I would guess it is the most iconic perfume bottle there is. And I don’t wear perfume either.
Gotta admit with no obscenity… just saw that shirt today on a student. I, too, perplexed. She’s a 5th grader, so it’s useless thinking I’d get any enlightenment from there. So I’m thinking is this a pretty heavily veiled reference to Chanel, with the N+superscript o? Or is this a jab by some anti-French American xenophobe? Really, I just don’t know. Help?
Did you read the thread?
But that’s the *charm *of the place, dontcha know. You can come in here with a perfectly innocent question posed in a neutral tone with no lit-up hot buttons that you can see and the next thing you know, your underwear (or knickers, if you’re a Brit) is hanging from the goalposts and you’re being beaten with rolled-up newspapers. Every time you click the “submit reply” button, you’re askin’ for it. It’s why I keep coming back. :dubious:
Apparently it’s a jab at the fashion industry, specifically Chanel, and it is utterly stupid for reasons I already mentioned. But what I really felt when I saw it and did not understand its “clever message” is that it is tasteless in light of recent events. I saw it literally 2 days after the Paris attacks and while it’s been pointed out that it is just an unfortunate coincidence, I think a store manager with some freakin’ decorum could have shelved them for a bit.
Ooh, are we back to outrage now? I thought you were over the rage.
Not rage, just responding to inskspiller. But, just out of curiosity, what’s it to you? I specifically stated that the (momentary, misdirected)“rage” had disappeared right about the time the “explanation” for the shirt was given. You seem to want to paint me as enraged, to what end, I do not know.
I’m not painting you any way, but from your posts in the thread it’s been clear that you enjoy searching for ways to get offended. You vacillated on just how offended based on learning what it meant (and also in the process becoming offended by the responses you got), and now a few months later you’re back to taking offense that they continued selling the shirts despite your delicate sensibilities. I just find that curious.
Nope; that’s all your projection. ONE post - my initial post - made it clear that I saw something that felt wrong and I asked for clarity because I doubted myself. There’s been nothing in this thread or any other that even slightly suggests that I “enjoy searching for ways to get offended”. I also didn’t vacillate about anything. I asked once, clarified why I was asking, and accepted the explanations given, though it of course fell on deaf ears because people were too busy doing precisely what you’re doing now. I happened to come across this resurrected thread in which someone who also didn’t *get *the shirt questioned it and I stated my opinion, which stands. Your tone in your previous post very much indicates a certain amount of condescension and again, I don’t know why. If you’re just taking the piss for the fun of it, well, there’s a name for that. But kindly do not keep ascribing motives to me that only exist within your own mind.
Haute couture. It means “high culture” in French. Now, what was your outrage about?
Um… Actually, not. “Culture” in French is, well, “culture”. The term “couture”, in French, means (in this context) “fashion”. Literally it means something like “stitching”, but when modified by “haute”, the whole means “high-level fashion” (with a hint of “pretentious high-level fashion”).
I’m not sure right now. I was off the Internet for a few days last week and do missed the instructions to be outraged at something about the halftime show at the Superbowl, and I have not yet received my marching orders for the next outrage.
I suspect it will be something to do with something one of the candidates says.