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Make Mine a Double: Gap Men’s Khakis and Jameson
A Boston Globe article this past weekend about stores enticing shopping-phobic men through their doors by offering whiskey and other manly perks reminded me of this one time back when I lived in...
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Ruminations on Cashmere Sweaters
Poor pitiful me. I’ve never had a cashmere sweater. I think the closest I came was a tangerine-colored J-Crew cashmere shell bought at a sample sale more than 10 years ago. I wore it as a tank on...
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Wake Up and Face Your Closet
It’s that time again. Yes, that time. Time to decide what I’m going to wear to work tomorrow. Much as I love clothing, I hate this part of my day. I mean, I can barely make it through one day, and...
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An article in this month’s More magazine struck a chord with me. More‘s tagline is “for women of style and substance,” which I take to be marketing code for “women in their forties who are smart and...
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Pajamas and Staying Warm Through Hurricane Sandy
Mom and I bought matching puffin pajama pants on a trip to Maine one summer. Holing up in my apartment to ride out Hurricane Sandy in Brooklyn, wearing a hoodie and a pair of puffin-print pajama...
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Am I a Sartorial Psychic?
A couple months ago, Mom and I were spending an afternoon browsing in the Meatpacking District. As one is wont to do, we ambled into Anthropologie and made a beeline for the sale section. Perhaps...
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Twelve Months of Shoes
Did someone say shoe of the month? Some time ago I became aware that there is such a thing as a shoe-of-the-month club. There are several, actually. One called Shoedazzle, styled by Rachel Zoe. A J....
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Wedge Sandals and (not) Rethinking my Priorities
I hate to admit it, but it turns out I’m more shallow than I thought. Here’s what happened: I was on my way to meet the lovely AA, who, p.s., can rock a denim skort like nobody’s business, and I was...
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All About Timing for this Year’s Nordstrom Anniversary Sale
I could be forgiven for lusting after these Frye boots at the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale, no? In shopping, as in love, timing is everything. Being a perpetual hermit and curmudgeon, I don’t feel much...
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A Homeric Journey (for a Rebecca Minkoff black leather wristlet)
If there’s one thing I learned at the Muse and the Marketplace writer’s conference in Boston last weekend, it’s that every story is, in its essence, The Odyssey (yes, the Homer one you read in high...
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