This entry’s title should be: So what’s the deal with
label-stealing, just what’s a label whore, and why NYCers are ill-equipped to take over the world, regardless of what they think. But that’s almost as long as this entry.
Lots of resale shops have been complaining recently about consumers actually stealing, not the merchandise, but the LABELS out of the clothes. Here’s an entertaining take on just what folks are DOING with the labels: messing with the “heads” of resale shopkeepers! Another excellent reason for “knowing quality” and NOT relying on labels, as we discussed recently on Sharing.
Apparently label-whoring was a problem in our great- or great-great-grandmother’s times as well. This is from Ladies’ Home Journal…in 1913:“The American woman’s slavish and insistent demand for things Parisian has brought about a swindle that today permeates almost the entire dressmaking and millinery business in the United States.“If, for example, a woman has a so-called imported gown with a Worth label sewn in it the odds are overwhelming that it is fraudulent; or a Paquin or a Drecoll or a Doucet label, or any other French label.”
Now, here’s something REALLY interesting: Another entry on the Jezebel blog trying the same trick in Tampa, stating “We’d desperately hoped that Floridians would disprove the snobbishness that ran rampant among the East Village shopkeepers” that is just SO blatantly snobbish on its own! You will note, that the Tampa store was MUCH closer on the mark to the REAL value of the whore-garments, won’t you?
For the record: I was born and bred in New York, so don’t give me any of that you-know-what (I did soak up a lot of Midwest culture in my residence there, and proud of it.)
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 