What It Seams To Me: A Fashion Blog

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When the book made its successful debut back in 2001, it was as obvious as the pink elephant spotted in a vacant room that a follow-up movie is bound to revive the mania surrounding “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” as well as three other books that accompany this tetralogy, all written by British author Sophia Kinsella.

It’s a crime often practiced but seldom spoken out loud: around the ripe era of a woman’s life, say 18-30, materialism, glamour and the sudden want for both seems to spawn out of nowhere. The majority of the female American population searches to find a detour down their road of the unsatisfying middle-class income – which, in reality, is as far from being disposable as some wish for it to be; and although this road is paved with erosion-prone bricks from the Mom and Pop’s store down the street, the slick lamination of a piece of paper with a number code embroidered on the front and a magic black bar slapped on the back can magically turn this abhorrence into a road made of the world’s finest marbles.

As easy as it is to obtain a credit card, it’s surprisingly much easier to forget reality and swipe to one’s content. After all, it’s an unwritten law to shop but don’t say a whisper as to where all this mysterious money is coming from.

This beautiful road is actually a walk-in closet, supplied by the world’s most well known retail stores. With a hefty credit generously given from a London bank, Rebecca Bloomwood (played by Isla Fisher) has no reason to abstain. Her months of joyful opulence echoes a situation that hits too close to home for many women and in my case, I have many reasons to sympathize with her.

However, let me bring my ramblings back to what I’m really trying to say: what a terrible time to release a movie like this! It’s already depressing to see homeowners oh so desperately trying to sell their home to an almost non-existing market and residence of the country frantically matching up the pace it takes to pick up their pennies to how fast these pennies fall out of the widened hole in his or her’s pockets. So much for catering to a recession-stricken country.

Although Rebecca quickly realizes she has a problem and gets a job to resolve all this, the amount of product placements, name droppings, and to-good-to-let-it-pass deals will just shoot eager spenders out of the movie theaters and to a nearby department store. Lastly, lets hope some viewers aren’t the type to re-create the movie world into reality, thinking that applying for a credit card and quickly getting a job afterwards to alleviate the debt will go by as quick as a 2 hour movie.

Truthfully, I’m very excited for this movie to premiere because a) I can never get enough of movies that shimmers fashion and b) the movie trailer made me scream in my seat. It has been six years since I picked up this book and religiously read through within a span of a few days. I predict a revisit in this series, as well as finally reading the last two books I have yet to read.

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