School Shopping

After our filling breakfast at Les Halles, we headed over the the nearby Macy's (the "Biggest Store in the World") to do a little school-clothes-shopping for J. One might ask, "Can a store be too big?" I know now that the answer is, "Absolutely, see e.g. Macy's." This mammoth place encloses all the confusion and overcrowding of a busy suburban shopping mall packed into single store with really old wooden escalators and a floor plan that would confuse a minotaur. Not my favorite Manhattan shopping experience. I'll grant them the big part, though.

So, after fleeing the overwhelming Macy's we headed down to SOHO to pay our respects at my wife's favorite shopping Mecca, J. Crew. The SOHO location has a Crew Cuts section, which is the only bricks-and-mortar retail location we know of. In addition, the trip to SOHO offered the chance to visit Dean & Deluca, but we were disappointed to see that they were not carrying Crumbs cupcakes any longer (at least not today). We had fond memories of a pistachio variety from a previous visit a couple of months earlier.