Blue Blood, Blue Steel

Dear New York Times:
  Sometimes, I think you write incendiary articles for kicks and giggles.  I understand that I'm not your demographic, but seriously?  Seriously?  (Making me talk as if I'm in Grey's Anatomy circa 2006, that's another sin to add to your long list.)  The piece today started with a fair disclaimer, "Although we didn't work with a budget, we were strict with our choices; each piece had to be worth the money, as well as be age-appropriate."  Sensible enough.  This is, after all, the Fashion & Styles column.  Too bad it soon disintegrated, with one shopper confiding "To be honest, even though I say I would buy a T-shirt from Topshop, I'd prefer to buy one from James Perse" for about $80.  One boutique yielded "surprisingly affordable" pieces, like a $450 silk jumpsuit (WTH on all counts).  And finally, piece de resistance, the characterization of a store where most pieces they chose (except for a couple) were under $1500 as "reasonably kind to the purse."  If I spent $1500 on a shirt I'd have to eat it.  Then throw it up so I can eat it again and again for the next three months.  You're lucky that I only get my news from the liberal media (especially since that article in The Nation told me that the WSJ has lost its soul) or I'd leave you.  I would, too, but come September, I'll start my tenure as a member of the liberal elite, what else am I supposed to do?

Sincerely,

Derelicte