No Supply

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I decided to get some new loafers this weekend, these cool big chunky Gucci ones I’ve been wanting. And I decided to try and get them in person, so I could have an excuse to go to the mall (ran out of things to do to amuse the kids). Sooo off I went to the mall, excited to have something to actually do, besides eat McDonald’s and buy green juice, and the store didn’t HAVE them! They were out! They said it would at least be a few weeks, and then I thought okay, if I’m going to spend this much on shoes, I might as well see what other items are available, and so looked around, and everything was out too. And so then I went home that evening, and went online, and everything was sold out TOO. At full price! The various items I tried to purchase:

Hermes loafers. Well I did get to try these on, but I didn’t realize that the tops are lined in canvas (?) and I definitely needed my exact size. Which were not available. And neither was the color I wanted. As it usually goes with Hermes.

Gucci loafers. As covered above. Well they are on the Gucci site. But also with a few weeks wait.

Prada mules. Available at an insane (in my opinion, for Prada) price of $900. Surely they’d be available, right? But no, sold out in black on all department store sites, in ALL sizes, until something like February 2022! Incredible! And then I tried the loafer version, and of course those are all out as well! Until March 2022!

And then, giving up on shoes, I decided f*** it, I’ve had a really stressful few weeks, I’m going to get my dream Row blazer…only to realize that it was out as well. And then I decided to try my second choice Row blazer…and that was all out too! At least in my size (I’m usually a 0 for The Row, especially for their oversized styles), and honestly, if I’m paying full price for The Row, I want my exact size, right?

And then, I realized I was in a sort of crazy, insane, toxic spiral. The sort where you decide you are going to get something, and then that something becomes anything, you’ve just got to buy, and I stopped myself. Because it was insane. And it’s also crazy because I’ve got a closet full of stuff, and I don’t need anything, but that’s just consumerism, and it isn’t as if I’m anti consumerism (if so I’m doing a very bad job), and there is something going on with supply these days, which I’m sure is the result of all sorts of larger macro factors. So anyway a bunch of thoughts got jumbled in there but the end conclusion is: I don’t need anything right now.

So….thanks for reading along, as I worked this out. Have you all been encountering this low supply issue?