I'm giving myself a pat on the back for this one. I've been campaigning for this via customer surveys since 2013 or so. I was finally invited to be a member of the Gap Inc. Insiders panel, and I've been blowing them up over there too. I'd love to see Gap follow suit since I … Continue reading Old Navy Did The Right Thing
Like many of you, during quarantine I found time to develop some new hobbies and revisit old ones. On the old side, I bought a keyboard as a gift to myself on Valentine's Day and have started playing piano again. It's really tapped into my right brain. I didn't realize it, but working at home … Continue reading Adventures in Quarantine
A couple weeks ago, I found out that Ann Taylor Loft is phasing out its plus sized clothing at the end of this year. When they first launched, I bought a lot of work separates--they had the best quality slacks in the game and I gave them rave reviews in my 2019 post about the … Continue reading Dear Loft, You Suck
I got triggered today, when I was listening to a podcast today (not going to name it because I don't like them enough to give free promo) and the topic of body shaming came up in regards to Lizzo. She posts a lot of half naked photos and people say she's doing too much, but … Continue reading Plus Size Problems
The new normal foisted upon us by the coronavirus pandemic has fully exposed every fault line in American society. The retail apocalypse is here and the empty Sears at my local mall proves it. Of course, the carrion crow that is Amazon continues to feed off the leftovers. Three years ago, I wrote glowingly about … Continue reading Conscious Consumerism
Millennials get a lot of crap. We're stuck in childhood, we lived with our parents too long, we're killing the napkin industry and business formal dress codes, etc etc. Of course, a lot of Boomers act like we haven't experienced three recessions; the collective trauma of 9/11 and repeated mass shootings; and the realization that … Continue reading Millennials Are The Torchbearer Generation