Thank you for your kind words chloehandbags. We are all writers here.
I hope you will write more about your mother and grandmother. I think we have a lot in common in those areas, so of course I have a particular interest to learn more, but I think the gifts those ladies gave you, and their stories, would be not only fun to learn about for its own sake, but could be a real inspiration and help to the writers of many of the words I see here, especially by very young girls, in their quest for that magical potion of tolerance for others and unshakable confidence in ones own self.
And thus we see some consumers who long to acquire, and delight in possession of the latest and greatest to emerge from a particular house because that is THEIR designer! And are oblivious to another point you make - if the design is being imitated everywhere from other famous name design houses to the aspiring young designer paying their dues working for the Wal-Mart house brand - that is because the design is a GOOD one (or at least one that has immense popular appeal) and if other people are imitating it, they are not stealing from the designer, they are paying her homage, and that is a Good Thing (TM). You don't see any car companies imitating DeLoreans!
The more I think about it, the more I think the bubble skirt is a revival. Wasn't it called the balloon skirt before? And what decade was it? Or did I just have a bad dream...?
I hope you will write more about your mother and grandmother. I think we have a lot in common in those areas, so of course I have a particular interest to learn more, but I think the gifts those ladies gave you, and their stories, would be not only fun to learn about for its own sake, but could be a real inspiration and help to the writers of many of the words I see here, especially by very young girls, in their quest for that magical potion of tolerance for others and unshakable confidence in ones own self.
djgirl you have knocked it out of the ballpark. There truly is a sort of devotion, even an identification, that develops sometimes, in some ways no different from the way we feel about any favorite artist, except that the designers work adorns our bodies, we carry it on our arms and shoulders, wear it on our feet.we may tend to "connect" ourselves to the work of our favorite designers.
And thus we see some consumers who long to acquire, and delight in possession of the latest and greatest to emerge from a particular house because that is THEIR designer! And are oblivious to another point you make - if the design is being imitated everywhere from other famous name design houses to the aspiring young designer paying their dues working for the Wal-Mart house brand - that is because the design is a GOOD one (or at least one that has immense popular appeal) and if other people are imitating it, they are not stealing from the designer, they are paying her homage, and that is a Good Thing (TM). You don't see any car companies imitating DeLoreans!
The more I think about it, the more I think the bubble skirt is a revival. Wasn't it called the balloon skirt before? And what decade was it? Or did I just have a bad dream...?