Guest Blog by Liza Powel O’Brien
We find ourselves in a special time, economically speaking, in which the leftovers from our old lifestyle–the amount of merchandise produced for this season’s projected buying appetite (according to projections made, in most cases, back before the bottom fell out of the industrialized world) far outweighs our new world’s capacity to acquire them. It’s a little, buyer-happy bubble of bargains, where, much as a person hates to see her favorite children’s boutique closing one of their shops, she is more than happy to snap up its baby-fine pointelle cashmere sweaters at a 75% discount. In fact, every item at Flora et Henri is nearly perfect–from the soft ribbed tiny undershirts to the pre-teen-sized cardigans. If certain pundits are right and the current economic disaster will leave us all living in, driving and wearing whatever we have now for the next twenty years, let it all be as classic, well-made and adorable as this. Shop the clearance sale at Flora et Henri!
Note from Tina– Liza blogged from her iPhone for this piece which impressed me to no end. She told me “We moms have to snag our spare time when we can–in this instance, sitting in a theater waiting for the lights to go down, and then finishing up in the cab when I left at intermission because my five-year old wouldn’t go to sleep without me here. Ah, motherhood.”
