Elf On The Shelf: A Christmas Tradition: How To Create Your Own Tradition

Create Your Own Tradition

Elf on the Shelf, a recent and wildly popular Christmas tradition among young families has sparked many pleasant emotions with both children and adults. There have also been some who view the simple game as manipulative and blends the idea of child play with real world observation and the notion that one is always being watched. In an attempt to both increase children’s interaction with the Christmas tradition, and also appeasing the naysayers, Elf on the Shelf will be introducing a clothing line in addition to fashionable miniature doorways that parents can place around the home to reduce the imaginary gap between reality and fiction. Parents find just as much enjoyment if not more with the elf doll in attempts to out-do other friends on social media. Adding to the repertoire of merchandise will not

Each article of clothing would be fashioned from a list of options to include preset patterns, styles, button and shoe colors etc. The customer would feel as if they were creating a one of a kind design personalized to their taste. Stylish designs could even be posted on the company’s website along with the creator’s name to promote this individualization of the tradition. Mass customization has its benefits in consumer markets. According to (Pollard, Chuo, & Lee, 2013, pg. 102) “Mass customization means that manufactures are able to customize products on large scale and at high speed, as well as lower cost.” Key to the success of this venture is maximizing the number of stock components across all forms of the clothing line. Offering 20 different clothing patterns, 3 fur lining colors and up to 10 different accessories of which you pick 3, say shoes, belt and scarf allows for the possibility of approximately 14,500 different combinations or "20×(" ■(3@1)")×(" ■("10" @"3" )")"