Hm, well your view of small-girlhood is certainly more up to date than mine.
I will, however, now admit that when I was about 6 (probably not 8) I would have loved pink frilly things, but I would never have had the nerve to admit it at the time, because that would have been seriously uncool.
I'm not sure the magazine market indicates anything other than very short-term trends.
The other day I sadly observed that where 10 years ago there would have been a choice of about 7 or 8 gardening magazines, all with interesting seeds or bulbs or something on the cover, there are now just a couple if you are lucky, and they are full of sad articles about the loss of allotments, the trend to ever smaller gardens, and fighting back against the trend for paving everything. I really, really hope that this is something we will see swing back the other way in the next 10 years or so.
There are far fewer Internet mags than there were, but that definitely doesn't indicate a decrease in interest: it's just that most of the stuff has gone online.
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Date: 2006-12-15 12:12 pm (UTC)I will, however, now admit that when I was about 6 (probably not 8) I would have loved pink frilly things, but I would never have had the nerve to admit it at the time, because that would have been seriously uncool.
I'm not sure the magazine market indicates anything other than very short-term trends.
The other day I sadly observed that where 10 years ago there would have been a choice of about 7 or 8 gardening magazines, all with interesting seeds or bulbs or something on the cover, there are now just a couple if you are lucky, and they are full of sad articles about the loss of allotments, the trend to ever smaller gardens, and fighting back against the trend for paving everything. I really, really hope that this is something we will see swing back the other way in the next 10 years or so.
There are far fewer Internet mags than there were, but that definitely doesn't indicate a decrease in interest: it's just that most of the stuff has gone online.