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01.14.2013

Four Awesome Puffer Coats (Almost All On Sale!)

Puffers: They’re a necessary evil of winter, sort of like snow boots and Chapstick. To be honest, we’d rather have winter, than live in the 45-degree post-apocalyptic non-winter of last year. So, bring on winter. And with it, we guess, the puffer coat, even if 99% of them are engineered to make us look like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man.

We like this Theory coat so much that we already own it. In vest form, anyway. It’s cut short but it’s surprisingly non-bulky. It’s cheaper than normal Theory because it’s part of their Uniqlo collaboration. Theory jacket, was $129.99, now $99.99

We hate those shoes and don’t understand why the sleeves are pushed up, but we think this is a fairly trim take on the puffer, thanks to that nipped-in waist and pillow collar. Jessica Simpson down puffer coat, was $200, now $84.99

We love this because it’s so unapologetically like wearing a blanket outside and calling it a coat. Vivienne Westwood Anglomania puffer coat, was $475, now $229.99

This is advertised as a puffer coat, even if it’s the total opposite—lovely and sleek and slim and just generally not puffy. Well, it has to go on sale at some point. Helmut Lang puffer coat, $695

01.10.2013

Our New Favorite Shop: Mill

We’ve been spending a bit of time in San Francisco lately, and “a bit” is exactly long enough for us to know that our new favorite store is Mill. We mean “favorite store” in the sense that we like to wander in and see all the things we can’t afford, because the price points are more appropriate for people who are working in “tech” than people working in “writing.” Still: We’re not going to hold that against it, because everything is so lovely and perfect and even writers can occasionally take all the change they found in their apartment to one of those penny-counters at TD Bank and hope there’s enough to buy a shirt (or a jacket! or a magazine.) What we’ve found is that we’re pretty happy with a 5:1 ratio of Forever 21 in our closet to properly nice things, at least until we develop, say, an app.

This is basically the non-leather version of the coat SJP was wearing with leggings. Barbour coat, $449

That is like the prettiest pattern we ever saw. Janezic top, $405

This is from St. James, the company behind those $150 striped T-shirts. St. James cardigan, $345

This is from one of our favorite designers, Iacoli + McAllister. Speaking of things we can’t afford, we seriously want their lights, too. This is actually a lot cheaper. Iacoli + McAllister necklace, $70

03.01.2011

The Oscars: Final Ideas

Now that all (most of) the Oscars brouhaha has died down, we can honestly say there were but a few looks where we sat back and said: “Well, that was delightful.” (We’re tough customers, apparently, sitting in our apartment, in leggings and a t-shirt we bought in Laos for $2.) Anyway: these are a few of them, and the take-aways, as well. For, you know, our next red carpet event. Red carpet everyday! Surely someone, somewhere, is thinking that.

We truly did love Anne Hathaway’s tuxedo and skinny pant moment, above. This was not the first time she’d gone there. Here’s another look (and one much better adapted to a non-Oscars lifestyle):

We’d like this look best with a tuxedo jacket and skinny jeans. “Tuxedo jacket” is one of those terms that seem to automatically make this much more expensive than, say “black blazer with satin lapel.” Given that, our first choice would be this one from Topshop:

Topshop tuxedo jacket, $135

We would pair this with a white tee and skinny gray jeans—let’s keep it in the Topshop family:

Baxter jeans, $80

Google “purple lace,” as we did after seeing Scarlett Johansson’s Dolce and Gabbana dress, and you get … an awful lot of underwear. This is our favorite of what we found. Also, the AmericanAppare