We love little secondhand shops. Big secondhand shops? Big love. So Juliet’s Clothing — with its two-and-a-half-times larger space two doors down from its old Auburn storefront on Center Street — is gigantic LOVE. Yes, all in caps. We last visited Juliet’s maybe a couple of years ago. It was cute then, and we remember […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Red, white and cool
There are few holidays as unabashedly simple as the Fourth of July. You don’t have to worry about the food safety implications of stuffing or not stuffing a turkey. There’s no making a list and checking it twice. No one is judging you on your costume, if you decide to wear a costume, which, hey, […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Heels for fleeing dinos
When “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” opens next week, all eyes will be on the special effects, yes, and the dinosaurs, the teeth, the drool, the chompiness, but they’ll also be on the heels. Bryce Dallas Howard’s character spent all of “Jurassic World” three years ago running in super high heels from dinosaurs and, despite critics deriding […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: When I’m wrong and that’s good news.
So there are times in life when Bag Lady is wrong. I mean, not many*, but it happens, and it happened this week. *Not true. Totally many. For what feels like a while now, I’ve driven by Barnies Wholesale Outlet at the corner of Sabattus and Pond streets in Lewiston and owing to the similar […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Nice day for a royal wedding
We started this week with a challenge: What Maine-made wedding gifts could we buy the couple who has everything? And what could we get under $20, under $100, under $1,000, and for an unlimited amount of money? Because it’s not often we get to shop with an imaginary-unlimited budget, and it’s highly unlikely anyone else […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: For the birds
Shopping Siren saw her first robin of the season the other day. There was jumping for joy. Literally. Jumping and shouting and pointing and a bit of weeping because, thank Mother Nature, robins mean winter is finally, finally ending. The robin, for its part, was startled and quickly flew away, likely to find a yard […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Legs for miles
Last week, Bag Lady asked a fabulously stylish friend’s advice on how to finish off an outfit for an upcoming formal event. Black dress and black heels, so plain black nylons, right? The friend’s reply over email read like a decorative dagger through the heart. “Black nylons and/or tights could tilt toward Italian grandma territory.” […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: We wanna be like RBG
With some trends, you welcome their return with a warm embrace. How have you been? How are the kids? Did that tennis elbow ever clear up? Others score only a curt nod. I remember you, feathered alligator clip/wedge flip-flop/fringed Old Orchard Beach belly shirt, and no, we won’t be friends again. Inspired by Ruth Bader […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Bring on the artisanal toilet seats
Thanks to Prince Charles and one particularly peppy cherry menthol, this week Bag Lady was initially torn between shopping for toilet seats or cough drops. Then, she wanted to shop for all things love after hearing that her favorite, made-over fella on the new season of “Queer Eye” got engaged to the sweetheart he was trying to […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Nailed it
To describe Bag Lady’s nails as the nails of a beet farmer is to insult the noble beet-growing profession. Her nails’ utter haphazard raggedness is only highlighted by the fact that it seems like every other woman she encounters on a daily basis has the most fantastic, bedazzled, polished, tipped-to-perfection hands ever. Shopping Siren included. […]