Mail Order

Today RantWoman's mail brought the usual collection of publications whose circulation departments cannot put their brains around the idea that RantWoman really could not care less whether she has more print piling up in her home. In fact, depending on the obnoxiousness of the print and RantWoman's need to amuse herself looking at fuzzy clothing-shaped blobs while aboard one of Metro's rolling anthropology laboratories, RantWoman could head toward seriously annoyed.

Mail order catalogs, especially mail order clothing catalogs oriented toward people of RantWoman's dimensions, are one category of publication that exist perpetually in the fuzzy DMZ between indifference and total annoyance, with only occasional exceptions for the most diverting editions.

On the verging on annoyance front, RantWoman gets multiple catalogs every week from one outfit. This outfit runs toward the budget end of the price range, which means that both RantMom and Little Sister also have multitudinous emanations from this place piling up too just in case RantWoman is suddenly seized with an urge to browse. At this point RantWoman knows that the best deals from that outfit will have to be filtered heavily from the online edition and at her house the print catalogs, which lately have been shrinking dramatically anyway, go straight into the trash.

Today on the other hand RantWoman got her catalog from Junonia , one of RantWoman's very favorite apparel purveyors. Warning, upfront, the prices, while probably reasonable for the value offered are not discount store prices.

Junonia offerings run heavily to sports gear, swimsuits, workout clothes, golf shorts, polo shirts, with a selection of items with similar cuts but done in basic black or beige with a few details subtly different in the direction of "professional." Junonia outerwear ROCKS, including coats with sleeves long enough for RantWoman AND one or two items / year with reflector features for customers who insists on an active pedestrian life during all seasons. If available, RantWoman would do her level best to buy RantWoman-sized reflectorized pants clips or zipper pulls for those situations where one might not want one's garments to permanently flash reflector features, but RantWoman has purchased several garments and been well-pleased by all.

Functional, fashionable well-made clothing is more than reason enough to shop Junonia, but there is an even more important reason: unlike the twigs modelling for the many times a week outfit, Junonia catalogs feature women who actually look like they would wear the products! The models certainly look like they spend more time at the gym than RantWoman does, but they look like the kind of people the product is made for.

Call it lack of imagination, but RantWoman finds these images so much more credible when thinking about how she and the garments might interact than when she has to guess from the dimensions given on the website and a picture of some twig who probably subsists on a diet of Evian and celery. both of which incidentally RantWoman likes but not as sole elements of an eating plan. Meanwhile, give Junonia a whirl!