Friday, August 04, 2006

neighbor lady?

Usually I really like Anthropologie's names for things. "camelot boots" or "dancing butterfly sandals" or "azure skies eyelet blouse" or some such nonsense, they always conjure up an image that, more often than not, is better than the item of clothing itself. But someone had an off day recently:

neighbor lady?

I don't want to look like a neighbor lady. A neighbor lady is single, middle aged, childless (or widowed and children have left home), and invites you over around Christmas when you're six and gives you a cookie and a little decoration for your Christmas tree that she sewed herself. I have good memories of neighbor lady, but I have no desire to BE neighbor lady.

Further troublesome points: why is it black? Is neighbor lady in mourning? Why does it look like it belongs to a pregnant woman? How on earth is it "the most popular on the block?" Finally, and perhaps most troublesome of all, why does neighbor lady have pockets for lollipops and bandaids? Surely it's for the children "on the block". . . but why do I have the strange feeling that the items in the pockets are actually. . . for herself?

1 comment:

Marie said...

Neighbor lady being both pregnant and "the most popular on the block" has an entirely different set of negative connotations as well... someone was stuck in the Anthropologie offices at 5:45 on a Friday...!