This recently showed up in my inbox.

Somehow I can see Details editors deriding this cheap, sweatshoppy messenger bag for a what-not-to-wear feature in the first issue you receive — along with sporting over-it Wayfarers, Ed Hardy T-shirts and Dad jeans.

Is this really a draw for a new subscriber? People are dying to feel charitable these days, however disingenuous the impulse. So why not donate the cost of production/export from China involved with this throwaway free item to Gulf oil spill clean-up efforts? (Or maybe to the Vogue/CFDA fund if you’re more fashionably inclined.) I’d re-subscribe. Probably. — Paul Dexter