From The Old Days

Remember last week, when I talked about the days when I would spend Saturday mornings at thrift shops with my best friend and return home with some truly spectacular finds…and how sometimes it’s nice to hold onto those finds, even when they don’t feel like they quite work in your life for a little while?

Here’s another example.

This coat – a full-length cashmere Harve Bernard – was $12 when I found it (smushed into a coat rack along the wall on the second floor of the Salvation Army) in 1998. I...