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NEW YORK, N.Y. - In the city, everything is fashion. You go with the flow. Need a scarf in the dead of winter? There's a guy selling them out in the streets. For $10, no tax. Same for ties, books, t-shirts, and skirts and shoes.
But it is the hats that get me. I know hats. I am a hat, especially in the long, hot summer, when a little shade for the Ol' noggin' does help.
So, here we are. Here, along the many shops on the Upper West Side. And, there, on the sidewalks is where you'll find a small army of hat vendors. Neat bargains, yes. Fashionable covers.
On the busy corner of 67th and Columbus (see photo above), you can get one for $20-$25 - with some haggling. Most tourists fork-over the stated price. New Yorkers will get the vendor to lower it by $5-$10, easy, take-it-or-leave-it. And some of these hats are of the $50-$100 variety you'd find at J.Crew in the Time Warner Shopping Center.
Yep. It's possible to pick up a shirt, shoes, belt, and hat for the evening date. Out on the sidewalks. And if the date falls-through, well there's the $1 copy of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to read with that bottle of red wine. Read until the mood for boozing at the clubs pops-in and there you go again...
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1 comment:
So Mr. Alcatraz did you buy yourself a hat?? Or were you just bending the elbow, enjoying the cool evenings with red wine???
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