Posted on 04/21/2015 9:14:28 AM PDT by Cecily
The debut of the Lilly Pulitzer collection for Target was a spectacular feat of retailing that had very little to do with the quality of the fashion that the mass marketer was selling. Lilly Pulitzer is not fashion. It is clothes. The classic Lilly Pulitzer dress comes in shrill shades of yellow and pink that are vaguely infantilizing. They are clothes that can be shrunk down and worn by 7-year-old girls without changing a single design element if there were actual design elements to change. But there are not.
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Oh.....meow!
Her clothes look perfect for Helen Roper of the TV series Three’s Company.
Lime green & hot pink cotton sacks...definitely not my style.
looks to be resort wear...
These would be just regular clothes in Hawaii.
Nothing unusual at all. Bright colors, prints, loose fitting. Perfect for tropical locations.
All she is doing is appropriating Hawaiian and South Pacific fashion for the whole country. I don’t think it’s really appropriate to dress like that in Boston, but to each his own.
I rather like styles (food, clothing, architecture, etc.) to be specific to a certain place or region. Otherwise you get Anywhere USA or Anywhere, Earth. No diversity at all when you travel.
Funny, but my Y chromosome leaves me as confused by this fashion spat as a dog looking at a color blindness test.
I happen to love Pulitzer’s clothing, although I could never afford it.
As for marketing, the entire Target roll-out was over and done before I heard of it. Oh the irony!
I’d love to see how Robin Givens dresses, and......can anyone guess what Givens would think of Pulitzer’s line if Mooch wore it?
I don't know if LP clothing comes in plus sizes. ;)
“......can anyone guess what Givens would think of Pulitzers line if Mooch wore it?”
Most of the clothes, colors and patterns that the Mooch wears make anything by Lilly Pulitzer look positively drab and sedate, but since Mooch’s loud colors and patterns aren’t Palm Beach Pulitzer, old white money class markers, they are A-Okay in Robin’s book.
She’s been doing it since the 50’s . . . for beach and resort wear loud green and pink clothing. So it must be working. Besides, Lilly passed away in 2013 but her legacy continues on in the company she founded.
Not a fan of the Target frenzy with this or the Missoni or anything else. And I certainly wouldn’t pay triple the price for it on eBay.
welcome to bollywood.
How racially can a fashion article be? Apparently very much so. This Givhan “fashionista” has a significant chip on her shoulder.
It’s spring, after a long dreary, gray colorless winter. Spring clothes are pastelish and summer pallets bright and sunny. What’s the big deal? Bright, affordable, easily accessible (Target) clothing sold to the 97%
The “things” thst cause faux “outrage.” Pfffffft!
As to this article’s elitist female author, I have one thing to say:
Meow......
The Target LP clothes can be found on ebay starting at twice the original price. I heard of people buying entire racks in the store and 250 pieces at a time online so as to sell it on ebay.
The only fashion that would look good on the authoress would be a burka. Hence the anger.
Yeah, not sure what the author’s problem is. My wife likes the style, I’m OK with it (on her, I’ll go REI). It does carry that feel of upper-class beach/country-club casual without the gratuitous raging pricetags expected of the elite. Limited-run availability keeps a sense of special/fresh/unique. Nice stuff. Why author is so down on it, even more so with overtones of the Target masses accessing it, is baffling.
LP did cultivate a customer subculture eager for the limited-run releases, which would sell out fast and resell at much higher prices.
Robin Givhan’s remarks are founded in envy and class hatred. She tends not to like what is healthy, pretty, innocent, happy, or is appealing to successful funloving white women.
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