Sure, City Weekly is gone and the Globe newsroom is getting sliced in a million different ways and the whole paper could go poof next week, but none of that matters: Sarah Schweitzer is back on the Lifestyles of the Rich beat!
Today, she reports that the recession is even hitting people who shop on Newbury Street!
Tamer tastes can be glimpsed up and down Newbury Street. At Ralph Lauren, men are shying away from orange-patterned dress shirts and favoring blue gingham ones, opting for charcoal pinstripe over glen plaid suits.
Oh, Sarah, we've missed you so. But dammit, I'm not giving up my orange-patterned dress shirt no matter what sort of looks people give me. It just too much a part of who I am.
But, yes, even a hard-hearted blogger in his underwear like me had to shed a tear on reading of the sheer generosity in the Back Bay these days: Why, one "wealthy Bostonian, who asked that he not be named, so as not to appear to be flaunting," said he gave up his yellow Ferrari because his neighbors were all losing their jobs. The black Maserati he traded it in for is just so much more understated.
The Outraged Liberal writes that if the Globe goes under, Schweitzer could probably get a job churning out a new reality show: Survivor: Newbury Street:
... The Running of the Scarves at Burberry. Getting a table at Stephanie's. Looking for close-outs at Louis. ...
