Odd looking landfill, but this is Lost Forest, so Reality must bend to the need, I reckon. At least the landfill’s got the birds. Now, I don’t wanna be a naysayer, but how do they know those jean leggings (“jeggings”) are Holly’s? Do they have her label on them?
I didn’t know anything about Jeggings! I learned they are very tight-fitting leggings made to look like jeans, but can cost 2x to 3x more than an actual pair of jeans, assuming your taste for jeans runs to what you can find at places like Target and Costco. Jeggings for men seem to cost more than the same product for women, but I didn’t do a deep enough dive to make an authoritative claim. Unfortunately, I no longer have a 20-something body that encourages the wearing of jeggings!
All you dedicated readers will have to enlighten me on how some random discarded clothing presents evidence of malice or corruption on the part of Holly Folly. And finally, one more thing: I may be just a slow kid from Virginia, but why didn’t Olive just bring Peach along for this fact-finding trip? Wouldn’t that be more efficient? Maybe there is there a subplot to this story that requires Peach to remain at home.
Art Dept. Does Cherry wear jeggings? Her pants always look like they were drawn on her!
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All you dedicated readers will have to enlighten me on how some random discarded clothing presents evidence of malice or corruption on the part of Holly Folly.
My assumption is that Olive expects to find some discarded “fast fashion” stuff obviously based on the “sustainable” garments Peach sold Holly Folly when this story started, thus proving that Holly has no concern for the planet and is perverting Peach’s dream. Which should kill the impending deal.
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Well, if Holly was able to get it designed, produced, in a store, worn, and discarded that quickly, I think she should get an award of some kind. Of course, we don’t really know how much time is passing between from one strip to the other in some cases. OTOH, Rivera should be solidly snarked for suggesting such an expedited timeline!
In any event, I think it will likely be something along that line.
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The other thing to keep in mind is just how fast the “fast fashion” mills turn. I was watching a PBS show called “Human Footprint” a while back, and they covered the fast fashion business. It seems that it’s literally a matter of a few weeks between a new fashion from some European designer popping up at a show in Paris or New York and clones of that fashion being on the racks of big box stores. And, unfortunately, only a few weeks after that, in landfills after their first and only wearing.
Given that Rivera cut away to the feral hog story, I’m willing to not give her too much snark if she compresses the fast fashion timeline a little. I remember how TV shows like “CSI” would turn a full DNA sequence around in a matter of a couple minutes when it was needed to move the plot around; never mind that the fastest process takes hours and the samples can spend days, weeks, or even years in the queue.
I just blame it all on relativity. Comics distort the space-time continuum.
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Well said! And good info on the fast fashion industry. I’ll have to look up that PBS special.
I agree that mass media productions (tv, movies, even comics) alter time and space to make stories work. CSI and NCIS are famous for their amazingly fast lab results. As you say, Relativity at work. Or maybe the machinations of the Chrono-Synclastic Infandibulum.
Then, the show “24” turned this concept on its head, presenting what was supposed to be an entire adventure in “real time”, resolved in one whole day stretched out to 24 episodes.
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