It was this.
Talk about target-marketing.
So many of these adorable things are soooo Tumblr.
And soooo pricey.
Ice cream sandwich pillows!
Op art dresses!
More playful baubles to distract us momentarily from death!
What lured me in are these computer "Toasties." These are plush gloves shaped like sandwiches you wear while you're typing away in a cold room.
Now that's just insane. Cute to put in a movie but who would do that?
But I salute the impracticality of the things lol.
OMG look at this adorable "purr-fect tipi."
My one cat would rip that thing to shreds in a half hour.
The other would look at it disdainfully as though it were a Damien Hirst gimmick.
My new addiction is looking up a site's Alexa rank.
Not surprisingly:
Site Information for modcloth.com
Alexa Traffic Rank: 3,968 United States Flag
Traffic Rank in US: 1,029
Sites Linking In: 8,633
The sites linking in is just stupendous.
I bet people get addicted to shopping there real fast.
It's about as cute as IKEA.
Some of the clothes are attractive. Well, I was just seeing the women's stuff so far.
A lot of the clothes seem designed after the Tumblr aesthetic (minimalism, outline cartoons, sixties color palette, much vintage).
The "Be the Buyer" promotion is pretty darn clever. What a great way to trick people into participating in market research lol!
I take it back about expensive. This is just what things cost now. Since I don't buy things, I don't reckon that fact.
I think it was the sixty-five dollar shark decoration that made me think "expensive!"
But I didn't read the dimensions. Maybe that's a near life-size wall decoration.
It's great design like this "Armed with Technology Tea Infuser" that really get me.
Awesomely photographed too.
Or this teal dachshund!
The catalogue refers to this as a "tschotske." Is that a legitimate spelling? I mean I see Yiddish words each spelled five or six different ways all the time but that one looks dead wrong.
It says "Man-made materials." It doesn't tell you if this is ceramic or....plastic! That makes a big difference and you can't tell from the photo with that gleam.
Also, the way this dachshund is titled in the catalogue one might easily be led to believe this is a children's bank. "Bank" is in the title. But I don't think it is. Sometimes I think I see a slot in the pup's forehead there, but with the glare it's hard to tell. That might just be "bone structure." The photos are often sumptuous but some of the catalogue copy is scarily misleading or deficient like this. I bet they get a hella lot of returns.
They hide the "details" behind some of the items and hope you won't check things like dimensions. I did check that shark, for example, and it's not big at all. You get no sense of scale, and some of these items are tiny but make you believe (me anyway!) you can tell scale from the photo. I guess my guesses as to scale are based on "standard" size for this or that decorative item from past experience. But I'm often fooled when I click on the dimensions tab. Caveat Emptor!
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