How the Strategist's staff of online shopping experts choose what to buy for themselves and their families
Photo: Courtesy of the vendors If you follow our biweekly feature Your Shopping Cart, you know that we have some eerily good intel on what you all are buying. Which led us to think that, as Strategist editors, we could turn the tables and highlight all the things we’ve been buying for ourselves. As you’ll notice, it’s both a blessing and a curse to be a Strategist editor; we’re picky, but sometimes we just have to get on with it. Below, what we all bought in November.
$300 at REI Buy Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes $12 Molly Young, New York’s literary critic sold me on the new English translation of this French novel in her book-recommendation column and newsletter, Read Like the Wind. As Molly says, “The book revolves around an ensemble of horrible people … watching their privilege evaporate in real time and reacting with the full range of human ugliness.” So far, she’s spot-on and I’m really enjoying it.
Request price at Tourists Buy Percival Lafer Brazilian Leather Lounge Chair and Ottoman At one of said great antique stores, I walked away with an extremely, almost insanely well-priced Percival Lafer lounge chair, and the purchase gave me such an intense buyer’s high that I found myself whistling for the rest of the day.
$68 at Sephora Buy Jessica Silvester, freelance editor Aritzia Tna The Mega Puff Meme $293 Oh my God, this coat. It’s like I manifested it. I wished for an enormous down coat that didn’t look like every other down coat — then this suddenly popped up in my Twitter feed. In fact, I’d been wanting to buy an Aritzia jacket for a couple of years now, ever since my obsessive-shopper friend said that theirs are the warmest — even warmer than her Moncler. But none of them excited me. Until now.
$20 at Amazon Buy $20 at Amazon Buy The North Face Deptford Down Jacket This was a birthday gift for my husband. For years, he’s been wearing a kids’ XL Nuptse that an old friend’s mom won at a church raffle, so it was time to upgrade. Like the Nuptse, it’s got that classic North Face puffer look. But this coat is slightly longer, keeping more of his torso warm, and it has a nice, actually usable hood.
$153 at Opening Ceremony Buy with code: THX30 Uniqlo Women’s Ultra Light Down Coccoon Jacket $60 After writing about affordable puffers, I started wanting one myself, and went to Uniqlo probably four times before deciding on this black one. I’ve worn it almost every day since. It’ll sound obvious to anyone who wears a down coat, but I’m still surprised by how warm it is despite being lightweight.
$38 at Net-a-Porter Buy Lauren Ro, writer Thule Urban Glide 2 $399 I feel so ashamed, that, I, a Strategist writer, pulled the rookiest move by purchasing a big-ticket item mere weeks before Black Friday without even the thought of it possibly going on sale crossing my mind. If I may explain myself: I was saving a Buy Buy Baby’s 20 percent coupon for the stroller. But, of course, as these things go, it turned out that it wasn’t eligible for the discount.
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