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Dear belM - re a trend that repeats itself every generation you are so right. I just received a Nordstorm catologue that features an off-shoulder "peasant" dress. Shade of my youth! Those very dresses were popular in 1948! I know, I had one!


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Peasant dresses...Aye, and popular again in the seventies and a bit of a comeback in the 90's.


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"...compared to insider trading though."

They are both taking *exclusive advantage of "living in the future".


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What do you mean?


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"Creating a demand" means you are in a position to know before your competitors what that demand will be and are able to position yourself in front of them "in line" to sell... albeit larger 'lines', more of them, a wider consumer base and a larger beneficiary of the advantage realized... or so the CFO's will tell you. Insider trading laws seem to be smaller, specific context versions of monopoly/anti-trust laws. The EU just fined a very large software company for very similar reasons.


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>>blond and not bad looking<<

It is a statistical fact that blonds get stopped for speeding even more than red cars [sic]. ;)


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Theres a couple of points to consider in this case Musick...

When it comes to the choice of colours, the general tones are decided upon by textile manufactures. It isn't just one manufacturer that decides, for example, that bright oranges will be popular this year, it's the whole lot of them. It's not coincidence that a whole pile of different brands come out with variations on the same themes. So you don't really have one company at an advantage over an other.

Cosmetic manufacturers follow the fashion industry. All of them have access to the same information, so one manufacturer is not in a better position than another there either.

There is really no monopoly involved since they all belong to the same associations and are aware of the same information.

It's how they interpret and deal with that information that makes them successful or not.


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colours and patterns that would be popular in the upcoming years

There was an article about this [sic] group in the NY Times a number of years ago. It was composed of a number of women who met in a windowless room in the Garment District. It was fascinating, and in the end so fantastic that after wondering about it for a few months I dismissed it as fairytale. (Do you have any more information?)


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Unfortunately, I can't give you any more info that that above. Even if I was in charge of coordinating the textiles for the different provinces - a pretty important job since if you chose the wrong colours the line would flop - I was not invited to these meetings since I was but an underling in the scheme of things.

The company owner was a member of the association and told me about it after such a meeting.

(Just as an aside, I did rather well since I am an avid reader and used to read all the fashion mags to get a feel for the colours. Best year they ever had apparently. O.K., o.k., I'll stop bragging now )


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