I’ve been looking for a pair of corduroys for years. Corduroys are inherently unflattering: a little bulky, saggy-seeming in all the wrong places. Sort of like sweatpants made to look like regular pants. Most stretch out within minutes of pulling them on. Is it too much to ask for a pair of cords that are cozy and decent-looking? READ MORE
Archive for November, 2008
FOUND: THE PERFECT CORDUROYSPosted by Alyssa Giacobbe on 11/24/2008 at 12:14PM | 1 Comment
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RECESSION MAKES COOL STUFF CHEAPPosted by Rachel Slade on 11/21/2008 at 5:01PM | No Comments
He picked up a bidding paddle at the front desk and spent the hour before the event fondling crumbling, leather-bound tomes with obscure titles. Almost all the potential bidders looked alike—erudite, bespectacled, and in their mid-50’s—with the exception of a South Korean film crew that was documenting “American culture” and the young female interns in black aprons walking the floor, making sure no one stowed a priceless volume in his underwear. READ MORE |
WHAT’S IN STORE: ACQUIREPosted by Brigid Sweeney on 11/20/2008 at 3:14PM | No Comments
We recently asked the former Good shop girl to fill us in on the modern-meets-cozy wares that fill her narrow Salem Street shop. Perhaps her oddest selection? It’s called the Ecosphere. |
EAGERLY AWAITING THE ANTM FINALEPosted by Rachel Baker on 11/19/2008 at 12:28PM | No Comments
With such a weighty decision looming on the horizon, there’s one question on our minds: Why can’t we shake the weeknight guilty pleasure that is ANTM? We really should have quit watching when controversial celebrity judge Janice Dickinson left the panel, taking most of the show’s fun with her. Now all we’re left with is off-the-rocker host Tyra Banks, whom you might recognize from her recurring role as comedic fodder on E!’s The Soup. Oh, and she also found some success as a supermodel. But seriously, who is going to be America’s…Next…Top…Mo…del? READ MORE |
BOSTONISTA STOWES AWAYPosted by Sascha de Gersdorff on 11/18/2008 at 1:05PM | No Comments
Overstressed and overtired, we drove up to the Stowe area late Friday night, in good company. After a quick fish & chips fix at apres-ski mainstay the Shed, it was up the road to the newborn Stowe Mountain Lodge. Though we’d taken a hard-hat tour of the property last year, we never imagined it’d look like this. READ MORE |
HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS, PART 1: THE CATPosted by Alyssa Giacobbe on 11/17/2008 at 1:04PM | 1 Comment
Most of the friends and family on my list are fairly easy (though, Dad, if you’re reading this, you might want to ask Santa for the new Judge Judy DVD; I can’t do it). But there’s one problem: What to get the cat who has everything? Though I’ve invested in a variety of carpet, sisal, and catnip-dusted cardboard cat scratchers, I’ve thus far resisted getting my pal Joanie a good piece of cat furniture. So she uses our couch, chair, and rugs—anything but the aforementioned cat scratchers—as her posts. Now, our (and by our I mean my boyfriend’s) furniture looks like we have a cat, or maybe eight. But while it’s fine to take a risk on a $40 post that the cat uses twice, it’s much harder to take the leap on a piece of furniture that can run in the hundreds. (Nevermind where to put it so that guests don’t look at you funny.) So after some extensive research, I’ve narrowed it down to three: READ MORE |
CONDITIONING TREATMENTS FOR LUSH LOCKSPosted by admin on 11/14/2008 at 3:18PM | No Comments
My hair has always been long and unmanageable. I’m notorious for going six months without a trim (because I hate when I ask for an inch off the ends, and suddenly four inches of my precious mane fall to the stylist’s floor). But to maintain healthy tresses, you can’t just use an everyday conditioner. Here are my favorite treatments (and some not so good ones) that have helped (or hindered) my quest for lengthy locks. READ MORE |
YET ANOTHER RECESSIONISTA POST: STYLISH ECONOMIC INDICATORSPosted by Brigid Sweeney on 11/13/2008 at 4:37PM | No Comments
But we can’t help it; we have nothing else to talk about. Every morning our inbox is flooded with 40-, 50-, 60-percent-off sales emails as suffering retail outlets desperately try to lure customers; every time we so much as walk by a shop or boutique, we start picturing our hardass Depression-era grandmother, who would kill us with her eyes if she were alive to see us contemplating an orange tweed jacket (even one 60 percent off) in times like these (or, actually, ever). As we patted ourselves on the back for not. Buying. ANYTHING since September, we had never heard of the Lipstick Index or, more recently, the Hosiery Index. |
HOMEGROWN, WHITE HOUSE-CALIBER PUPS MAKE TV DEBUT!Posted by Rachel Baker on 11/12/2008 at 3:19PM | 13 Comments
This morning, just when we thought that we (and the rest of America) had reached cute puppy overload, we got word from Ronayne that the she and her Yorkies will make their national television debut this weekend when they star on Animal Planet show Dogs 101 (Saturday 11/15 at 8 p.m. and Sunday 11/16 at 7 p.m.). READ MORE |
BOSTONISTA FLIPS OUTPosted by Sascha de Gersdorff on 11/11/2008 at 1:24PM | No Comments
Once there, however, we found the homeowner’s warning that standard GPSes often lead guests down an undriveable road. Really? Thanks. If only we’d used FlipKey, a new Boston-based website that provides the real dirt on vacation rentals. |
Last Sunday we decided to check out the rare books and manuscripts auction at Skinner’s. While I was merely curious (I’d gone to my last auction with my parents when I was about 5), my friend had other intentions.
Nikki Dalrymple, owner of new North End home boutique 
It’s that time of year 
It’s not quite fall, not quite winter (and, unbelievably, almost 
As the hassles of the holidays begin to bear down, it’s important to plan your season wisely. And so this weekend, before the travel and relatives and debilitating amounts of food began, I set out intending to get a start on my holiday shopping.
We realize we are 
Ahead of the curve as usual, we first 
We recently rented a house in Nowheresville, NH. The place was a dream, and the trip, divine. Getting there? Not so much. After a four-hour battle with Friday afternoon traffic, our navigation system lead us off the beaten path and onto a country-dark dirt road that was liberally sprinkled with sharp rocks, cavernous ditches, and (we swear) the 
