June 2012
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The finer points of European Children’s Style –...
Fierson’s, my children’s store in Bronxville, is well-known for carrying upscale American and European lines. Many customers frequent the boutique or websites (particularly Designersbestforkids.com) to buy the assortment of high end European clothing from designer brands like Catimini ,Monnalisa and Lili Gaufrette found both in the store and on the websites. Consequently, I have a veritable...
The Demise of Elegance: Are Quality and Taste A...
I am out of step. Out of step and hopelessly lost. There appears to be an array of people dancing to a tune I neither particularly like, nor understand. The tune is shrill and grating; akin to a seriously “pitchy” American Idol contestant singing “The Greatest Love of All”.
As the owner of Fierson’s, an upscale children’s boutique known for selling tasteful, high-quality goods, I look around...
May 2012
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Are Matt Lauer, Ann Curry, Al Roker and their...
Four stores in my town closed last week.
Not one, not two, not three, but four. In one day.
The town is not found in one of Pennsylvania’s old steel-mining areas. Nor is it found in the automobile-reliant suburbs of Detroit. In fact, it is not any of the towns that might first come to mind when watching news reports of decimated Main Streets across the county. It is, instead, found in an...
April 2012
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We’re asking our two year olds WHAT??
I see it all the time.
As a store owner of Fierson’s an upscale children’s boutique in Bronxville, NY, I bear witness to the disturbing trend I see among parents who eagerly ask their children (who are at an age when they can barely string together three or four words, much less offer a cogent opinion) if they “like” a certain outfit being considered for purchase.
I don’t say much, but I want...
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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
I recently spent a weekend in Florida visiting family. During this brief stay, I found myself frequently bringing up “unintended consequences” with my sister, who writes a blog for the Huffington Post and with whom I share a similar point of view on things significant and insignificant.
After we had initially discussed this idea of “unintended consequences”, we kept looking differently at all...
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TO VEIL or NOT TO VEIL?
To veil or not to veil? That is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler……
Okay..okay…you get it. Perhaps not as pressing as the precise question posed by Hamlet, it is, nevertheless an oft-heard inquiry that speaks to the quandary many mothers and daughters find themselves in at this time of year.
For those of you new to these blogs, I am the owner of Fierson’s in Bronxville, an upscale...
March 2012
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WHY DOES THIS AMERICAN GO OVERSEAS TO BUY?
I am definitely pro-American. I like to support those closest to home, to support our American economy. I not only want to do it, I feel that, to a large extent, it is my duty to do so.
Like many Americans, I am all too familiar with the statistics and the devastating impact the loss of manufacturing jobs has had in this country. Yes, I know that manufacturing supports over 18 million jobs in...
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FIRST COMMUNION or FIRST WEDDING?
Ahhh… the shared dream of mothers and daughters everywhere: to see their little girls make that much-anticipated walk down the aisle. A vision in white, walking slowly down the long aisle with all eyes in the church trained on them.
But wait??? WHOA…Back up that tape. There is some confusion here!! The girl walking down that aisle is NOT our little girl, all grown up. She is NOT our daughter in...
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THE ETERNAL APPEAL OF MAD MEN and DON DRAPER: WHY...
My girlfriends and I have been emailing about it, texting about it, tweeting about it, and awaiting it: the long-anticipated premiere of Mad Men.
Yes…it’s coming. Finally. After what seems like an interminably long wait (protracted contract negotiations and network machinations), March 25th will mark the eagerly anticipated return of the show and its ever dapper, debonair rogue, Don Draper.
We...
