I’m not a thong girl. The invention of the “boy short” was really a blessed excuse to continue wearing a grandma pant. As a teacher by day and yogi by night, I believed that thongs had little business in my life. But the increasingly lower cut denim coupled with VPL fears, has forced me to [...]

Ah, there’s so many things I need to say about J. Crew—that they were a staple of my high school years, that it’s rumored their cashmere is milled by Loro Piana, that when they began opening retail stores I was only 16…and bought a green, cotton roll neck sweater on a school trip in Washington [...]

Fine, I’ve said it. And whether you pronounce it in the original French as Tar-jhay or you’ve anglicized it back to its bull’s eye pronunciation given at inception, the reality is this: many of us are sneaking out to buy some cute, cheap finds at the same place where we stock up on toilet paper [...]

The good news and the bad I’ve never been the trendsetter amongst my friends. I’m never the first one to find the great new jeans or the hot new restaurant. Although I’m no lemming, I’m no leader of the pack either. So when I landed in Sabon by accident, and quickly became obsessed with their [...]