{"id":5375,"date":"2012-08-12T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2012-08-12T19:45:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T23:45:59","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2012\/08\/12\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-180\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2012\/bc0727ng.html\">Rag Drag by Nicole Gelinas &#8211; City Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">This is so interesting. Maybe there will be a backlash, and people opt for some &#8220;artisan&#8221; clothing that lasts?<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nAs for accessibility and variety, Cline notes that you can\u2019t compare what a nice dress cost three decades, half a century, or even a century ago\u2014a few hundred dollars in today\u2019s inflated currency\u2014with what it costs in 2012. Why? Because back then, people could sew. If a middle-class or working-class woman wanted a designer knockoff, she wouldn\u2019t go to Zara and buy one for $10; she would select a pattern and a fabric, and get to work. Women\u2019s and girls\u2019 magazines featured sewing tips. Poorer people, especially children, had higher-quality charity castoffs. Look at an archival photo of a postwar kid at Coney Island, and you\u2019ll see that he\u2019s better dressed than today\u2019s kids.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the rich can pay up for a nice outfit\u2014thousands of dollars for a well-made dress or suit. But even the wealthy must practice caveat emptor; a top designer will try to sell you a $1,000 sweater made in China, with the label better hidden. And less-than-rich luxury seekers who choose a name-label polo top over a generic one aren\u2019t getting higher quality. As Cline puts it, consumers have learned to ask themselves, \u201cWhy buy a $75 Ralph Lauren polo shirt when it\u2019s not any better than the store-brand polo on the rack at Target?\u201d When a Shenzhen factory finishes its two shifts for a label, it often will run an identical third shift for the generic market.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/city_journal\">city_journal<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/nicole_gelinas\">nicole_gelinas<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/clothing\">clothing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/fashion\">fashion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/economy\">economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rag Drag by Nicole Gelinas &#8211; City Journal This is so interesting. Maybe there will be a backlash, and people opt for some &#8220;artisan&#8221; clothing that lasts? QUOTE As for accessibility and variety, Cline notes that you can\u2019t compare what a nice dress cost three decades, half a century, or even a century ago\u2014a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}