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Debby
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Username: Debby
Post Number: 1579
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 10:13 pm: | 
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They've been here a while, too...I thnk it's just that people wear summery stuff almost all year.
Except for yesterday, when it was a bone-chilling 55 deg. and people were in corduroy and turtlenecks |
Valley_girl
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Username: Valley_girl
Post Number: 7
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 10:34 pm: |
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Shawls with creases all over them. Steamer. Jiffy J-2. $180. |
shh
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 2089
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 10:38 pm: |
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Greenetree, that was what I used to do, get a new Coach bag for Christmas every year. No written law. I got my first in 1989 "the Sation Bag" and have it somewhere in the attic, for my girls. (Or for when I'm old and like that style again.) Now unfortunately I really do find them a bit heavy, so I tend to not use them. (Plus I'm going through all the KO's, destroying them and then I'll replace them.)
Speaking of bags, a month or so ago I was at a friend's kids' b-day party and her dad's new wife was there with a new REAL hermes birkin bag she got as a gift from her employer. The new wife (who has no kids of her own) was dressed in nice clothes and already had her boots spilled on, so she was being very careful with her stuff. For some reason, she had her bag at the table, OPEN (???) and my friend's sister-in-law accidentally spilled a cup of diet coke in said open birkin bag. New Wife almost flipped. I felt so bad for her, she was taking everything out, wiping it down, but she was a little miffed and said next time she'd wear sweats! JUICY anyone?
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greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 3702
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 10:55 pm: |
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Shh - You are a better person than am I. I would've been hysterical. Part of owning such things is knowing when and where to wear them. Otherwise, it comes off as a kind of pretentiousness that deserves what it gets. When I dress in a certain manner around my nieces and nephews, I accept the risk that my cashmere sweater may end up with juice all over it.
Hermes at a kid's b-day party? Puhleeze. This isn't Old Greenwich or Newport.
Another great faux pas.... |
mem
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Username: Mem
Post Number: 4537
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 10:56 pm: |
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51st and 6th, Ann Taylor Petites. You just can't go wrong. I still wear some classics I bought there 10 years ago, most of their fabrics really hold up, not to mention choosing the ageless styles - worth the investment (This is women's corporate dress speak).
Makes having to saw off the coach tag rather...meaningless. But that tag IS gone!
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Debby
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Username: Debby
Post Number: 1583
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 7:29 am: |
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her dad's new wife was there with a new REAL hermes birkin bag she got as a gift from her employer
sounds like Dad better start looking for wife #3  |
Wendyn
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Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 1284
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 9:00 am: |
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I bought a Dooney & Bourke bag last year (ebay!)and like it better than the last Coach bag I had, mainly because it is lined. Not sure if Coach bags are still unlined but I always hated spending that much money for something that left little leather shavings on my stuff.
I HATE those insignia bags.
I think I'm going for non-leather for spring. My DB bag is just way too heavy. |
Zoesky1
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Username: Zoesky1
Post Number: 658
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:08 am: |
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You guys are such reverse snobs. I have three LV bags (a Speedy, a bucket and the tiny little one). I like them because they are classic (the basic one with LV on it, that is). You can go into vintage stores and find the same pattern, the same bags from the 1920s; LV has been making the Speedy since the 1940s with very few changes. They last forever. They will never go out of style; I'll still be using mine when I'm 80. They look great, and they are fantastically durable -- they not leather, nor do they pretend to be. They are canvas, and they're not heavy. That's why they endure. |
algebra2
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Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 2877
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:18 am: |
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I'm not a reverse snob. I have fabulous handbags -- today I have my Tod's bag, I have a great DB bag, an old "never go out of style" Mark Cross bag, a handful of Chanel bags ... fortunately most are from my employer. The Chanel ones do have the CCs but just on the zipper, the Tod's and Mark Cross don't say the brand anywhere noticable. There's nothing wrong with having fabulous things -- that's no faux pas! |
shh
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 2092
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:22 am: |
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I can see your point, & certainly didn't mean to offend—I walk around with enough of them (the bags that is). I was more poking fun at myself and the whole head-to-toe label. The basic ones are classic.
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It also depends who's wearing it and when. When we were selling them, I felt obliged to wear a new one all the time and it became a little too obsessive. (I mean, where the hell am I going?) Now, whenever we go out I wear a nice one but don't put much thought into it the rest of the week.
