Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for March 23, 2010

Hmm, I match too much: all my clothes either earth-tones or go with black. All I have to do to get dressed is grab two things from the same area of the closet (black on the right, brown on the left) - I could get dressed in my sleep.

Poor women. My Levis go with everything from a sports coat to a Grateful Dead tee shirt.

You aren’t the only one who does the “jeans go with everything” fashion, Lewreader; the smarter women do this and don’t fall for the fashion trends. I should know..I’m one of them.

Jeans and cords and a drawer of tees with or without a sweater (depends on weather…) and I’m good to go most places! Oh and crocs or berkis for shoes!

All of the combinations in the comic make me wince, and I’m so far away from a fashion plate. If I ever saw one of those outfits on the street, I would make fun of them. On gocomics, of course.

“berkis”? what’s those? crocs I know.

Susan001 said, about 1 hour ago

“Lace with sweats”? Yuck!

The only ones who follow “fashion trends” are dopey teenage girls. Cathy is a mature woman who knows better. Yet, that maniac saleswoman constantly tries to force “today’s trends” down her throat. She must make one hell of a commission!

Or else she’s desperate to make one.

I’ve been reading these “Cathy At The Mall” storylines for ages and you have to wonder: These salesladies she always does business with must be billionares by now!

I like a little whimsical mix-and-matching, but this…this is too much. (But, then, so are those bubble shorts I see as “the latest thing.”)

I live in a city that’s too small (or is it too large?) to have a mall. We have streets and we have stores. And here in NYC, desk-job people wear black, or they wear dark suits with shirts and ties that don’t clash. “Real”-job people wear jeans and hoodies or Tshirts. Either way, it’s easy as pie.

“OverheardInNewYork.com” once caught somebody saying something telling (and, for a change, not lewd) - Twenty-something A, in Macys: “Girl, are you out of your mind? Are you really going to try that on?” Twenty-something B, sheepishly: “Well, maybe just for a moment - I just wanted to see what I look like in a color.”

Who has to try something on? We all know that you will look exactly like a tourist (i.e. anyone from more than 10 miles out of town).

This means that nobody has to buy anything new at all, beacuse everything is back in and nothing has to match. We’ve already got that!

I hope we don’t all want to poke our eyes out by fall, like we wanted to with what we’ve seen some people do when there ARE seasonal fashion rules.

Josh, no, in fact after she sells the ugly clothes for 8 hours, she works at the makeup counter for 8 hours, and then as a waitress the rest of the day. When the saleslady has free time, she sells shoes, and if you notice, she still can’t even seem to afford the bad fashions she tries to sell Cathy. Look at what she has on. This is the way we’ll all be under communism soon.