shame is so in this season

just between you and me, smashed jacket

you shouldn't run for the subway. well that's what they tell you anyway. but everyone does it. if you're within a hop, skip or a jump, you do so, making sure you get at least one limb in the way of the closing doors. if you're lucky, someone nice will be standing just inside the doors and will help pry them open so you can get in. if you're unlucky, then you struggle, clawing at the rubber and making a ruckus so that the conductor will feel sorry for you and reopen the doors. and if you're really unlucky, your new white fall jacket gets covered with subway grime. and that's exactly what happened to this very unfortunately fashionable woman this morning on the uptown n. dior glasses, chloe padlock bag, citizen jeans, marc jacobs flats, and now soiled double breasted white trench with nautical gold buttons. really quite tragic indeed.

posted by erica @ 11:44 AM