Saturday, October 26, 2013

Crack Den Couture for the Upper Middle Class


While on a wild pinning spree, I started to notice a repetative pattern in the images from one of my favorite stores. (If you just said, "huh?" I'm talking Pinterest. Google it.)  

Juxtaposition, odd marketing stategy, trying to make overpriced linens seem not so over-priced? Art? Call it what you will. All I took from these advertising images is the assumed truth that Anthropologie shoppers must all live in crack dens.

They moved the bed away from the wall so now
they're safe from the mold, you see.
Every little girl's fantasy bedroom: Wrought iron headboard,
pretty yellow sheets and sludgy walls.
Roof over my head, or fancy comforter... Roof over my head, or fancy comforter...?
FANCY COMFORTER!!!
Why, no! No murder was ever commited here.
Just go to sleep dear...
The best way to counteract asbestos?
A purple chair-and-a-half!
 
The honeymoon suite.
Just don't look up tonight, darling!
Scared by the nightime sounds of your house settling?
You just need an antelope pillow to cuddle up to.
With pretty bedding like this, you won't mind
ingesting lead-based paint chips in your sleep!
No time to repair plaster and refinish the hardwood floors?
A low-hanging chandelier is sure to distract the eye.
I couldn't afford a Trapper Keeper for my homework
because my duvet cost too much.
The most restful place to position the bed is
directly beneath where the bathtub is likely to fall through.
So, next time you begin to judge the lady with the fancy shopping bag, vintage-looking sailor pants and the perfectly heathered embroidered sweater... Don't jealously assume she's going home to your dream house.

Maybe, just maybe, some Anthropologie shoppers really do live in crack-dens.
 Some may be gypsies...
And, some simply homeless...

(They do have free coffee in their stores, you know.)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

ill take that homeless bed loved it.