Word: tagging
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Sulmers is a fashion-conscious New York writer, but unlike never-wears-the-same-bra-twice Carrie Bradshaw, she’s a bona fide human being who shows that the price tag for fabulousness doesn’t have to cost you your rent or your sanity...
...waists and 35-inch hips.” Within the same article, readers’ attention was drawn to the increasingly popular fashion industry phenomenon of “vanity sizing,” which entails enlarging the size of the actual clothing, while allowing the number on the tag to remain unchanged. The result, which the article describes as “self-delusion on a mass scale,” leads to a bevy of women running around in size six clothes and feeling great about it, when in reality they might be closer to a size...
...women who are truly overweight, allowing them to believe that they’re smaller than they actually are might seem like a benevolent, “feel-good” practice on the part of clothing companies. Instead, it places undue emphasis on the number on the clothing tag rather than the vitality and self-esteem of the woman wearing the clothes...
...prices can be beguiling; they do not always reflect the true costs of production. Significant economic costs are excluded from the price tag at the grocery store...
There's a bolt of pathos in that tale, but in truth it was accessible design that made the name famous. "Tahari's success comes from the fact that the look is not too fashion forward and not too conservative," says Dana Telsey, CEO of Telsey Advisory Group (TAG), an independent research firm. "They've also captured a very wide audience--both the upper-end consumer and the aspirational consumer...