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And if you’ve ever shopped there, especially in its pre-Lisa Alexson days, you’ve been slighted too. Just check out this “critical shopper” piece by Cintra Wilson in Tuesday’s New York Times.
“My shorthand for the look was always “capitalist burqua” or “corporate office submissive”: cubicle-wear of so-so quality for the single girl in her late 20s whose self-esteem has been almost beaten to death by the beauty industrial complex and whose decent education has been punished with a thanklessly demanding office job. She’s a can-do Cinderella who has always had to change the oil in her own pumpkin and is too overworked to have a healthy social life outside the workplace. Her outfits must therefore be corporate-respectable, yet body-conscious enough to attract a nice tax attorney husband.”
But never fear, Ann Taylor has supposedly been reborned, with all its Chloe/Prada/Lanvin/Balenciaga-loving fingernails.
