Discretionary Dollars

An article in the Wall Street Journal recently stated that Americans are not spending their discretionary dollars in the fashion and apparel industry. I went straight to my dictionary. Discretionary dollars? Who do they think they're kidding? I haven't had a discretionary dollar since the year 2000.

Thumbing my way through a dictionary is almost as confusing as Bushenomics. You know, those economics that hide in the bushes and jump out at various times to distress farmers and them's others in agri-related businesses. Bushenomics is really hitting the Red States hard. That's loyalty for you.

Winding our way through discretionary definitions, we came by discretion, then discreet, and thus to prudent. Ah Ha! Now we're getting somewhere -- Prudent!

Prudent spending in the fashion industry? Why didn't they just say so!

Guess because New York's fashion week opened yesterday and they didn't want to put a damper on all those folks buying Dior, LaCroix, Gaultier and Chanel.

By the way, the fashion designers are touting blues and browns as this Fall's choice colors. You spoze these designers color code occupations? Um.... Let's see now: farmer, soil, brown. You've gotta give 'em credit for knowing in advance that by Fall our Agriculture Cultivators will be singing the blues . . . . Wonder if someone at the Department of Health and Human Services paid them a gratuity? Now that's discretionary dollars!
Discretionary Dollars © 2005 Chaeli Sullivan