Posted on 03/01/2017 4:51:00 AM PST by simpson96
NEW YORK — Five years ago, Carolyn Handley walked down the aisle wearing Ivanka Trump shoes in the Trump International Hotel in Chicago. At that point, and until last year, Handley would have called herself a fan of the Trump brands.
“I thought the hotels were great. I thought her clothing line was well designed and well thought out,” said Handley, a Republican who voted for Hillary Clinton for president. At one point she counted almost two dozen Ivanka Trump items in her closet, including about 10 pairs of shoes and three purses.
In the fall, she got rid of them all — including her wedding shoes.
Handley talked about her decision on Twitter, where a number of women have gone to discuss their relationship with the Ivanka Trump brand. (snip)
Jennifer, a Virginia advertising executive who asked that her full name not be used because her comments might upset her conservative clients and because she fears retaliation from Trump supporters, used to spend between $2,000 and $3,000 a year on Ivanka Trump products.
Unlike Handley, Jennifer didn’t make a clean break.
“I had a couple of slip-ups, if you will,” she said.
But since May, she hasn’t bought a thing. Jennifer said there was not one particular incident that made her stop buying Ivanka Trump products. It was the cumulative effect of negative rhetoric.
“I felt really really helpless, I felt really really sad,” she said, “and I thought, well the only thing I can do is absolutely not engage with any of their business brands at all.”
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Virtue-signaling losers.
I don’t think Twitter just aggregates stupidity: I think Twitter actually creates stupidity where it didn’t exist before.
BULLSTALIN
Who is interested in buying and wearing branded, overpriced clothes?
I don't think you used that word correctly. It is called 'Democrat' but can often be mistaken for 'traitor' or 'criminal', possibly even 'butthead' or 'a$$hole', but never 'Republican'.
Old story that CNN thought needed a revisit. Weak sauce CNN, real weak. That’s all they have.
Yup. I smell a fake. Bet if one researches this woman, one find a democrat.
HATE is no way to run a TV station or a political party.
If she felt so strongly about her so called convictions, why does she hide them from her clients?
The new feminism. Boycott a successful woman’s business if you don’t like her father.
That’s okay girls.. there are many more of us who will boycott entire retail businesses... you know Neiman’s Bloomingdales, Macy’s, Etc. so go ahead girls throw out your 1, 2, 5, 10 pairs of shoes. That’s fine. .. we are the smart women and we are boycotting entire businesses not just one brand...we will have actual impact. So go ahead - once again be stupid, throw out perfectly good clothes. However keep this in mind...if you are the fabulous loving tolerant and liberal left you would be donating those clothes to women who can’t go out and buy them. Just a thought but then again, I’m one of the smart women... you are not!
She is a Republican in the same way that some people claim to be Christians because they went to church once.
Excellent.
Probably voted in the primary for Linseed Graham.
..it’s chilly outside....so she went to get a bowl
These people are beyond ridiculous.
I’d go on an Ivanka buying spree but I’m pregnant right now and have no idea what my post partum clothing size will be. That being said, Ivanka would do very well to design stylish clothes for not only pregnant women but post partum nursing moms, too. Speaking from experience with my first two children, clothing that accommodates breast feeding is tough to find.
A prime example of a problem for the White Privileged.
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