Oh! Janice! That made me laugh. That 'bold evil' made me laugh. lol
SBG, and owls were the new ___? For the life of me, I cannot remember what the owls replaced.
Perhaps marketing changed with the advent of blogs written by fabric designers. Before those, maybe the novelty fabrics were for kids and kids had their mothers buy whatever animal they thought was cute-- and after the blog marketing, maybe the novelty fabrics started being for adults. We used the 'modern' cute prints because we didn't want to be old and out-dated. lol