{"id":353,"date":"2005-09-27T09:16:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T13:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2005-09-27T09:16:47","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T13:16:47","slug":"a-fitting-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/09\/27\/a-fitting-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"a fitting finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit, I&#8217;d giggle a fair bit if<a href=\"http:\/\/wbz1030.com\/finance_\/finance_story_269163442.htm\">this rumour<\/a> turns out to be true. When Tommy Hilfiger first started out, he had an awesome product. It was a domestically-made, high quality (I still have two from 18 or so years ago), reasonably &#8211; but not cheaply &#8211; priced product line, and came in a wide variety of colours and patterns. The logo was an afterthought, and stars and stripes were not incorporated into 50% of the available patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Boy how times changed. Now, the knock-offs you find on Canal Street are better quality, everything has &#8220;TOMMY&#8221; and the tri-colour logo emblazoned on it, and I&#8217;m not sure what kind of acid the designers are hitting, but it ain&#8217;t good. Oh, and the $80-140\/shirt just ain&#8217;t worth it (to say nothing of the $30 underwear and socks).<\/p>\n<p>The product is nothing but advertising, and it&#8217;d be nice to see Wal-Mart buy the name up and put it where it really belongs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit, I&#8217;d giggle a fair bit ifthis rumour turns out to be true. When Tommy Hilfiger first started out, he had an awesome product. It was a domestically-made, high quality (I still have two from 18 or so years ago), reasonably &#8211; but not cheaply &#8211; priced product line, and came in a wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}