#anyway. i'm no fashionista but i don't remember this being so hard in the beforetimes? lol

[queenlua]

what’s with the weird proliferation of online “clothing stores” that are mega-optimized to advertise on {facebook/instagram/pinboard/whatever}, and have designs that indeed look VERY cute and appealing...

...but whenever you click through, it’s SO sus (weird spelling/grammar errors throughout the website, alarmingly little information about the company itself, models clearly had some of the clothing just photoshopped onto them, googling turns up complaints of shit that takes months to ship and doesn’t even remotely fit, etc)

so then it’s like ok i guess sketchy rando online companies are not the place to buy clothes, but then if you walk into any fucking department store / mall / etc post-2020 it’s just The Blandest Designs Ever in a space that’s faintly depressing

so like, uh, how do clothes happen nowadays?  surely fashion still happens somewhere???  how do???