David Sedaris recounts a week spent shamelessly purchasing clothes: “Shopping with my sisters in Japan was like being in a pie-eating contest, only with stuff.”
And it’s not just big-ticket items. She and I were at O’Hare Airport one afternoon, and passed a place that sold nuts. “Why don’t you get some for Bob?” I asked. “They would be a nice little something to bring him as a gift.”
My sisters and I refuse to feel bad about shopping. And why should we? Obviously we have some hole we’re trying to fill, but doesn’t everyone? And isn’t filling it with berets the size of toilet-seat covers, if not more practical, then at least“Besides,” Amy said at the dinner table, on the first night of our vacation, “it’s not like everything we buy is for ourselves. I’ll be getting birthday presents for friends, and all sorts of things for my godson.
“I would have got it if you hadn’t,” Amy, my enabler, said, as I left with the painting in a recently purchased, very pricey tote bag that had cowboys on it. The dress culottes weren’t as expensive as the pants that come up to my nipples, but, still, they were extravagant. I buy a lot of what I think of as “at-home clothes,” things I’d wear at my desk, or when lying around at night after a bath, but never outdoors. These troubling, Jiminy Cricket-style trousers, for instance, I bought at another of my favorite Japanese stores, 45rpm.
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