These are two pictures we like very much from the new Vogue Paris.

- Because we love it so much, we present our Mad Men fashion spectacular (think: bows!)

- We are involved in something called the Six Item Experiment, thanks only to reader Caille. Here’s our latest post, and here’s all of them.

- We discussed the most ideal of facial cleansers (our vote: Kiehl’s Yerba Mate).

- We debuted an absolutely massive, three-part guide to making the best of a trip to Woodbury Common, the best outlet shopping center on Earth [that we have been to].

- Popomomo, with their gorgeous dresses, is our designer of the week

- We took $100 to the Gap (in our head) and returned with … not very much

Honestly, we’re going to call it the two-item experiment, because that’s all we’ve worn thus far, but—eh, we work at home. This week, we’re working from our parents’ home, because of various rural entertainment activities, and a new puppy(!!!!!!). Which means that even though we see friends every day (everyone moves back home, we’re thinking, eventually) we mostly see them on the way to hiking. Which means we’re wearing workout clothes.

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Going on right now at Modnique! Eighty percent off! No-invite-required sign-up, and they’ll give you a  $5 credit when you do. These are the Sophias, was $495, now $95

Man, do we love it when we get mail from readers.

Dear BS:

This is a bit random, but I’m looking for a new facial cleanser. I have some questions:

A) Do you wash your face everyday?
B) Do you cleanse, tone, and moisturize?
C) Which products do you use?
D) Do you think it makes a difference?

We have answers for this.

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Quite possibly the country’s best outlet complex? With the Balenciaga and the Chanel and the Prada? (And the North Face?) Because we’ve made a three-page special going through our top 10. Required reading if you are heading north on the Thruway! (Or south, depending on your starting point.)

This is the first and only time we are putting a crate full of thongs on our blog. But: $1! From Lululemon! In a weird, non-mathematical way, almost as good as the $8 thongs (also featured) from La Perla!

See the entire guide  here.

We wrote about one of their pieces last week, and now we are very happy to share a few more, because we love them. We love their promotional “about us//this collection” explanation:

Focusing on Russian constructivism, popomomo explored the art and textile designs of Liubov Popova, one of main women from the movement. The movement is reflected in the S/S 2010 line’s strong geometric details and cutout shapes, in pops of colorful trims and abstract prints, and popomomo’s sophisticatedly sexy pieces.

The great thing about this dress….

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It’s so funny—we were set to make Antik Batik (at Gilt) our SSotD, but then we went and looked at the sale Antik Batik stuff on ShopStyle … and didn’t like any of it. We were tempted to make it Beehive Cheese, at Hautelook (with “up to 30% off designer cheese assortments”) but of course, we’d really only want the cheese. So it’s … Tibi, at Gilt (at noon). We are hoping, if not hopeful, that this Tibi one-shoulder dress (was $1395, now $976.50), on sale at Shopbop, will be there.

If we went to the Gap with $100, let’s just say we’d be treating ourselves to a really nice lunch. Or, you know, paying [half of] our student loan[s].

Now: We love the Gap. We actually worked at this specific Gap, above (at least, before it moved from the mall to the other shopping center) while in high school, and we genuinely credit it with giving us the confidence to ask anyone we pass on the street if they would like to add some matching socks to their purchase. Seriously: When we volunteered on a political campaign, we were so inured to people being mean to us that we didn’t even mind doing the door-to-door stuff.

In other words: We want the Gap to do well. We are not quite so sure that it is. Here’s what we found.

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We swear to God, they have not, nor will ever, pay us a cent, but for some reason, this just seems to function like 100X better than most of these services. See, we really want this Orla Kiely dress. ShopStyle informed us this morning it is not $470, but $165. Even though this is still more than we can afford, we are pleased to know about it. “Impressed” is not our usual state of mind, but there we are, regardless.

Tragically, that dress has sold out since we received the alert—like four hours ago!—but at least we feel like we were clued into it. But here’s the link to the ShopStyle page for on-sale Orla Kiely clothes. Impressed. We’re dealing with it.

So today has been a difficult one for our participation in the Six Items experiment. For example, this is a picture of our cat, who has made a nest in the four items of the six that we were not actually wearing at the time.

The other problem we could not take photograph, because it is on our back. One of our six items—and the one we would guess we will actually wear the most—is a black Forever 21 tank top with adjustable straps. A few weeks ago, the left strap snapped, and we, being crafty, but lazy more than crafty, tied it off with a purple rubber band. (Reuse! Recycle! Etc.!) This seemed fair enough, until we were putting it on this morning, and the other strap snapped. (Thank you, Forever 21 quality control!) Seeing as how the rubber band worked so fantastically on the first strap, we found another rubber band and tied this side together. This, of course, is terrible, and we are not sure we could wear this in public if we were not in New Jersey. (We’re kidding ourselves: We’d wear it anywhere.) Then, we went into the bathroom, and saw that due to our rubber band decisions, the left side of the top was sitting super high, while the right was drooping. We went to adjust the strap—and then the freaking adjuster snapped. (Again: Forever 21, built to last. At least a month or two.)

And this, we will confess, is where we went slightly off the rails. Forget this, we thought: There must be an exemption for terribly made clothes that actually break, twice, in an hour. We would have to toss it and bring in, like, a substitute tank top. Surely this was allowed, in the Six Items rules? We were thinking about what might that could possibly be, when we realized that throwing out damaged clothes was probably, actually, the opposite of the Six Items ethos. What happened to reuse, recycle, when we were challenged, even in this slight fashion? We don’t think of ourselves as being particularly disposable-minded, but we were surprised by, and interested in, the fact that we were so quick to throw it out and start fresh. Suffice to say, we are sitting here in a tank top secured by two rubber bands. So, now that we know we’re not doing that very bad thing, we think: Do we take it to be fixed? Our $12 tank top? We do. Or, better, we get our mom to show us how to sew tank tops back together. And in the future, try to buy better quality stuff.

Our other issue was this: When we told one of our friends about Six Items, he said something along the lines of, “Isn’t that philosophically opposed to the entire mission of your blog, which is all about what to buy?” We did think about that, though of course we would disagree. The original motto (back when we had a motto, which was briefly) of this site was: “Shop twice, buy once.” (Like, “Measure twice, cut….”) We shop more than we buy. We buy very, very infrequently, not least because we are, a freelance writer in a recession. (We’re still not over the fact that our tiny bag of pine nuts cost five-freaking-dollars.) Bunnyshop was intended to ensure that we shop mindfully, and buy carefully. We wouldn’t say it’s a perfect philosophical marriage, between Six Items and BS, but we don’t think they’re at odds, either. At least, we really hope not.

Anywhere: day three! Loving the rubber bands.

See all of our Six Items posts here.