"},"modified":"2006-02-17T16:54:42","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T20:54:42","slug":"the-way-we-shop-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/02\/17\/the-way-we-shop-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way We Shop Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1145'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/16\/fashion\/thursdaystyles\/16SPRING.html?ex=1297746000&amp;en=351a7ab40224e706&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">this Times&#8217; article<\/a> regarding the blurring of fashion seasons, provides another explanation for why I am less thrift store reliant now:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Retailers are determined to stand winter on its head, hoping to tempt<br \/>\nwomen to shop, not once or twice a season as their mothers and<br \/>\ngrandmothers did, but steadily, and spontaneously, throughout the year.<br \/>\nTo compete with fashion-driven mass merchants like Zara and H&amp;M,<br \/>\nwhich bring in new wares weekly and sell summer-weight clothes<br \/>\nyear-round, department stores too are increasingly blurring the seasons.\n<\/div>\n<p>\nSpeaking of fashion-on-the-street, I&#8217;ve noticed the return of the black<br \/>\nstockings, white flats combination.&nbsp; Though very mod, it&#8217;s<br \/>\nsomething that I&#8217;ve always avoided because my mother told me when I was<br \/>\n6 never to wear that pairing because it was &#8220;the Mickey Mouse<br \/>\nlook.&#8221;&nbsp; Also, though, I will wear leggings with flats, under a<br \/>\nshort skirt, you have license to send me home if you catch me wearing<br \/>\nleggings in any other context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that this Times&#8217; article regarding the blurring of fashion seasons, provides another explanation for why I am less thrift store reliant now: Retailers are determined to stand winter on its head, hoping to tempt women to shop, not once or twice a season as their mothers and grandmothers did, but steadily, and spontaneously, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}