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Shopping Evolves

February 22, 2012

Go on down to Orchard Street today, and you won’t recognize the place. Seems like it was just yesterday that the pushcarts lined the sidewalks on Orchard, giving birth to individual merchandising in America. This one had a bin of socks, that one a pile of belts. A cart of oranges here, a cart of [...]

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A Sense of Taste

February 20, 2012

From our “What’s Up With That?” department, do you ever wonder what movie critics do on their days off—do they go see a movie? You ever wonder if the manicurist does her own nails? When it comes to clothing, we may not be exactly what we wear. Still: clothing gives us hints of someone’s attitude, [...]

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Orbital Goodness

February 19, 2012

Tomorrow in history: In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit our planet. He did it in just under five hours—about how long it takes to get to the Jersey Shore on weekends in high season. The first thing John Glenn said after his spacecraft splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean and [...]

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Clothes to Put You in Orbit

February 17, 2012

Touchdown: it’s not just for football. On this day in 1996, NASA’s NEAR Shoemaker blasted off from earth and would become the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. The asteroid was named 433 Eros, which is about as weird a sexy name for an asteroid as we’ve ever heard. What impressed us, though: essentially [...]

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Your Wardrobe Programming: 24/7

February 15, 2012

Tomorrow in history…well, this is fairly amazing. On February 16th, 1957, the Toddlers’ Truce got cancelled. And yes, you read it here first. Seems that the British government said that their TV station had to shut down every Monday through Friday from six to 7 in the evening so that all of England could put [...]

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Romancing the Wardrobe

February 14, 2012

This blog’s Romance Department wants to pass on its best wishes for a most happy Valentine’s Day. (Guys, if you missed it: whoops. You’ll be hearing all about that. And if you don’t hear about it…well, then you’ll have also heard all about it. And good luck with that.) We always like to provide fair [...]

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An Urgent Message

February 12, 2012

Yes, we know that we run the risk of alarming the population with a headline like that.The prospect of wearing excellent clothing should not alarm. And yet, we feel compelled to alert you to the fact that this is February. And that means there are fewer days in this month than any other during the [...]

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In Praise of Shoelaces

January 31, 2012

Sooner or later we had to do it. Long underappreciated, working tirelessly, always there, always adjustable, moving with the situation. What is it about the shoelace that continues to…not inspire a lot of awe or joy or gratitude? We don’t know. We say the time has come for the shoelace to have its day in [...]

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Get Back to Essential Clothes

January 30, 2012

This day in history: in 1969 the Beatles performed together for the last time, and it happened on the roof of Apple Records in London. Picture this: the Beatles are up on the roof, playing, and the police show up. Why? Because nearby office workers have complained that they can’t get their work done. Whoa. [...]

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We Are The Dave’s

January 29, 2012

Alongside today being the birthdays of, oh, W.C. Fields and Tom Selleck, the Investigations Unit of this blog has discovered an all-important calendar even. Today is the 27th anniversary of the recording of “We Are The World.” This is notable in that it brought together the unlikely combinations of musicians who, if you ask us, [...]

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