Category: retail

  • Diversifying dance, one accessory at a time

    Hi, everyone! A few years ago I wrote a piece on intimate apparel companies that have begun selling wider ranges of “skin tone” items. The one that offered the widest range of colors was Nude Barre.     Many dance troupes require “flesh colored” tights, bras, and dance trunks as part of performance uniforms. Nude…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, everyone! We’ve had some technical difficulties this past week, so we’re a bit behind. Let’s get caught up, shall we?   This week’s Mag of the Week is The Hat Magazine, a trade journal aimed at the millinery industry. It is published 4x/year in London, U.K. The British are still very enthusiastic about hats,…

  • What are you selling?

    Last week when I was working on how to research America in the 1950s, I came across a ton of wonderful ads in the magazines I photographed. I thought they were too cool not to share some of this great ad imagery with you this week. Last week I was flipping through Fortune magazine and…