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Market Report: How Long Does It Take To Apply a Sequin Face Mask?

Restock your beauty arsenal right now at Duross and Langel. Head to the sweet-smelling Midtown Village bath and body boutique to shop their $3 soap […]

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Covet: The Fisherman Sweater

How to bundle up without losing style cred: Invest in an oversized, textured fisherman sweater (really, the bulky style is totally on-trend this fall). My […]

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Philly’s Ultimate Shopping Event

The key to a fab closet is variety: plenty of styles, brands, textures and silhouettes. But flitting around to the best boutiques—especially when they’re scattered across […]

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Welcome to Shoppist!

Hi there! I’m so happy you’ve found my little slice of Philly Mag’s new, better-than-ever website. I’m Emily Goulet, Philly Mag’s editor of all things […]

City Life

Delaware Man Throws Semen on Wal-Mart Customer

“Because she was hot,” is no excuse for what you’re about to read, boys and girls. Yet that was the purported excuse of this New […]

City Life

One Death, One Illness Prompt Whole Foods Cheese Recall

Attention Whole Foods shoppers: That cheese in your basket might be home to a lovely little pathogen known as Listeria monocytogenes. The cheese in question, […]

City Life

West Chester-Based QVC Pressing “Pause” on Paula Deen

Several high-profile companies have already cut ties with the food world’s latest bete noire, Paula Deen. (No pun intended.) West Chester-based home shopping giant QVC, […]

City Life

Internet Sales Tax Won’t Stop Me From Online Shopping

The Marketplace Fairness Act is a bill that aims to “level the playing field” between online retailers and brick and mortar stores. Most online retailers […]

City Life

Gay Wedding Anniversary Gift Ideas

My 20th wedding anniversary is June 5th. According to Emily Post, china is the suggested gift. Since my wife and I rarely entertain, we wouldn’t […]

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Combine McDonald’s and Fashion, and This Is the Result

The last thing a woman thinks as she’s whipping out the credit card for new threads is “Can I have fries with that?” But that […]

City Life

“Nordstrom Fetishists” Have Wrong Ideas About Center City Shopping

No sooner did HughE Dillon post this on Philly Chit Chat than I heard hearts racing from the Delaware to the Schuylkill: “I hear that the […]

City Life

The Price of Cheap Clothes

For years I’ve practiced a little ritual when I shop for clothes. I got it from watching my father, who, like his father before him, […]

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Wall Street Journal: Male Golfers Want Clothes That Won’t Embarrass Them

Thank God for weekends. If there weren’t weekends, my house would never get clean. I’d never get to the post office. And I’d never get […]

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The Brooklyn Flea Is Coming to Philadelphia

If you’ve spent any time in New York City in recent years, you should know that the five-year-old Brooklyn Flea is one of the coolest […]

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3 Million Men Are Just Like Buzz Bissinger

Buzz Bissinger, besides his bipolarity, self-loathing, and mid-life crisisdom, seems also to have a bad case of Compulsive Buying Syndrome. It’s a real thing, says […]