Window Dressing Hell!
23 May 2011Amanda
I love wandering around London and gazing into the immaculately dressed windows of the shops on Oxford Street and Regent Street. I find myself trying to guess how much of a display budget they had to create such amazing displays!
The thing is you can create equally exciting displays on the cheap, it just takes a little more thought and a thrifty attitude! Scouring auctions and charity shops for display props is sadly becoming one of my favourite past times!
A whole window display can be built around the most random find from a second-hand shop like this old radio which sets the retro prints of Cath Kidston off a treat!
So I have to wonder why some shops totally neglect the ‘Silent sales person’. After all the Queen of shops herself Mary Portas started her career as a lowly window dresser and look at her now, advising the government on the plight of the retailer!
The way I look at it is this, if you can’t come up with anything better than a few manky camisoles attached to a piece of plywood, you shouldn’t be let loose with a staple gun, or at the very least be stapled to the floor with it for crimes against window dressing!
Windows aside I turn to the art of dressing a mannequin, I mean how hard can it be? After all you dress yourself every day, if anything it should be easier as their arms and legs come off!! So what excuse does the person who dressed this ‘horror’ have?
Think my nephews face says it all... He’s the one on the right by the way!
