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...literally dusted off a decade-old pair of ragged black leather boots sitting in her closet and visited a shoe-repair shop for the first time in her life. For a fashion-conscious woman, the thought of recycling clothing hurt her pride a bit. "I walked in with my tail between my legs," she says. "It was something, initially, I was not proud of." Then she saw the price: $16. And the work: the boots looked as good as new. "I walked out of there going, 'O.K., all right,'" Thorsen says. She proudly wore her healed heels...
...where philanthropy and commerce come together. It's conscious retailing. To be able to realize that if you purchase something you're making a difference in someone's life. And we don't just sell clothing, but also objects, jewelry, furniture, and lifestyle products. I think it's a new paradigm in retail because it's not about a season. The stuff we sell is timeless. It's not really fashion in that sense. It's clothes that feel really good that you can wear anywhere and for the rest of your life. A percentage of all the sales...
...discouraging participation in women’s sports, which they said suffer from a false comparison to male athletics, leading to lack of female athlete role models. Panelist Wendy Healy, general manager of recreation at Harvard, said female participation in athletics is also affected because some women are self-conscious about going to gyms or exercising. The group urged women to fight such a “stigma” and get active. “Recreation should be part of every woman’s life,” said Delany-Smith. Panelist Liz O’Leary, head...
...However, store managers are also conscious of the sentiments behind consigners, the brutal economic downturn that has inadvertently benefitted their business...
...wrote in his diary, “The rudeness of a student must be laid off, and the quiet manly deportment of a gentleman put on, not merely to be worn as a garment but to become by use a part of myself.”THE SOCIALLY-CONSCIOUS AND THE SOCIALITEWhen Theodore Roosevelt arrived at Harvard, it was beginning to look like the school it is today—a place of legacy, tradition, old money and high class. Later in life, the irascible, excitable president would recall that he had been something of an eccentric during his collegiate...