Showing posts with label clothes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clothes. Show all posts
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Arms for children but not women in Missouri

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 The Washington Post has the story: Missouri Republicans block proposed ban on kids carrying guns in public By Timothy Bella "The Repub...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Fur for fashion banned in Israel

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  Here's the story from Ynet: Israel becomes first country to ban sale of fur in fashion trade .   " Israel announced a ban Wednesd...
Saturday, December 1, 2018

Why own your own (fashionable) clothes?

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There's a rental market for fashionable women's clothes, Rent the Runway The NY Times ran a feature story on it: The Transformat...
Saturday, September 29, 2018

In Italy, a proposal to tax brides whose dresses are too skimpy

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Nico Lacetera, who has a fine eye for repugnant transactions, points me to a proposal involving repugnance from several points of view: V...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

French court suspends burkini ban: repugnant or protected (or both)?

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There was something appropriate about swim suits being banned in France for being insufficiently revealing, but it turns out French citizen...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

The online market for tailors

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One of the markets that the internet seems likely to change profoundly is the market for custom clothing. Bloomberg news had a recent  repor...
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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Dress exchange

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Joshua Gans points out to me that now there's a dress exchange  called 99dresses.comhttp://www.99dresses.com/ (which seems less complic...
Monday, October 3, 2011

If fur is repugnant (in West Hollywood, CA), why not leather?

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That's the question the NY Times asks ( Ban Fur? Then Why Not Leather? ) following the decision by the city of West Hollywood California...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Flash sales--buying in a hurry

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Time Is Money ... "But commerce will always require the creation of scarcity, bottlenecks and stampedes. The most immediate way to do...
Sunday, August 1, 2010

The market for once-used wedding dresses

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For Sale: One White Dress, Yet to Be Worn "AS more brides try to sell their used wedding dresses online, some have found a way to sta...
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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Designer dresses: avoiding coordination failure

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The Telegraph reports that " The anguish and embarrassment of arriving at an exclusive party only to find another woman wearing the sam...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

The market for old clothes

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In Haiti: The Afterlife of American Clothes Haitian entrepreneurs find value in our castoffs.