I opened the most recent copy of Garden & Gun magazine, and I laughed out loud. Not at the Roy Blount, Jr., humor piece it contained. Not at a joke or intentionally humorous piece, actually. At the ensemble in the Table of Contents:
Go ahead, if you dare, and click for full size. Then, note in the lower left corner, this text:
Crop top, $3,990, and skirt, $9,700, by Zuhair Murad, at zuhairmurad.com.
That yellow outfit costs as much as a car.
I wonder how much more expensive if the top had sleeves and covered the belly completely.
I can’t talk, of course, as I’m a bit of a clothes horse myself these days. Why, just two weeks ago, I bought a new shirt at Walmart for $9 because the shirts I’ve received as inheritances from my father-in-law (fifteen years ago), uncle-in-law (seven years ago), and mother (six years ago) are starting to show some wear. And I’m outgrowing them as I continue to triumph over being underweight.
