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...good, the customers are too patronizing (even for Harvard students) and the general atmosphere is much too see-and-be-seen. Those on a tight college budget unwilling to dish out the cash and deal with the attitude should choose to go elsewhere. With its hip reputation and high-end customers, the café will appeal only to those confident fashionistas who are not easily intimidated...
...most Harvard students, the Cambridge store is a bargain shopper’s dream. Snag hot Diesel jeans for $52 and peruse the racks of upscale pants, skirts and blouses (all of which retailed for over $200). Both this and the Newbury store occasionally get shipments of overstock from high-end boutiques, and much of the merchandise still has the labels...
Boston Magazine recently named Dress Rehearsal Boston’s Best Consignment Shop. According to the store’s cashier, Dress Rehearsal is “a little more boutiquified” than the average consignment shop. Instead of only accepting high-end labels, she says, they will “take whatever we think is aesthetically appealing.” A great MaxMara wrap dress is priced at $210, and a cream-colored, cashmere Fendi dress at $300. The store’s strongest point is its friendly service...
...certain uncertainty lurked beneath the chiffon-handkerchief hems of every Daisy Buchanan garden-print dress. It is not just a reflection of a shaky economy that has weakened sales and sent once high-end designers like Isaac Mizrahi to Target to hawk $25 silk shirts. Off the runway, the hand wringing was over the corporatization of fashion. Cliquey social critics complained that the mainstream thrust of fashion was diluting its cool factor. And on the runways, the demands of the shows' sponsors were making for some strange scenarios...
...Sports Grille, Store24 and Siam Garden have all been replaced by newer storefronts for swarms of tourists. We now house four Starbucks, four upscale bars that are just too clean for any self-respecting college student to haunt, an Abercrombie and Fitch, a Gap, a gourmet desserterie and two high-end watch stores (in case you can’t find the Rolex you want at just one of them...