Last week, Bag Lady asked a fabulously stylish friend’s advice on how to finish off an outfit for an upcoming formal event. Black dress and black heels, so plain black nylons, right? The friend’s reply over email read like a decorative dagger through the heart. “Black nylons and/or tights could tilt toward Italian grandma territory.” […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: We wanna be like RBG
With some trends, you welcome their return with a warm embrace. How have you been? How are the kids? Did that tennis elbow ever clear up? Others score only a curt nod. I remember you, feathered alligator clip/wedge flip-flop/fringed Old Orchard Beach belly shirt, and no, we won’t be friends again. Inspired by Ruth Bader […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Bring on the artisanal toilet seats
Thanks to Prince Charles and one particularly peppy cherry menthol, this week Bag Lady was initially torn between shopping for toilet seats or cough drops. Then, she wanted to shop for all things love after hearing that her favorite, made-over fella on the new season of “Queer Eye” got engaged to the sweetheart he was trying to […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Nailed it
To describe Bag Lady’s nails as the nails of a beet farmer is to insult the noble beet-growing profession. Her nails’ utter haphazard raggedness is only highlighted by the fact that it seems like every other woman she encounters on a daily basis has the most fantastic, bedazzled, polished, tipped-to-perfection hands ever. Shopping Siren included. […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Hanging with the Holiday Bargain Outlet
Looking for One Direction perfume? Or sweet deals on gourmet honey, fleece-lined rain boots and bottles of sparkling Perrier? Miss the shopping experience that was Caswell’s Liquidation Center? Well, welcome to the Holiday Bargain Outlet. Shopping Siren and Bag Lady started seeing commercials for the new discount shop on outer Main Street in Lewiston a […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Puppies, Tom Brady — life's little things
It’s happened again. Just as every January brings a glut of curbside Christmas trees and the delight that is International No Pants Day, it’s once again brought a bout of retail ennui for Bag Lady that’s best summed up as, shopping, eh. To be clear, by February, it, too, shall pass and I’ll be eagerly […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: These are a few of our Favorite Things
Just to put it out there, we’re not like Oprah in many, many ways — that’s a high fabulousity bar to set — but we, too, have Favorite Things. Things that make us laugh. Things that make us feel cozy. Things that make cleaning the toilet 95 percent less awful — and heck yeah, that’s […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Christmas Tree, oh Christmas Tree (Shops)
I don’t want to rub it in, but Bag Lady went to Christmas Tree Shops this week. There was sweet $10 off $50 savings. Bluetooth-enabled knit beanies. Vats of peanut butter mixed with dark chocolate. I know, I know. It still stings a bit that it’s not here in L-A. Despite our most fervent wishes […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: 'Stranger Things' things
For the longest time, Shopping Siren resisted the pull of “Stranger Things.” She didn’t have Netflix and didn’t feel inclined to get it just for one show. Even if everyone was raving about that one show. Even if Bag Lady was one of the people doing the raving. Eventually — read: last week — Shopping […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Fryeburg Fair, ho!
Between the six-packs of padded bras, the tiger-face leggings and the sweet maple cotton candy, I’m not even sure where to start. Maybe at the very beginning. In this column’s storied, 11-year history — can I be so bold as to call it storied? — we have yet to ever shop a fair. So it […]