Version Control by Palmer Dexter

Author:Palmer, Dexter [Palmer, Dexter]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016-02-22T23:00:00+00:00

Couldn’t she, you know, just look? There didn’t seem to be a single article of clothing on display here: even the mannequins were nude. “I’m going to a party,” Rebecca said. “I need a sort of a going-out party dress. You know.”

“We have just the thing for you,” Clarice the saleswoman said, flipping back her tablet’s cover and quickly tapping her way through a few menus. Three dresses appeared, each being modeled by the same woman (and, in fact, in each image she had the same facial expression, as if her head had been photographed once and repeatedly cut and pasted). One was a black, form-fitting, knee-length, V-neck thing with leather bands that crisscrossed at the bosom and made the whole outfit look vaguely S-and-M-ish (ugh: also, black); the second was a skimpy little red affair that flared at the bottom and featured a bust covered in sequins (argh: no no no no no); the last was a simple, shoulder-baring dress in deep indigo, that looked as if it might shimmer a little in the right light (yes, actually: yes. Maybe).

“You like the blue one,” Clarice said. The pronouncement sounded half like a statement, half like a command. “Blue suits you. Come on and we’ll set you up.”

Feeling a little rushed—she was not expecting mere department-store shopping to involve the sort of hardcore hustle you got when buying a used car—Rebecca said, “I think, I think I like the one in blue, but…could I see it? You know, to try it on?”

Clarice took a step back. “Oh, you’ve never shopped at Conrad’s before.”

Rebecca shook her head slowly. “Not for years.”

“Well, last year we retrenched in order to be able to better compete in the modern marketplace. Our biggest change was the introduction of the Conrad’s Magic Matching Fit System. Which is amazing, and which no online service can provide. You don’t need to try things on here. They just fit.”

“Magic Matching Fit System,” Rebecca said suspiciously—having worked for Lovability for a while or, as some of the more hysterical privacy advocates might have said, having “carried water for Big Data,” she knew the habit corporations had of giving the software being used for invading your privacy the most cheerful name possible.

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