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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The market hasn't spoken, sweetie, influencers have spoken.[/quote]

Save the "sweetie" for your granddaughter.

The market has spoken.  There's a difference between aspirational looks and actual sales.

Aspirational looks make it to Pinterest. When people actually buy, then manufacturers make more and more of the trendy product, and drive the trend in retail stores.

Sad beige isn't coming only from Mormon influencers.  For example, I consider gray nurseries part of this trend and Pottery Barn Kids was all over that.  PBK is a major trendsetter in suburban nurseries, and that kind of company has their own market-scanning designers.

Expensive uncolored wooden European and American toys are classics, and have been popular with wealthy IYKYK types since the 1960s.  I've been to the Maple Landmark wooden toy factory in Middlebury, Vermont.  Have you?  That kind of stuff is pushed in the few high end toy stores that still exist, right along with the Steiff teddy bears.

Here's a teacher with a fun article.  She mentions the growth in popularity of beige as going back to the 1960s.  And an interior design trend starting before the kid product trend.  When your whole space is decked out in minimalist neutrals, it looks even worse to dump a whole bunch of primary-colored plastic into the space. Nobody with eyes needs to follow influencers to notice that.

https://piccalio.com/blogs/grow/the-science-behind-the-sad-beige-moms-debate#:~:text=The%20Origin%20of%20%22Sad%20Beige%20Moms%22,-The%20origin%20of&text=Many%20people%20call%20them%20out,at%20the%20beige%20mom%20aesthetic.[/quote]

Nailed it. Also this post reminds me of the cerulean blue speech from The Devil Wears Prada, well done! 😆[/quote]

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