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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
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But there is no way that window display is anything but nasty. Sorry. Just plain nasty. Poop on Barneys NY. It's official! They have shown themselves to be big doody heads.
The rich don't give a crap about the rest of us. Just a reminder.
words mean things. that's the problem here, i guess, at its crux.
anyway, this cartoon-on-the-barneys-window thing is dangerous territory. it's as though they're deliberately obfuscating their point, which i suspect it "har har, you are fat and can't wear our great clothes that you care about and definitely wish you could wear." gotta bad feeling about this. don't like it.
I scoured the Barney's website for a pair of the a fore-mentioned $4000 shorts.
They don't exist.
Not on the website, anyway. I think I saw the most expensive pair of shorts for around $500. Which is ridiculous in my opinion.
But then I remember that there are many places in this country where the idea of paying $3.00+ for cup of coffee is absurd and is carried aloft as some sort of anti-liberal rallying cry. Which is also fucking stupid.
All of which makes me realize how the internet sure makes it easy to craft horseshit hyperbole on a slow news day merely to generate some sort of self-perceived pseudo-underclass outrage.
Congratulations.
But if you're in Barneys bulimic target demographic, hatin' on the fatties sends you on a buying spree.
French women don't get fat.
Really? I guess you're not delusional too.
You mean a they're not a shop for fat and/or ugly birds? Good luck with that Progressive womyn's shop, you can call it 'The Fisherman's Wife'. Put in a tattoo parlor called 'Stretchable Tatts' and you have the Seattle womyn's perfect shop
But fat women are acutely aware that it's . . . physically impossible for them to buy high-end designer pieces.
Not being able to spend money on absurdly-priced clothing seems to me like a positive aspect being a fat woman.
Yeah, and not living to old age is a positive aspect of having AIDS.
Carry on purchasing your shapeless dumpy clothes at lane giant and fashion bug.
Believe me, I wish I couldn't tell the difference.
FYI big girls- "Two Big Blondes" in the CD. They'll hook you up!
EVERYTHING.
Except Lindy. Everything else, though, definitely.
But if this was actually commissioned by the corporation itself...well fuck. Several times Lindy I thought you were overreacting to slights or discussions of weight, but here I gotta say you're being way too nice. These people delight in making the store as overweight-unfriendly as they possibly can. I'm not overweight and though I've never been to Barneys, I have been to upscale stores apparently catered to obscenely rich 14 year-old girls. Thin ones. Saying that it might be a self-deprecating joke, instead of a fat-deprecating joke directed at the thin rich women who constitute their client base and can snigger as they go in, strikes me as an awfully generous reading.
I'm glad I'm a "larger" chick myself so I can quote this all the time without sounding like an asshole. Cause it is TRUTH.
Now back to more important matters, like finding those damn Doritos!
So yeah, I saw myself in the cartoon getting pissed at yet another piece of clothing that's either "menswear" or "military" or "boyfriend" styled . . . and size '0.' wtf!? urgh.
That said, I don't shop at Barney's, but they're a high-end retailer, like, for example, Nordstrom, and they practice "vanity sizing'. That means that if you actually need a size two, and not a four marked two, you can't buy them outside the teen department, where they are often cheap and trashy. That pisses me off, as it makes me go around in baggy pants, making me look even more like a prepubescent boy than I already do.
If the U.S. Government were to end Corporate Welfare, perhaps our great nation's entrepreneurs could focus on satisfying this need, rather than hiring lobbyists to kiss Congressional a-- to accompany a relative pittance in campaign contributions.
If Barney's chooses not to cater to plus-size women, well, those plus-size women will spend their money elsewhere, where it is welcome, and some smart businessperson will do very well serving this market.
Who cares if the media ignores such a company? 'No need to hire publicists to kiss reporters' a--es either, as word-of-mouth - for free - is the most credible advertising anyway. Media bias against people of size doesn't affect the cash register.
Also, please stop abusing ellipses.