Boxers, Tighty Whities and the Economy

[tekla]

God, I can't make this stuff up.

"If you look at sales of male underpants it's just pretty much a flat line, it hardly ever changes," Krulwich recounted after the publishing of Greenspan's book, "The Age Of Turbulence." "But on those few occasions where it dips that means that men are so pinched that they are deciding not to replace underpants. And [Greenspan] said 'that is almost always a prescient, forward impression that here comes trouble.'"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/08/mens-underwear-sales-gree_n_184863.html

No word on panties yet.

[Constance]

I really don't know what to say. The economy is not in the toilet, it's in my pants?

[tekla]

Well yes, to a degree.  In any consumer based economy the power belongs to those who choose what they buy and when.  And, as the article was trying to point out, its the little things that often signal huge trends. 

[myles]

I just bought a bunch of new boxers, but I only bought those on sale!  I wonder if the people who used to pay full price are now buying sale stuff and the people who used to buy sale stuff aren't buying. Like a step down on the underwear ladder. Are the lower end underwear providers then being hit as hard as the upper end ones? Or do the people who spend $100 or more on a pair of underwear still have money so it's the producers in the middle being the most affected. I'll have to go re-read it and see if it says anything about that.
I have to agree that when you can't even buy underwear you know things are in the toilet.
Myles

[Constance]

Well yes, to a degree.  In any consumer based economy the power belongs to those who choose what they buy and when.  And, as the article was trying to point out, its the little things that often signal huge trends.

Yeah, I figured that was the case. I just couldn't resist posting the economy is in my pants.

[tekla]

Well sex sells Shades, so get out there and work it.

[Buffy]

Well sex sells Shades, so get out there and work it.

Absolutely... scantilly clad, beautiful ladies can even make Skoda's or Trabant's look sexy and saleable

Buffy

[imaz]

Absolutely... scantilly clad, beautiful ladies can even make Skoda's or Trabant's look sexy and saleable

Buffy

My Skoda is sexy ;-)

[Constance]

Well sex sells Shades, so get out there and work it.

Trust me, you don't want to see that. You think the economy's in bad shape now...