Apparently, barren can mean an inability to conceive or carry a child as well as high end fashion that retails for $245.
Taken from the Saks Fifth Avenue Website:
Diane von Furstenberg’s Barren Full Skirt
An elegant, Italian design with elastic waist puffs out with a full, flirty flounce.
Melissa, otherwise known as Mel, The Stirrup Queen, and most recently nicknamed Lollipop Goldstein, has been blogging since 2006. In addition to STIRRUP QUEENS, she also writes the daily Lost and Found (LFCA). She also writes for BlogHer. You can join her on StumbleUpon. She's known to Twitter about her wonky ovaries.
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Wow – that’s all I can say. What a stupid name of a product if you want to enhance your brand. It’s like calling a wedding dress: divorce or seperation! Maybe not the same…but you get my drift! Wow!
Well, I was at least hoping for something ugly…
I don’t know what they’re smoking in the marketing department, but they got a hold of some bad shit.
Sweet. Now fashion is mocking me along with my crappy eggs.
Thumbs down!
Well, glad to hear I’m ahead of the trends for once.
DVF can suck a toe.
Off to get me a new skirt! And maybe a shirt called “leukemia” to wear with it.
Wow. Just wow.
Well, that’s just ridiculous.
Weird. Do you think they ran out of words? I saw one of the other dresses was named “slippery.”
Well, I have to say… I like their barren better than mine. But that still deserves a “What the ?!?!”
Ignorance in this case is not bliss. What kind of marketing dolt came up with that one?
If I had known that…I would have waited 10 years to have my hysterectomy so I could suffer in silence while wearing my garb of barren-ness.
Even if it weren’t weird to name a skirt barren, it is certainly bizarre to name a full skirt as such.
?!?!!
Reminds me of Googling “childless” & “childfree,” & coming up with mommy blog posts (!) along the lines of “Hurray, I’m childless this weekend!” (i.e., they got someone to take the kids for a few days) I wonder how happy they’d be if they found themselves REALLY childless?? Like many of us??
Well – it’s certainly not a skirt for a pregnant lady to wear. It’s very waist-ed.
I quite like it. Sometimes I do want everyone to know how entirely not up the duff I am, and a little bit of jealousy directed at a non-baby waist seems well deserved considering all the jealousy I fight in myself while looking at baby waists.
After all, the by line to PJ’s blog was Barren and Beautiful.
We need a cool name to identify ourselves. You know, gay people get “queer” and we get……… ????? Ah – we get Stirrup Queens. Of course Mel, you are already ahead of us and it does have a bit more of a ring then “Barren”