Tab top curtains are drapes with little ruffles at the top of the curtain material. This little ruffle, or frill as some call it, something unique. The idea caters to the school of thought that less is more, or in this case, that the most minor change in a product makes for interest and, almost as if by magic, a new product.

Tab top curtains are not new, it should be noted. They’ve popped up through the years on and off and in and out of fashion. However, they’ve never seemed to stay in vogue for very long. One of the reasons for this may simply be that, by design, they don’t hold the minds of we humans for long enough.

Another thought is that they might be seen as just non-tacky enough to make a comeback from time to time, yet kitschy enough that success is entirely fleeting. Such ephemeral notions have not stopped tens of thousands of housewives, however, from going out and purchasing tab top curtains for their home.

The effect is always the same when someone buys these curtains: guests at a home ooh and ahh over the new purchase and often wish that they too had such curtains. They go out, purchase and hang these curtains, and the trend starts all over again. For awhile, and then people grow tired, all too quickly, and the curtains are either thrown away, given away, or saved. ‘Cause you never know about that rainy day when frills will come back into popularity.

We won’t hold our collective breaths on this, but merely have to say that every fashion -whether for the body or for the home, has its place, and its time.

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