The description under the picture started with: Fall is typically is all about rich, jewel and earthy colors, but this year, there’s a mini-trend of muted neutral colors are having a moment. The colors that the newspaper editor is writing about are mainly toned-down colors, such as gray, blush, cocoa, and camel.
The article contained more pictures me to click on. Each picture set contained an image or two of an article of clothing, and the description underneath explains the piece with possible other colors it comes in, words such as "simple" and "elegant," and shows the brand of the clothes and also the price in which it is being sold for. The post has 16 pictures, yet four regular ads are included into the piece. There was an ad for Starbucks and for a car dealership.
This goes to show you that, even while advertising different things, companies are trying to place more and more ads into things, so that the possible consumer has more than one piece to look at.
I actually liked this piece, as I am in desperate need for nice, warm, fall clothes. With that being said, I would probably not go out into stores and look for these exact pieces, as they are much too expensive for a broke college freshman, like myself, to be able to afford. I will probably look for clothes that match, but are a lot less expensive.
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/life/style/2014/10/02/fall-colors-tone-it-down/16594721/
Excellent post, Vicki. It's interesting what you say about not buying this exact thing, but something like it. It reminds me of a post on the website Sociological Images that I saw recently, referring to the movie Devil Wears Prada. I'll post that SI piece in a minute--but basically what it's saying is that these muted colors will be all you see, for a while--so even if you buy the off-brand, it's still a creation of the giant fashion industry, deciding what you will want to wear and what is available to you. It's a closed circle, essentially.
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