Not one of my hunts for fashion shopping, the Burlington Coat Factory, has proved to be a carrying out a scam on shoppers wanting a bargain. At a time when everyone is looking to trim the fat from our fashion budgets, Burlington Coat Factory decided to sell K-Mart coats after covering the label with fake one of named designers! Shoppers were able to easily remove the labels and noticed the coats came from K-Mart!
K-Mart sold the coats for $30.00. The name brand would have been $200.00. So the $70.00 asked by Burlington Coat Factory was a steal. Folks, in this day of looking for bargains, if it looks to good to be true, it probably is!! Remember, as Judge Joe Brown often says, “caveat emptor.” Let the buyer beware!
Since I shop from QVC, this would have never happen to them. First, a product is not just bought and then sold to their customers. It has to go through product inspectors and if it does not pass inspections out it goes.
So remember buyers, CAVEAT EMPTOR! Let the Buyer Beware!!!
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When I was in my twenties, I moved to California. And being young, I rarely needed an outer coat. I have always adored leather, but back in the day, designers thought that big girls should not sport leather goods. Well let me tell you those days are gone! Full figured females and ladies of advanced age can and do wear leather!!
I am now in clothing heaven. Designers have dropped the old style boxy leather coats and jackets. Leather is now so soft and supple that it can be fashioned into styles never thought possible before. You don’t even have to put them away in the Spring. Leather is so light that it can be worn as a part of the total outfit and worn indoors all day like your other jackets.
One designer that makes jackets that fit this niche is Bradley Bayou. He dresses many of the stars and is known for fitting problem figures. His jackets have that couture fit where the seaming hides flaws and accentuates the positive points of a woman’s body. In his book, “The Science of Sexy“, he explains his philosophy of making women look their best.
Watching his jacket with all the colors, navy and yes black. But there was lime, cooper, and he has done white. My white jacket had a woman chase me across the parking lot to ask where I got it. She then told me how good it looked. My friends know that I am a 1X.
What am I saying? Try leather for the Spring and give your outfits a real boost with a couture designed jacket that caresses your figure and brights out it’s best features! Leather is indeed better.
By now you should know that I love color and prints be they animal or abstract. With this being said, I would like to add that I love Whoopi Goldberg! I think she is articulate and is a breath of fresh air on The View where uber conservatism runs wild. Now here is where we are miles apart, as if she cares. But I have to comment on her mode of dressing.
I know she is not a girly girl and is more a sport conservative dresser, but whoever picks her clothes should be taken out back and thrashed. If she does the choosing, she needs help badly! Whoopi will never be Halle Berry, but with her charm and smile, she need not look like she closed her eyes and took her wardrobe from the Goodwill bag on a bad day!
Her choice on Oscar night was the worse of the worse! No one over the size “0″ should put on that much animal print. It’s a wonder some big game hunter didn’t take a shot at her!
Whoopi, it’s ok to have your own style, but try for something that enhances your spirit and great smile. As your talent speaks for itself!
The fact that I am not an “expert” does not mean I don’t know what looks good or what is pretty. I think when you see a style come around at least twice in your lifetime and you don’t like it either time, it is just bad! And I don’t mean bad in a good way! Grunge was lost on me the first time around. Who can wear this style except maybe a teenager or some heavy metal rockstar. Shades of Debbie Harry!
I know that Fashion Week is for designers to showcase their wears. Some for the public and others that are wild and avant garde. Well Mark Jacobs broke the boundaries of good taste with styles so far out that they made no sense.
I love colors! But his pink, which was shown often, was so bright that it made Pepto Bismol look dull! Grown women in knee high striped socks. And the the hairstyles that went with these clothes looked as if the stylist was high on crack followed by shots of 100 proof Whiskey!
To say that I thought this was a waste of good runway time is putting it mildly. Sorry Mark, your designs made me shudder in horror!
This high fashion week show, by invitation only, brought out the hippest designers and is the predictor of what we should be wearing for spring.
After looking at two hours of the new items, I came to one conclusion. If you are not slim or at least fit, these fashions will be hard to wear. There are a lot of short jackets that reach only to the waist and skinny pants are still in. Those of us with a lot of junk in the trunk might find these hard to wear.
One of the new designers was uber conservative Elizabeth Hasslebeck of the View. Not one of my favorite people to be sure. She brought fabrics and styles that looked, at least to me, that would look better on those who go by the rule you are never too thin. I did like the look of one of her blouses. It was a one shoulder number. But I was wondering how a real woman who needed a bra could wear it. I must not have gotten the memo because they do have bras to wear with this style.
Hasselback, as well of the other designers, are taking jackets in a new direction. They are softer, but constructed with seaming that gives them a great fit. Her fashion had great color and high style but I don’t see how they will translate to the average woman who wears a 16 or larger.