Is EVERTHING 'carefully curated' now?

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Seems pretty much every online shop is trying to flog me a carefully curated selection of overpriced something or other.

Or their latest 'edit'

Today I purchased some carefully curated granny pants from M&S (it was from their post menopausal 'edit')

@Niconacotaco

I dislike knit as a noun. It's a jumper.

Yes ' this seasons cosy knits'

Arses

On a scale of 1 to artisan, curate is very near the top. But "craft" is my personal bugbear. A beer might be produced by an independant brewery, but it is not made with glitter and pipe cleaners. It is just brewed, like all beer is.

@Lockheart 😂😂

No one seems to notice that their curated ear, wardrobe edit & sourced home wear is exactly the same as millions of others.

May I add ‘foraged’? As in ‘foraged blackberries/we foraged for blackberries’.
No. You picked them. You went for a walk and picked them so you could eat them.

As one of the Grundys you very much can say foraged! You never hear Eddy talking about 'going foraging, to source his premium holly and mistletoe' do you. Doesn't stop him from picking and selling plenty!

Shops' 'edits' always makes me think 'are you saying the rest of your clothes are crap then?'

Ha, or the 'carefully curated Grundy World of Christmas'. Running any wanky marketing phrase through the mouth of a Grundy, gives a pretty good measure of its true wankiness!

@lottiegarbanzo

Shops' 'edits' always makes me think 'are you saying the rest of your clothes are crap then?'

Yes! Always makes me think they're saying "Look! We've sifted through all the crap to save you a job!"

Carefully curated = expensive as you have to pay extra for an item as it effectively includes the curator’s fee.

I'll add prices without decimals to two places. £7•5 or alternatively just 7•5

Yeah, prices with no £ sign. They can fuck off too.

Edit means changed doesn't it? I edit photos. You might edit a playlist. In that sense then, it was from their post menopausal 'edit' doesn't make sense grammatically. Then again, none of this new wank-speak does. I hate the use of "myself" when "I" or "me" would work much better.

Edit also mean 'decide about inclusion' like those who edit anthologies

At one time it was “pan-fried” that got to me. These days it is “formulated”….....

Urgh, 'curated' is right up there with

pop of colour

Or bold lip

Or trouser as a singular noun.

It is so wanky the emojis almost have their own man bun.

'shop the edit

Also "colourway"... What's wrong with just colour?

“A red lip” - 😡 what just the one? Did you just put red lipstick on one of your lips and not the other?

No of course you didn’t. Boils my piss every time I see it, usually in the Sunday Times Style magazine.

Ah yes, the fashion singular.

It sounds especially bizarre when they refer to trousers as 'a pant'

Yep when I read your OP it was the ‘curated ear’ style and beauty thread which came to mind. Was hilarious.

@Twillow

The word 'designed'/ gets me. It didn't spontaneously generate, did it, of course it was designed!

Me too, has for years! All this non designer gear clearly spontationsly appeared if no one designed it.

How the fuck can you curate an ear? It's your ear! You didn't choose it. You were born with it. Cos it's your ear.

Although this is a perfect opportunity to have my bi-annual rant about 'cheating on' which has now become ubiquitous and makes everyone who uses it sound like an American teen. 'Committed adultery' or 'was unfaithful to' puh-lease unless you are actually a teen in which case you were two-timed.

Just to clarify, Mark's and Sparks don't have any carefully curated granny pants for their post menopausal edit.

I was just being sarky BUT I feel it's only a matter of time.

'Sourced ingredients' = went to Aldi (other supermarkets are available.

You've only sourced something if you've played an active part in its growing, manufacture etc. In Spring I source wild garlic, ie I walk to the end of the garden and pick some.