Look Out for The Fashion Police
Casually doing a bit of window shopping more than one years back in one of Italy’s ‘oh so fashionable’ little lane ways, I noticed that pointy toe stiletto’s were everywhere. Glancing down at my round toe Mary Jane’s I’d just bought before leaving Australia, I was sentiment both repulsed and anxious. Repulsed because I thought pointy toe stiletto’s were ugly, and anxious because I knew it was only a matter of time before I would be forking out the lire to buy them. Two weeks later, I had succumbed. The trend had gotten the better of me, despite how foolish I looked when the heels got caught in the uneven Italian pavement every time I walked down the street (which was when it comes to each three steps). So what was it that changed my mind? I believe the answer lies in the hands of, well, a handful of people called ‘Trend Analysts’ AKA The Fashion Police. Their job: To serve and protect the commercial interests of fashion companies all over the globe. How? By dissecting the public’s psychology of what are going to be the next trend are going to be via extensive travel and buying goods expeditions (those bastards). These ‘trend analysts’ then report back to analysis companies, who then go on to consolidate their determinations in industry magazines and web sites for the use of fashion companies. I’d like to say that fashion companies use analysis companies because they are lazy, but it’s certainly not the case. They are just scared to make a mistake (may you imagine fabricating 1000 pairs of high waisted skinny leg jeans just to find that everybody was going for low rise bootleg? Ebay auctioning them is NOT a resolution here). There are likewise unbelievable time constraints amongst the seasons. So most designers design their range around what they’re fed, and whether or not they are lucky they get to travel around Europe and Japan to buy garments to ‘take inspiration from’. They’re we get a slight variation of the trend theme each season; all our designers are buying goods in the same store in London! They’re you want to see something genuinely interesting, just notice the women with suitcases in major division stores buying size ten (when They’re size 12) at the begin of each season. Ask them what they are up to for a living. May you see we are at the hands of a conspiracy! ? We require to take action. I urge you to burn your pleather DKNY handbags! Let’s make up our own trends! I myself am going to knit and extended version of the merkin (If you don’t know what one is, I advise you Google it because I’m surely not with regards to to explain). Yep, it is going to be a toasty winter for me rugged up in my black merkin cardigan… Which brings me back to my first thought at the beginning of this piece (merkins similarly have the power to bring humans back to what they were originally thinking). What was it that made me purchase those pointy toe high heels I now so dearly cherish? I believe it comes down to one word: Agreement. Agreement by trend analysts, agreement by industry magazines, agreement by designers, agreement in fashion magazines, agreement all around the stores, and ultimately, agreement by you. Agreement brings about our fashion reality. Not always bad, but within the safety of agreement comes a absence or unavailability of invention. And that’s why we need those quirky fashion revolutionaries; so we may steel their ideas, formulate them times a million, and sell the homogenized version back to you. Back to square one. We again enter into a state of agreement. Weird world we’re living in ain’t it? Now where did I put my knitting needles and my merkin ‘wool’ supply. . ?
Storing Your CDs
There are many different storage alternatives for
your CD collection. The factors for storage include
how many CDs you own and how long you plan to keep
them.
Below, you will find several alternatives for
storing your CDs:
1. CD jewel cases
You have probably owned these before, as they are
the most common. They can hold your CD cover art and
are very easy to line up on a shelf. Keep in mind
that they do break rather easily and they take up
quite a bit of space.
2. Plastic CD sleeves
Plastic sleeves are cheap and thin, so they are
easy to afford and easy on shelf space. Since they
are so thin, they obviously don’t offer a lot in
terms of protection. For long term storage, they
generally aren’t recommended.
3. Paper sleeves
For short term storage needs, paper is very cheap
and doesn’t use much space. Simliar to plastic
sleeves, paper is thin and doesn’t offer very
much protection.
4. Paperboard sleeves
Paperboard sleeves are much thicker than paper so
they will protect your discs. They are also
inexpensive, although they can be hard to seal.
5. Tyvek CD sleeves
Tyvek sleeves are cheap and they don’t take up
a lot of space. For long term storage, Tyvek is
normally recommended.
6. CD-ROM disc cases
These types of cases can hold a lot of CDs in a
small space and they may even help to keep out
dust. They do however, make reading labels a bit
hard, they keep CDs out of site, and they will
take up a lot of space.
7. CD spindles
Spindles are cheap and they hold several hundred
CDs in a small stack. Sorting through them is
hard if you need one specific disk, which makes
it something that isn’t normally recommended.


