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- Two (separate) questions:
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- I got an office job again, and needed some new dress shirts. All the good ones JCPenney had were white, the only patterened ones at all were really cheap, and looked it. The only other ones were some frightening solid colors lifted directly from Rio Mardi Gras (with matching ties, no less!). I don’t follow fashion much, but is white the in thing now? They have a reasonably big selection, but had no pinstripes at all, and no empty shelf space…
- At the store where I (mostly) work, there’s a surprising (to me) nmber of people who get really irate if they can’t find the Welch’s jelly tumblers they’re looking for…? The overstock is stacked above the store shelves, and if there’s any full cases on top, they’ll get a ladder themselves, get the cases down, and search through them. The Welch’s company history page on their site notes that (in 2000) “Pokémon jelly tumblers prove a big winner, driving tumbler business up 33% for the year.” WhoTF collects these things? Do they use them for anything, or just collect them?
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First thing:
White is apparently the new black.
:rolleyes: Whatever. But maybe that’s why there’s so much of it.
Second thing:
My grandma used to buy the Welch’s things, and use them as glasses (she wasn’t a big volume drinker). I wouldn’t say she got militant about it, but she had more than one in her kitchen.
I myself can’t fathom why you’d want to collect something like that, but different strokes…
I think solid shirts are “in” right now. If you go to a store that specializes more in suits, they’ll probably have more traditional pinstripe stuff. Maybe Structure? I got a women’s pinstripe shirt at Express last month; it’s an affiliate of Structure. Maybe they’re in for the women, out for the men. :rolleyes:
As far as the other question: My theory is that if you put the word “collectible” on anything, there will be a segment of the population that HAS to have it. I remember having a few of those tumblers for glasses as a kid, but we outgrew them pretty quickly.