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Recently I was reading a blog post where several commenters mentioned desiring the life they see in the Pottery Barn catalog. One commenter explains “I always imagine that the people in them are together, affluent, peaceful, rested, happy, and that it’s perpetually sunny and 75 out. Sigh.” And another says, “ It’s not so much the furniture I’m obsessed with but the life these so-called people live. The stuff they have written on their french-style “to do” chalkboards, chessboards on living room tables, golden retrievers, the immaculate gardening coats and shoes on the rack, hobbies involving boats.”
Embarrassingly, I can certainly admit to having similar feelings whenever my monthly Pottery Barn catalog arrives, but lately, perhaps even more embarrassingly I’ve been feeling more drawn to idealized commercials. Specifically this commercial:
This play list represents the songs that I can imagine playing in the background of my Zooey Deschanel, cotton commercial life filled with flowy dresses, bright shoes and retro bicycles:
P.S. I think it is especially cruel of the cotton people to not actually sell any of the dresses featured i the commercial. If anyone can tell me where I can actually buy even one of the dresses Zooey wears in this commercial, I will be forever grateful.
Emily Ostergaard is self diagnosed as tone deaf, yet still manages to enjoy most music. She could not be more excited for the approaching spring and summer seasons and the adventures that are sure to accompany them. She works at the University of Chicago as a research assistant for the Language Development Project. You can follow her on Twitter to hear more about her attempts to live her life like the Zooey Deschanel for Cotton commercial found above.
