Tag: online shopping
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Playing Dress-Up, 2.0
One of the (many) great things about online shopping is that you can browse items you’d never be able to afford, and don’t have to deal with condescending salespeople who know you couldn’t afford the least expensive piece in the store. You can linger as long as you’d like and no one will burst your…
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Wearable Art
It’s been over a week since I blogged. I got busy, and then I got sick. I’m unfortunately still sick, but at least I’m not busy! Being on a shopping cleanse I regularly see things I want that I can’t buy. And now that I’m just at home with my computer, a couple of magazines…
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Perfect Timing
I’m only a few days into my “no shopping” project and already it feels like the Universe is conspiring against me. This morning I saw the following message in my email: Impeccable timing, is it not? Thanks to the terms of my latest project, instead of 3 months I will have just 10 days to…
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Vintage Mania
At some point in 2009 I discovered vintage fashion – I mean really DISCOVERED it. I did a lot of secondhand shopping when I lived in Tokyo because those were the only clothes I could find that were sized for non-Japanese women. But in the United States I spent years baffled by people who dressed…