Fashion trends of the new millenium

Oct 4 13:33 UTC 2000

How have fashions changed in the last two or three years?  Clothing, cars,
foods, houses, etc.  We had been predicting some major changes around the
millenium - for instance bright colors again instead of gloomy black as people
realized that the world was not really going to end.  There was even a fashion
for black dogs - has that changed now?  What breeds of dogs are now 'in'? 
Are iguanas still high-style?  What foods are faddish, and what are you
currently supposed to be avoiding if it is no longer fat? 

response 2 of 123:

Oct 4 17:26 UTC 2000

Whose fashions? 

response 4 of 123:

Oct 4 18:12 UTC 2000

Very bright colors pop up in fashion now and then, but tend to fall out of
fashion rather quickly and thoroughly.

100 years ago people wore black and brown almost all the time.

response 6 of 123:

Oct 4 18:17 UTC 2000

I pay attention to thermal transfer properties quite a bit... usually it means
wearing a coat in winter.  ;)

However, solar heat collection plays a factor in summer.  Summer is when all
the dark shirts sit in the bottom of the drawer.

response 8 of 123:

Oct 4 20:59 UTC 2000

According to some newspaper (either the NYTimes or the A2Snooze) the
"bra-strap-showing-bit" is an actual fashion statement.  Victoria's Secret
has special thingies to decorate them.
(Don't ask me, I only report what I read ;-)

response 10 of 123:

Oct 4 23:57 UTC 2000

150 years ago, when aniline dyes were invented, bright colors like purple were
in fashion for a while.  I think this was following a period of drab dark
colors, which followed a period of whites and pastels.  Anything for a change.
Are there any recent fashions in foods?  Is quiche still around?  It was a
common dorm lunch in the late sixties.  What are the dorms serving now?

response 12 of 123:

Oct 5 04:39 UTC 2000

I've rarely followed fashion trends.  I wore almost exclusively black for a
while, but it was mostly because I liked the color and it was amusing.  My
current jersey craze has put that to rest, and now I settle for conventional
clothing with little stylistic appeal with a jersey of some sort on top. 
Don't get me started on *those* trends.

response 14 of 123:

Oct 5 13:11 UTC 2000

lots of times what you purchase is a function of what stores are selling.

response 16 of 123:

Oct 5 14:56 UTC 2000

They try. "Can I buy that display?" and "How much for the lighting fixtures?"
But usually they only succeed during going-out-of-business sales, when those
items really ARE for sale (which is how I got Armand, my mannequin).

response 18 of 123:

Oct 5 19:05 UTC 2000

Somebody ahead of me in line at the K Mart in Emeryville a month ago was
trying to buy a sleeping bag that had been on a store shelf.  The cashier
couldn't get the computer to show a price for it, so she called the manager
over.  The manager insisted that while the sleeping bag may still have been
on the shelves, they didn't sell it anymore, and could only sell the customer
a more expensive sleeping bag that they still sold.  They held up the line
for about 20 minutes arguing about it.  Only in California...

response 20 of 123:

Oct 6 00:05 UTC 2000

  I have to admit that the last time I wanted to buy anything at K-Mart
  I wound up walking out because the line was way too long..  The store
  had close to twenty registers that could have been open but I don't
  think I've ever been in a K-Mart where more than three were going at
  any given time.  Poor customer service can kill you pretty quickly when
  you've got cutthroat competition..

response 22 of 123:

Oct 6 04:51 UTC 2000

It is a K-Mart thing. Trust me. As an employee I can tell you that K-Marts
are getting really bad at scheduling the right number of checkout operators.
Or biggest complaint is too much waiting. But what can we do when the dumb
fucks in upper management won't give us hours to work with. They'd rather keep
it in thier pockets with their nice little million dollar bonus check every
year. 200 K-Mart locations have been closed down nationwide in the last year.
Our stock value plummets more very day. Listen to me I'm saying "our"...ugh.
I mean THEIR stock value. I can without a doubt say that K-Mart is the
franchise most likely to disappear in the 1st decade of the century...if
things continue at this rate.

response 24 of 123:

Oct 6 05:42 UTC 2000

Ha.  You have no idea what bad checkouts are like.  Before you think that I'm
exagerating, let me assure you:  I have seen long checkout lines at their very
worst. :)  

I don't know about Kmart.  I have never been impressed by any Kmarts I have
gone in, and I fail to see why anybody would select them over, say, Target.
The one on Maple, for instance, is dirty, badly organized, and unnattractive.

Walmart's supercenters run roughly in the same niche as Meijer does, and we
consider them to be our primary competition.  What a life that is.  Walmart
has a bit too much money for us to beat them.  I believe our real competition
is to actually survive as a private company without a nationwide presence
within our local markets.  To their credit, corporate is taking serious steps
to compete.  I don't think that the employees really care much about that,
though.  Most of my coworkers tend to be concerned with more immediate issues,
like getting their breaks on time and how understaffed we are.