Guy: Why do you shop?
Gal: When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it’s not, and I need to do it again…
Sounds like the samsaric rebirths a shopaholic is stuck in? The movie ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ tells of how a girl desperately yearned to buy a green scarf for an interview. She felt that the scarf would complete her presentation, that it would change her whole life. But when she finally got to use it for the interview, conditions are such that it wasn’t appropriate to use. Eventually, she got the job anyway. Now, how often have we assumed that a material item would turn our life around, that the possession of which would be the tipping point towards more good stuff in life? (In my case sometimes, it would be books… every one of which seems to hold the magic key to bettering my life by quantum leaps and bounds. This is still spiritual shopping, as long as we don’t embrace a Dharma method to seriously work with.) Some things really do matter, but most don’t really. If you don’t think this is true, you can make a list of ‘green scarves’ and see how them become insignificant later. We are defined by what we think, say and do, not what we gather.
Drowning in credit card debt, the girl decides to renounce her shopaholic ways and clear her bills at the same time – by auctioning off her branded stuff. Here’s the irony – the sale was warmly welcomed by other shopaholics, and the green scarf becomes the key prize contested for. ‘Everyone’ wanted to be the next girl in the green scarf. She had gained fame as ‘the girl in the green scarf’ after writing about her experience of disillusion with unmindful shopping. Looks like the shoppers missed the point. And guess what? In real life, many shoppers missed the point too. They got enamoured with the scarf featured in the film, leading to a shopping frenzy. Because the scarf played a central role in the film, the other branded stuff kind of became calefare stars (extras). No, you shopaholics out there, I won’t be posting a picture of the scarf!
Question: Why do you shop?
Answer: To get what I need. Period.
They’re trying to make us ‘green with envy’? I personally prefer the emerald green dress in ‘Atonement’. Hahah oops :tongue: But no, I didn’t go on a shopping spree after watching the movie.
:sick: <— Poisoned by excessive materialism
But….
if you chance upon it,
would u get it?
😛
Sedna, why not just point Keira to the site where she can get the dress (replica) 😉
:dream: temptation beckoning
Err no I won’t get it, liking something doesn’t mean I have to own it 😉
By the way, that dress is made of silk. Conventional silk is made by boiling intact cocoons, which kills the silk worms within, so as to be able to unwind a single long unbroken silk strand onto reels!
:prud: < fretful silkworm baby
That the famous dress was later auctioned for charity for addicted, abused, neglected and physically-challenged children was an atonement of sorts?
(G)
Yup…. provided that the publicised charitable act doesn’t further popularise the dress, starting a craze over it, which spurs the making of more silky imitations!
:-$ < feverish!
I think most of the replicas are made of cheaper fabrics. The common rationale would be why pay the same or more for something that’s only an imitation?
The Incredible Hulk fans wouldn’t have this problem to mull over! :))
Hmm, silk comes in different grades, imitation dresses need not use expensive silk. Just like many imitations ‘L-brand’ bags don’t use high-grade leather… :oups: Well, charity done is always better than no charity done. 🙂
Hey, i wonder if they make Hulk’s super-stretchy purple ripped pants? It should be quite economical, since one size should fit all! haha!
don’t tell me you’re thinking of getting the imitation Hulk pants? :w00t:
Thankfully, I’m a Silver Surfer fan…
there’s nothing to get!
:))