Seattle company dresses up coffee cups
Posted by TheShot on 14 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends
It’s only January 14, 2006 and I already have a nominee for the 2007 “Unclear On The Concept” Awards.
According to the Seattle Times, Seattle-based CupCouture has decided to create high-end fashion accessories for the paper coffee cup, using designs such as faux furs and vintage fabrics: Seattle company dresses up coffee cups.
Talk about putting lipstick on a pig. I’m not sure who deserves more public humiliation: CupCouture or the people who are investing in this venture. But perhaps there will always be markets for tricked out Ford Escorts instead of spending the same money on a decent car.
Here’s a crazy idea: to truly dress up a coffee cup, how about drinking your coffee from something other than what you’d use at your 3-year-old’s birthday party? It might even make the coffee taste less like paper and more like, well, coffee.
Nah… that’s just too crazy.
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