ROSEMARY MAC CABE

There are some shops I rarely go into. It’s not that I avoid them, per se, but that I have certain preconceived notions about their prices, styles, or clientele. Jane Norman is one main culprit; to that list I could add Coast, Karen Millen, Next and Monsoon. If I were thinking very carefully, I could, [...]

I love women’s magazines. I buy almost all of them – and I supplement my interest in women’s interest magazines (Marie Claire, Elle, Glamour) with purely fashion and art magazines (Vogue, Pop, Love, iD. . .). This month, I’ve had my ups and my downs with the magazines: Glamour’s stance on porn, for example, or [...]

It might sound like a particularly shallow thing to say – and in a way vulgar, because there’s so much talk of cutbacks and paycuts and cut cut cut . . . – but sometimes there’s nothing like a bit of retail therapy, interspersed with “ban on talking about xxxx”, to make you feel a [...]

So today I went to “most popular” in Google Reader and this post came up, showcasing some of the funniest print ads in existence. Here are two of my favourites – and it just goes to show, print advertising can be just as effective (if not more so, and less irritating) than radio or television.