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June 27, 2005
Bourgeois Chills
I attribute my eight degree temperature comfort range to my childhood proximity to the equator. While this has had the benefit of providing me with a useful excuse for slipping under my husband's arm when we're out together, it also means that a light sweater of some sort is a third wheel on all theatre or restaurant excursions. Retail stores, too, have always been a place of climate peril. In some stores, a brisk pass-through is about all my relatively meager personal insulation system will allow before my teeth start chattering.
Salespeople do not tend to respond well to chattering customers.
And so I am deeply grateful to the New York Times for taking it upon themselves to a conduct a scientific survey of retail stores across the city and providing us all with this data-supported axiom: the more expensive the store, the colder the air conditioning. The truth is, as follows:
Bergdorf Goodman, 68.3 degrees; Bloomingdale's, 70.8; Macy's 73.1; Club Monaco, 74.0; the Original Levi's Store, 76.8; Old Navy 80.3.
A 68.3 degree thermostat in the summer would demand that I venture in only with the protection of a heavy sweater, and it seems reasonable to guess that salespeople in exclusive stores also do not exude particular munificence towards customers sporting thick wool sweaters in the summer. So it's really no wonder, then, that you'll find me poking through a thrift store. I'm simply avoiding hypothermia.
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