That Cookie magazine art director has got a real sense of humor. And a finger on the pulse of a bankrupting nation!
The November issue of the parenting magazine features a pictorial documentation of poverty's fashion and accessories, but with a price-tag that, nudge nudge, reassures you're doing juuuuust fine. You don't need to scrimp, save or beg to get by (not in a $1,395 Burberry dress and $995 matching cardigan!).
Using the 70s TV classic "The Waltons" for inspiration, the mag's 10 pages of "Country Classic" fashion are described as "crisp, classic, unadorned clothes that look like they're from another era --".
Yes. That era was called the Great Depression.
Of course, today's country folk are more likely to be wearing Wal-mart leggings. And this new depression is happening to Old Navy bedecked exurbanites. But don't be so literal. Cookie -- and apparently designers -- don't want fashionable families to miss out on all the fun of living in leaner times, saying Grace to the Lord for simple meals and taking turns telling one-another "good night."
A taste of the olden days, through the lens of Cookie: The country family wears simple dresses, wool britches, smock tops and really fancy boots. Check out the boy in Diesel overalls ($149) and girls in Mischen shirtdresses ($435). Don't even think of wearing those to the outhouse! There's also an $85 houndstooth hat from Cole Haan and a $490 D&G classic coat, against which some dunderhead country boy is holding a rooster. If I so much as see a speck of chicken shit on that thing, so help me ...
You know, just because the neighbor's home is in foreclosure and you keep reading about how Christmas is going to be tight this year, "Country Classic" makes it clear that the nation's recession/depression isn't just for the financially over-extended. Even you, who wouldn't flinch at sending your girl to school in a $223 La Garconne vest and a $340 Michael Stars mini (in the top pic), can look the part of dirty-eating, depression-era mountain people.
Poverty sure is cute.
(Oeuf Isa dress, $82 and Ivory slip, $52 -- that's a $134 ... so much as snag that slip on the stump and Pa's getting the strap!)
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