Running away

“Hey”
“Hey”
“Can I ask you a question? It’s kind of personal. You don’t have to answer if you don’t wish to.”
“Shoot.”
“Exactly how many pairs of footwear do you own?”
“Not enough.”
“Come on. Quantify.”
“17”
“Err…”
“Yes? You need any other information about my choice of footwear?”
“Umm…no. I was just wondering. I have totally four pairs of footwear and I never seem to face any problem. It’s just that I don’t get it. Why do women have fascination for footwear?”
“Shouldn’t you be surprised why most men generally lack that fascination?”
“Why should I be? Worrying about apparel, footwear, accessories seems so girlish.”
“Then why the heck do we have so many male fashion models?”
“Simple. Girls like to ogle at them. Since it’s an already established fact that men simply don’t do fashion, women persuade husbands/friends/siblings/boy-friends to buy the merchandise. Male models are actually targeting women and not men.”
“That’s the stupidest load of bull I have ever heard. Well, it’s an ok theory though, but not quite logical. Have you heard of demand and supply chain?”
“Yes. It is the basic rule of supply chain management. A vendor supplies goods to meet the demand.”
“What if there is no demand?”
“Then create demand.”
“Exactly. Demands are created by advertising, discounts on excess goods, creating a fashion trend etc.”
“I understand that. But what’s your point?”
“What if there was a point of time when both men and women were completely ignorant to fashion trends. For example, people wore cloths and footwear to satisfy their basic purpose and never really for anything else.”
“Must be a time of simple living and high thinking? Or was it a time of no thinking and generally living?”
“Do you want to listen to my theory or not?”
“All right. Sorry. Go ahead.”
“Well that time, lets consider a merchant who ended up with excess amount of silk and excess leather for that season. Like every other merchant he could store them at the cost of quality till next season or sell them off intelligently.”
“So he created a demand.”
“He would have arranged a gala at his manor and would invite all of the townsfolk. In the gala he would explain the fine features of his silk and leather.”
“So those dumb idiots bought his words and purchased the silk?”
“Of course not. His idea would have been a total flop. Look at these people. They are already satisfied with what they have. If you are offering the same thing then why would they buy? That too buy something that they already have?”
“So he introduced fashion!”
“Exactly. He would invite people and show them the merchandise in a finished manner with different styles.”
“All right. I am with you till now. But you still haven’t explained why men aren’t into fashion.”
“I am getting there. When the merchant showed the finished goods it was actually for both men and women. Only women bought goods.”
“So you mean to say men are retarded when it comes to fashion sense?”
“No. They had visited the last time that merchant had a gala. These men thought that he is again going to show same old silk and leather so they simply enjoyed the party by drinking and frolicking. They were too drunk to realize that merchandise was shown for them too. Those who were not drunk were either children who particularly could not take apparel decisions on their own or people with no money who could not afford them. People who were rich to afford those things were in a drunken haze. Merchant would have thought that men didn’t like fashions. This must have continued for some years after which fashion was used only with feminine gender for quite sometime.”
“Basically men are not into fashion is because they are generally drunkards, lazy and ignorant?”
“Well, they were mostly indifferent to anything in those days I suppose. Perhaps that would explain the ridiculous cloths that Europeans wore during Renaissance.”
“Men are not ignorant.”
“OK. Do you watch TV? Of course you do. What’s the average time you spend on TV?”
“About 2-3 hours a day and 5-6 hours during weekend. Why?”
“Why don’t you use Fair & Lovely?”
“What? Why should I use a product manufactured for women?”
“QED.”
“What? What did I miss?”
“You claim you watch TV and have missed out ads for men’s product by the same brand. You read magazines and I am sure in many of them you will find a whole page dedicated to this product. How did you miss?”
“I would have passed it as yet another skin care product for women.”
“Right. You didn’t even bother to see if it’s anywhere applicable to you. That’s where the difference lies between men and women.”
“What? That women pay attention and men don’t?”
“Yes. When a woman really pays attention, then end result would also involve man being really attentive and wonder why his money purse has become suddenly lighter.”
“Where did you read this stuff? It’s pretty interesting.”
“I made it all up just now.”
“You made it up? @#%^*$%@^!<%” “I was bored with my work until you came along with that really lame question of yours so I thought I can entertain myself with some useless theory.” “So the reason for your seventeen pairs of footwear….” “Shopping is in our other X Chromosome. Period.” "Aaarrrghhhh....."

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