I don't go to Macy's often because the one closest to me is the 34th St/Herald Sq. one and that place is just a nightmare due to the tourist clogging, but I should check it out some time when it's worth it like during a big sale. This is why Lord & Taylor is my go to place. Although it's located on 5th Ave. the…

Thank you for this recommendation. I went there today and spent nearly 3 hours at Lee Lee's working with Lisa. It really was a huge learning experience because she mostly (right now anyway) carries dresses and blouse/skirts and I'm normally not much of a dress wearer. I ended up buying two dresses a some under…

Just a few minutes ago my husband mapped the walk from the station to The Westchester mall. It's a mile. Not bad. Hmmm...it doesn't sound like a bad idea. IRC, there's a big Target near by and I do love Target. AND there's a Legal Seafood! Hell, for Legal Seafood alone I'd go.

Bloomingdales is on my commute, so that's an easy stop-in. I haven't really checked out their plus sized department besides looking for wedding guest appropriate dresses. I should stop in there. Yeah, I should just go up to White Plains and I could do a two-fer and visit the family while I'm there.

Thank you! Simply Be looks awesome. I need blazers and preferably ones that don't have much in the way of shoulder pads - I'm very large boned and have linebacker-like shoulders.

Yeah, it's going to take a sojourn to Jersey or White Plains. Ugh! I hate shopping.

Hell yes. I'm between a 16/18 (depending on cut). Lately, I've either been scrounging through the sales racks at L&T for pants that fit half way decently or I've been ordering size 16 or 18 pants from The Loft. For tops I still can shop in a lot of "straight-sized" stores.

Except for the Nordstrom's Rack in Union Sq., there's no Nordstorm's within easy distance of me. Sadly, the Nordstrom's Rack didn't have much in way of plus-sized clothing.

I've had the same experience. I don't know how many famous people I've seen or sort of met over the years (lived in NYC and Southern CA), but there is only one celebrity who blew me away with his finesse and impeccable style and no one would ever guess who. It was Martin Short. He was a fellow audience member at a…

I love you Tim Gunn, but you just hit a very sensitive and specific real-life situation that I'm dreading. I need to go to that 8th floor at Lord & Taylor within the next week or two to buy work clothes. At my very corporate job I get away with slacks and dressy camisoles with a cardigan or some other kind of…

"And who is Meredith going to be close to now? Kepner? Please."

I do follow Anna (one of the best celebrity tweeter, imo), but I missed that tweet. With exception to Anna and a couple of others, I'm not happy with the movie's casting. Oh well...we will always have the 1987 live original cast recording. Sondheim is amazing for so many things, but the fact that he allowed a…

"Related: I once heard from someone who knows someone who knows (LOL) that Meryl Streep does not like Julia Roberts, so that is a pretty good indication of things."

I'm not sure where you live, but I can't help wondering if you attended my church in NYC. We had some bizarre services like that as well. There was one I should have walked out on but I was sitting near the front and too shy to just get up and go.

Oh, I'm very well aware of this. As a UU, I've very proud of the church and its history. I was just pointing out that, like any organized religions with multiple congregations, each congregation due to its make-up is unique. UUs can and have attracted some fringe groups and unfortunately the fringe group we had was…

Yup, I actually just LOLed to myself in my living room. My church was definitely heading in that direction. I remember we had A LOT of food parameters to cover when we put together a Seder one year.

Heh! That he is. I'm dumbfounded. I've heard a lot of criticisms about some of the structural issues of the second act (Sunday in the Park with George suffers from that as well) but that's not all Sondheim - Lapine deserves just as much criticism. Anyway, I have no idea what's wrong with the opening. I think it's…

Oh god, those attack vegans are exactly what drove to leave. There was a group of vegan PETA folks who found a home in our church because no one else would take them/cater to their agenda. The final straw was when they stealthily snuck over to the coat racks during service and shoved mutilated animal literature into…

Very interesting. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.

This is kind of a silly question, but if there is a group prayer at your mosque or elsewhere and a woman or women are not there, does everyone else assume it's because that woman/women are on their periods? Is every woman's cycle then somewhat known to everyone else?