Boston Fashion Week

New York, Paris and Milan have spring fashion weeks, in February, well documented by daily articles and slide shows in the New York Times. Boston, being the humble city it is, has a less coordinated fashion week, around the time you can safely take the winter coat to the cleaners without fear of a sub-artic cold snap, ie, last week.
Boston fashion week consists of the Gap putting spring clothes (still too lightweight to actually wear) on clearance and me craving white and linen. I confessed my craving to buy Keds to Mihee and Rashmi and fortunately, they were both more than willing to help reintroduce a trend (I'm taken with the $110 Lacoste fashion sneakers, but I can't bring myself to actually buy them). We planned an outing to DSW shoe warehouse and Filene's. I wrote to my sister (as an aside, the fruit cart was given a sabbatical last week while fresh, hot pretzels were delivered instead!) and she said she herself had been contemplating buying Keds, with the hope they'd be as comfortable as she remembered.
DSW indeed had the Keds we remembered, and our evening shopping trip was soundtracked by familiar '80s pop songs in all the stores we went to, as though willing us on to more and more retro purchases.
In addition to the updated Keds (thicker sole, added lycra), I purchased a pair of sweet gold Easy Spirit pumps. Perfect for going out, especially at $11.00! Rashmi found a similar deal on bedazzled black pumps, and the new Keds, while Mihee held out for the very classic Keds...cut to crossing the street and entering Filene's. Shoe display of multi colored classic Keds endorsed by Mischa Barton (go to keds.com to find out "what Mischa Barton thinks is cool". I'm serious. Ugh.). Mihee gets the attention of the salesman, and less than 10 minutes later we all have our Keds. The shopper's high is in full force, so we head down to the Basement ("We start at the dresses, go to handbags, then check out accessories, then go to the Vault. Any remaining time can be used to look for Automatic Markdown bargains", according to Mihee).
We each found several potential items, but ultimately came away with a green print halter dress for Mihee and a beige linen jacket for me. Rashmi was satisfied with the two pairs of shoes purchase.
We each wore the new Keds this weekend. Rashmi and I have war wounds on the backs of our ankles and Mihee suffered blisters on the soles of her feet. My sister did buy a pair, as well as ankle socks with blue trim to match the blue Keds logo, but a woman ran over her foot with a stroller on the first outing, sullying the pristine white.
Mihee and I rounded out the week by taking advantage of the Gap's sales (t-shirts, jeans and denim jackets) and now have the basics to take the summer by storm!