I also love nice things and don't think there's anything wrong with that. |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 666
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:30 am: |
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Alg - do you know anywhere to get Tod's bags around here for a discount? I have my eye on one, but I just can't spend that much money on a bag...it's against my nature. Actually, it's against my wallet. It's perfectly aligned with my nature!
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algebra2
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Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 2879
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:33 am: |
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Someone said there were good knock-offs but I've never seen them. I could never spend a mortgage payment on a handbag but I do love it so. Regarding Shh's story -- if someone spilled a soda in it I think I'd cry. |
shh
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 2093
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:33 am: |
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I heard from a friend (and former customer) there's a lady in Short Hills. Can't guarantee authenitcity however. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 3705
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:36 am: |
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Wendy - all Coach items are now fully lined. Except the mini-wristlets. |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 667
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:36 am: |
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I'd rather get the real thing, but of course can't splurge that hugely....
<sigh>
maybe some day
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Wendyn
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Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 1287
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:39 am: |
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Thanks greenetree, good to know for future splurges. |
gozerbrown
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Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 620
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 11:09 am: |
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How about guys who were short-sleeve dress shirts with ties? That is the worst.
Yesterday I saw a guy with his socks tucked into his shoes! I couldn't wait to post that. |
LilLB
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Username: Lillb
Post Number: 359
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 11:18 am: |
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Hmmm...How do you tuck your socks into your shoes? I can't picture it. |
shh
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 2095
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 11:27 am: |
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Too much botox/ plastic surgery is a major fashion faux pas these days.
Everyone from 40 to 70 is starting to look the same! Maybe in minor doses it helps, but there are so many people with that unnatural sheen on their cheeks and foreheads nowadays. I saw Joan Rivers on the TV Guide Channel this weekend, and she and my mother-in-law can pass for sisters. |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 668
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 2:42 pm: |
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I think not aging gracefully and naturally is a BIG faux pas in general.
not sure if this was listed a few pages back, but the other day I was hit with a colleague wearing a nauseating amount of perfume.
MAJOR faux pas!! |
shh
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 2097
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 3:39 pm: |
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Was it Angel?
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sally
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Username: Sally
Post Number: 36
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 7:06 pm: |
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I don't think anyone over 6 yrs old should wear a baseball type cap backwards . It's just too cutesy . It really looks stupid on grown men . |
Rick B
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Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 438
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 10:41 am: |
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"Pleated khakis"
whats wrong with pleated pants? I always thought the flat fronts looked kind of "funny".
Why do sweat pants have such a bad rap man? I love getting home from work adn changing in my sweats! Perhaps I have given up adn I just don't realize it?? |
Joe
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Username: Gonets
Post Number: 657
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 12:06 pm: |
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On women I hate those blouses that have a strap or sleeve over one arm while the other arm is bare. It looked good on Wilma Flintstone but that's it. Again it's one of those fashions that actually undermines the assets of a shapely woman. |
Bobkat
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 7336
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 12:08 pm: |
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Yeah and what is wrong with combovers? Some of us don't wanna spring for a rug!!!! |
Ukealalio
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Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 1761
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 12:41 pm: |
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Bobkat, around 10 years ago (in Brooklyn) I was getting my hair cut and the barber told me, "If you just grew your hair a little longer, I could do something so no one will notice that bald spot". I immediately told the barber to get the clippers out and give me a severe buzz cut. Since then I have bought myself a clipper and in warm months take a razor to my head, it's liberating. If ya like that comb-over look go for it. I saw a guy yesterday however with a 3 way comb over (not enough hair on any side to cover anything, so some from the left side, some from the right and a lot from the back) when a fierce wind picked up, the poor guy looked like he was wearing a bad hood that kept on flying off. SKIN IS IN !!!!!. |
Bobkat
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 7337
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 12:52 pm: |
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Uke, I have been doing the same thing for the last 15 years.
I caught my reflection in a store window in a high wind, with the combover sticking out about six inches and my naked scalp exposed. |
drewdix
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Username: Drewdix
Post Number: 807
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 1:50 pm: |
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I also go with the easy-clean dome.
Very low maintenance.
But what's with wearing your cell-phone headset with the little mouthpiece extension ALL the time? |
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