Happening Fashion

This is one of the many rambling wholesale outlets in the Garment District with their questionable garish offerings in the window and racks of samples out on the pavement for $ 25.
But this one has great leather coats, jackets, dresses. And surprise, surprise, if you walk in the laid back dude patrolling the racks of fur leather etc will sell you the odd one-​off wholesale. I suspect that if you’ve made the effort to come all the way to NYC he might as well.
Anti-​fur people stop reading here…
I’m not really a fur person — I tend to wear fake fluff. But I picked up an amazing Jean Harlow like rabbit fur stole for $ 40. It was made from the offcuts of fur I suspect, it has a kind of ‘bobbly’ texture.
Rabid vegans stop reading here…
I have to say, nothing warms like fur. I bought it for a friend’s grandmother to sit around in her armchair while the snow rages outside, reading a book without having to done a giant sweater or a burdensome blanket (which never seems to say closed in FRONT of you let’s face it). It works toasty-​fantastic. She roundly rejected it because of the chocolate brown color, said it made her feel old. And that a rabbit died making it. But proceeded to happily eat turkey, ham, beef and whatever at the Christmas buffet. Go figure. So I’m wearing it.
I also bought a killer turtleneck dress for $ 20 («retails for $ 69») — you can see if you scroll down to the 9^th shot on my blog post
or wait, I posted it as the photo for this entry. Might as well, the storefront isn’t anything to write home about …
I really like poking around the Garment District! It’s just the threads, without the marketing hype. You can even hear the store attendant’s boss yelling at him and down the phone and not caring who knows it like some Joe Pesci movie. Hey, this is New York!