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" A man's tailored jacket is like a compartmentalized storage unit with sleeves. Women eye those pockets with envy while searching for a ticket stub lost in a handbag. "
Envy
Man
Searching
" Any woman who has attempted to slip a credit card into an inch-deep trouser pocket knows about the annoying puzzle of women's clothing: Pockets rarely work. "
Work
Credit
Puzzle
" Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly. "
Value
Style
Performance
" Comfortably middle-class, I had shopped for years at the likes of Saks outlet Off Fifth, Banana Republic, and Zara. My mom raised me to believe clothes should be comfortable and practical, not frivolous. "
Comfortable
Believe
Me
" Diamonds may be forever, but emeralds are for 2013. "
Forever
Diamonds
May
" Every Hermes scarf has a tale. "
Every
Tale
Scarf
" For more than a century, New York City has been home to a constellation of department stores whose openings, closings, and transformations have charted the fortunes and foibles of the city itself. "
More
New York
Been
" Hermes scarf designers can be found in places from Poland to Japan, not to mention the U.S. post-office sorting room in Waco, Texas. Kermit Oliver, a longtime postal employee, has designed more than a dozen Hermes scarves. "
Places
Postal
Scarf
" Our social mores no longer conform to a world where nice girls wear skirts that don't cling. "
Wear
Where
World
" Pockets have long been a male/female divide. "
Divide
Pockets
Long
" The Hermes scarf is a coveted, much-collected symbol of success that defines the Paris-based luxury company. But it has no single designer. Rather, the scarves are designed by a far-flung array of freelance artists. "
Success
Single
Scarf
" The power suit is over. "
Over
Suit
Power
" What is it about the cut of certain clothes that signals 'VIP?' Men's Brioni suits and Charvet shirts are famous for it. "
Shirts
Clothes
Famous
" When I dine with CEOs at Michael's in New York or Spago in L.A., we score the best tables. On my own, I wind up seated near the kitchen doors. "
Best
Wind
Kitchen
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