Historically, when the world wore color the times were happier.
And so I have come to a hopeful conclusion that what occurred at the Target online store site was a truism proving my point.
“Missoni is an Italian fashion house based in Varese. It is famous for its unique knitwear, made from a variety of fabrics in colourful patterns. The company was founded by Ottavio ("Tai") and Rosita Missoni in 1953.” Thanks to Wikipedia.
Previously the Missoni line was only for the wealthy and sold at stores such as Saks in only the best fabrics, and still does, but always known for its signature “Missoni knitwear is known for its multitude of patterns such as stripes, geometrics, and abstract florals, in a kaleidoscope of colours. They are also known for the liberal use of many different fabrics such as wool, cotton, linen, rayon and silk.” Thanks again from Wikipedia. Many patterns were inspired by tapestries from all over the world.
And so when a reasonably priced Missoni line began selling online yesterday via Target within six hours the site crashed, sales were supposed to continue for three days, but so many wanted it all and decided that the first day was the day to make their purchases of all the different types of products available from stationery, clothing, pillows, to boots, totes, etc. for the first time at prices the middle class could feel good about, well the rest is fashion, now, considered ‘Black Tuesday’, history! HA! And oh what a feeling!
It does a soul good to see that much interest in something’s so happy!
The line screams with good cheer, as color should!
Yes, my fashion background sprung into action on hearing the reports of all this… and also my remembrance of what used to be the norm in times of a depression from my costume history classes what a war period’s usual was. Clothing represents the feelings of our nation, dull and drab was the way we dressed for three of the four wars of the last century and that was how we felt as a nation, misery.
The only reason during the Viet Nam War that wasn’t quite the case is because many were confused on how to feel, but that is just my opinion. But even you would have to admit with flower power, free love and florals and geometric patterns abounding on almost just about anything in many, not only at homes decorated with those, but also on clothing and artful prints, even on cars or many a VW bus!
The tone of a nation can and has been expressed by how we dress and therefore decorate our homes. YES!
Emotions are directly connected to color, think of black for funerals, white for weddings, and wild colors in times of just showing you are HAPPY about something special in your life!
I love that the bad economy in the news at times has been disproved of what so many of us are doing with buying products that in desperately hard times are nonessentials but make good and profitable business sense by keeping the retailers going … and for our own sakes might even become collector’s items in the future!
Who knows but when people rally for a non-profit organization or disaster drive for funds beyond belief that amazes me with all that our country is dealing with financially and then to become a bit frivolous but economically smart to shop to directly help the retail market is beyond words and I can see the clouds lifting off of our sad collective lives! And for that I applaud loudly! Keep it going America! We can do this together… shop!
I knew things always seemed the darkest before the dawn… and now hooray we may be dawning, ya think?
Moving on…
Hubby installed my corner shelves in the kitchen we purchased Sunday from the Home Depot for less than it would have cost to make them from scratch, see sometimes you just gotta think that way… and we even figured it numerically. To make four rounded finished white shelves would have been like forty-eight bucks but this was just a bit over thirty, how about that? See being consumers can be fun and frugal. Do not adjust your picture, it only looks crooked due to the photographer, me, I seem to be doing that alot lately!
Still working on what I will place on the shelves, right now those items are my space holders, heaven knows I have lotsa of things to chose from…maybe I will change them out and decide after I play with them awhile, we all know I have too much time on my hands… but Hubby has to do the rearranging since I can’t reach, but he does too, have time on his hands…ha!
On that wee bit of silly allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?
Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
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