RETAIL ROUNDUP

Goodness gracious! We note that the Food and Drug Administration on

Wednesday approved a new wrinkle-removal technology created by Costa

Mesa-based ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc. This means we will soon be able to

get all our wrinkles zapped off with lasers and suffer far fewer

complications than we usually do.

Is life great, or what?

IN THE NATTY-YET-PRACTICAL DEPARTMENT

Better still, our newly de-wrinkled epidermis can be complemented by

some snazzy duds from Hart, Schaffner & Marx, which is having a trunk

show at Nordstrom’s South Coast Plaza location Friday.

To be honest, we had never heard of Hart, Schaffner & Marx before

Wednesday, but we are pretty much out of the men’s fashion loop. So we

looked on the Web and discovered that they sell something called a Jack

Nicklaus blended blazer in a natty-yet-practical mix of polyester and

worsted for the low, low price of $215.

It’s named after Jack Nicklaus. How can you go wrong?

We think, by the way, that the “wheat” color jacket fabric would look

particularly smashing against a Ken-like, wrinkle-free bod.

LOTS OF HOT TOTS!

And just to add an additional ray of sunshine to an already bright

picture, Bloomingdale’s at Fashion Island is having a “Hot Tots” photo

contest. Parents of children ages 8 and younger are encouraged to submit

“humorous” images of their wee creatures. First prize is a $250

Bloomingdale’s “B-Kids shopping spree,” whatever that means.

We’re particularly excited about this news for a reason you can

probably guess: we plan to win the contest ourselves!

We at Retail Roundup are seriously hot tots, and once we have our

various wrinkles surgically corrected, we’re going to look real, real

young.

Does that mean we can pass for 8 years old?

Hey, science can do some amazing things.