Attention All Walk of Shame Shoppers

The list I wish I had a year ago: nichellenewsletter.typepad.com

Last spring I was doing a lot of sleeping at a certain boy's apartment who lived at least an hour from my home. Sometimes I would remember to bring a change of clothes to work with me. Sometimes I would forget. This led to interesting wardrobe quick fixes in the morning, in an effort to appear as though I was not going to work in the same outfit two days in a row. It sort of kind of fooled my co-workers--but not really.

Once I discovered that the Banana Republic in Grand Central opened at 8:00am I thought all of my problems were solved.

I began to treat Banana Republic as my closet and the Grand Central bathrooms as a dressing room. I spent alot--I don't even want to think about the exact figure--of money on clothes I would never, ever have bought if I had had more than five minutes to make a selection and more than one store in which to make that selection.

If someone had handed me a list like this one, nichellenewsletter.typepad.com, of stores open early enough for "working girls" as it were, things might have been different. Maybe I would have accumulated clothes I would actually wear again, as opposed to a vast collection of over-priced preppy clothes that now sit bundled in the corner of my closet.

I hope at least one slutty New York girl reads this, and is better dressed for it.