Preppy Wedding Wrap

A preppy reader wrote yesterday with this dilemma:


I stumbled upon your blog while looking around for a light blue (or light pink) cashmere wrap for my wedding day.

The colors for my wedding are pink and green and when I saw your blog, I thought I found nirvana. I was thinking about the blue to complete the whole "something old, something new...", but could go with pink, too.

The one wrap I saw in The Knot was from White + Warren and looks lovely, but I was wondering if there were other places for me to look and was hoping for some advice.

This is a great question for most brides. Whether you want to find a wrap for yourself or your lovely bridesmaids, buying a �pashmina� online can be a risky move. There are too many �import� sites that leave you feeling great about the price of the product, but less confident about what it will look like when it arrives at your front door.

I suggest sticking to websites that you know and trust.

Anthropologie has a great silk crocheted shrug that would look great for a non-traditional bride.

Last but not least, there is a site called Rocky Mountain Emporium that specializes in pashminas. They have a great color selection and guess what? You can monogram your pashminas. And you know how much I love a monogram.

For my own wedding, I made the trip to Canal Street in NYC to pick out some lovely ivory colored wraps for my bridesmaids. They were significantly less, but I needed to view and feel the fabric in person!

Happy Shopping and Good Luck on your Wedding!

Furman signs up

Jason Furman testifies for the Senate Budget Committee on the long-term fiscal gap and, in the process, becomes a member of the Pigou Club:

A third promising strategy for tax reform is to rely more on taxes that correct distortions and improve the functioning of markets. For example, as N. Gregory Mankiw has argued, "A tax on carbon is the best way to deal with global warming." There are legitimate concerns that such a tax, by itself, would be regressive and disproportionately affect low- and moderate-income families. These concerns, however, could and should be addressed by combining a carbon tax with other tax cuts that compensate low- and moderate-income families. Or, alternatively, a carbon tax reform could be combined with tax cuts in such a manner that it was both revenue neutral and distribution neutral, although in this case it would not have the benefit of reducing the long-run deficit and thus would not reduce the need for other revenue increases or benefit cuts.

Lindsey on Unions

Larry Lindsey is concerned that the new Congress will kowtow to unions.

NEW YORK - on the street, noho and soho, 02/01/07

Corruption Travels

A striking fact from a new study:

There is a strong correlation between illegal parking [of foreign diplomats in the United States] and existing measures of home country corruption. Even when stationed thousands of miles away, diplomats behave in a manner highly reminiscent of officials in the home country.

Source: Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel.

SAO PAULO - on the street, center, 01/31/07

Goolsbee on the Penny

Austan Goolsbee gives us his two cents on the penny. Here are my two cents.