Jacked from Styleite.com because I couldn't have said it better.
Online clothing descriptions are generally boring, so Modcloth tried to jazz up the product info on this $275 Lauren Moffatt skirt by describing it as the perfect thing to wear when volunteering in Tanzania.
Yes, Tanzania, the African nation with one of the world’s poorest economies in terms of per capita income. You know, the country that has a GDP smaller than the United States’ last economic stimulus package. Clearly what would really fix Tanzania’s deep-set economic troubles is a coterie of rich blogger-friendly Western consumers to come over wearing outfits that cost more than most of its citizens make in a month and give them advice. And they’d totally do it in a heartbeat, because solving the world’s problems just gives everyone the warm fuzzies, doesn’t it? Plus it’s totally a great excuse to travel! Think of how tan you could get!
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