11 year old Ella Gunderson of Bellevue, Washington, made headlines recently as a result of a letter she wrote to the upscale retailer, Nordstrom.
And what was in the letter, you ask? It was a direct, albeit ungrammatical, request for clothing that wouldn’t make Ella and her friends looks like Vegas hookers.
The execs at Nordstrom did write back. In the meantime, their spokeswoman told CNN that “the company has been hearing for about two years from customers who want more modest looks.”
That’s TWO YEARS, folks. TWO YEARS for a supposedly classy outfit like Nordstrom to get the point. What on EARTH have they been waiting for?
I don’t know who dictates what the big retailers’ buying habits are supposed to be, but evidently it’s not their customers. I have my suspicions. For instance: Tina Wells, the chief executive of New Jersey-based Buzz Marketing, sniffed disapprovingly to CNN, “The next big trend I see is kids are going to look like monks.”
Gee, Tina, ain’t it AWFUL that little girls and their parents are taking away a chunk of your industry’s ill-gotten gains by getting off the “sex sells” bandwagon?
Meanwhile, young Ella recently appeared in a fashion show sponsored by her church youth organization, dressed in a long-sleeved top and shiny pink skirt.
She must have bought her outfit in Canada.