

After all, the heroine, Rebecca Bloomwood, is a walking, talking, pratfalling embodiment of acquisitiveness, a fashion queen who admits upfront that, from childhood, her goal in life was to obtain a credit card and warns that, “A man will never love you as well as a store.”įor a guy, anyway, such a mindset presents a bit of an obstacle, and a character espousing it may not be one with whom you might choose to spend a couple of hours. in 2000, would seem to test the limits of how far the temptations of shopping and the needless amassing of accoutrements can be fetishized. At first glance, “Shopaholic,” which launched in print in the U.K.
