ARE CHRISTMAS SALES REALLY DISAPPOINTING? If so, it may be because women’s fashion has missed the boat. Rachel Lucas expresses this view in her own inimitable fashion:

The biggest issue is WHO IN THE HELL IS MAKING THESE CLOTHES? I mean for f*ck’s sake, people. I haven’t seen such ugliness in all my life, even the 1970s. Everything is orange and pink and bright red, covered in ridiculous patterns that make you have a migraine. Nobody wants this sh*t! You can tell because of every item, there are 50 each of the orange, pink, and bright red left, but maybe one green and one blue remaining, either in extra-small or extra-large. Get a clue, designers. A g*ddamn CLUE. . . . Who slept through design class the day it was explained that MOST women have what we call a FIGURE, which means their waist and their hips are not the exact same circumference? We’ve been over this before and I will spare you another rant about it. It’s enough to say that by the time I came out of the dressing room, I was almost in tears and ready to start killin’. . . . You want women to spend money, try making attractive clothes for normal human females. It can’t be that hard. GAH!

The rest of her post also offers other, er, clues to why people might have chosen to stay home. I’m glad I did nearly all of my shopping online! (Via Colborne 2016).

UPDATE: Another post on this theme from Peg Kaplan: “From Macy’s to Nordstrom’s to TJMaxx and points inbetween, I saw enormous quantities of clothing that I wouldn’t wear if someone paid me to do so. After over an hour of pawing through racks and racks and racks of sweaters, blouses, jackets and more that I couldn’t imagine putting in my closet, much less wearing on my body, I could only think to myself: ‘No wonder stores are complaining. Who, other than some 15 to 24 year olds, would buy this stuff?'”