As masks fall out of fashion, Etsy sellers ask themselves, 'now what?'

CNN Business ^ | Updated 10:07 AM EDT, Wed May 26, 2021 | Parija Kavilanz

[dforest]

Get another job honey selling framed photos of fear porn star Anthony Fauchi.

[metmom]

You made your money.

Don’t complain.

[Salman]

Lengthen the straps and sell them as sexy skimpy underwear. /smirk.

[GOP Poet]

Perfect!!

[Stravinsky]

Come up with something equally as simple and cheap to make and do it. It wasn’t going to last forever.

And there will likely be a winter spike with COVID-19 and a new variant. And new booster vax. And new worries by those prone to worry. All that to say that there will probably be an increase in mask sales again when that happens. Nothing like last year, but hey, maybe enough to get through the existing inventory.

[bk1000]

Out of fashion? When was that nonsense fashionable?

[Terry L Smith]

Going through dialysis the whole mask time from last year, I get a new one dispensed by the charge nurse with every visit. The contract center has given some cloth ones out, still in the plastic. Since the center is the only joint I leave my house for, and since I am the only person in my home, why wear one in the house?

[metmom]

Now, sellers like Henriquez, who spent the past year investing more than $150,000 in her mask business, are trying to figure out how to successfully pivot.

$150 K??????? Is she serious??????

I sew a lot and have a hard time imagining how someone could drop that kind of money into making masks.

[lurk]

I see a boom market in clothing with a MYOB motif.

[wetgundog]

Sell them as “scrotum pouches” or remake into mono-kinins.

[Old Grumpy]

Oh no! That means she (and other mask makers) will have to get a regular JOB now. How awful!

[FatherofFive]

Remove the masks!

[phoneman08]

Plus size bathing suits perhaps?

[Trillian]

Why would anyone see this as a permanent career?

[lee martell]

She knows how to assemble, support and run a business.
Maybe she could try what is working for a few others:
Chicken Aprons!

The Chicken Apron is really just a small patch of cloth lying on the back of a Hen. Lightly fastened with a string.
This piece of cloth helps to protect the Hen from having the feathers on her back plucked out by Roosters trying to get her attention.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Simple, been around forever

Easy Come Easy Go

[Bones75]

Who didn’t see this coming? Sell something else. Fidget spinners, maybe?

[Kudsman]

There’s always dial-a-porn. She could be a foot model. Maybe.

[Texas Eagle]

Too stinking bad. Go back to making whatever you were making before the hysteria.

[gitmo]

Make something that is in demand.