the infallible media tell me that inflation is at its worst level since ducth reagan rode high in the white house saddle ( economic woes under the adminsitration of the "best president ever"? nancy wouldn't like that )...and this may actually be true...lines of evidence are increasing daily...the price of hot dogs is up...
and even the faux surrealist pretention of the cover of last sunday's new york times "style" magazine's "women's fashion" issue can't divert attention from significant differences in presentation...and those differences would be in the communication of the cost of haute couture...as i leafed through the glossy color pages of the non-elitist times signature piece of consumerist propaganda i could not help but notice both the dearth of quoted fashion prices and the daunting number of "price upon request" captions...sticker shock comes to fashion...( and the time's elitist slip is showing..they need to be called on this in perpetuity )...still...
that is $203030 of clothing no self-respecting maid or matron of the upper crust should be forced to do without...there is a reason for fashion...the wealthy know this and have a keen eye for subtle displays of their superior social standing...why else would they covet a $6500 shirt ( it's allegedly in there somewhere ) and, as something of a poke in the eye of the economically oppressed, a $6150 scarf...no one said style was cheap.
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