April 11
...serving up your daily dish.
Not sure if the public outcry will reach Paper Boutique status, but D. Marie Home is no more. The store is leaving Montclair because the owner of the space can get a lot more cash by renting it to someone else (a.k.a., a place that sells $500 belts, or something similar).
For a last look, and where to find some bargains remaining to dress your home, click here.
April 11, 2005 in Comings and Goings | Permalink
I will miss D. Marie--but I think they found a new space on Bloomfield Ave. in Caldwell. Well worth the trip out of Baristaville.
Posted by: GRme | Apr 12, 2005 7:27:16 AM
The Montclair mentality never ceases to amaze me. When a tenant moves out because a landlord can get a "$500 belt" store instead, it's some dark, evil, depraved act that everyone shakes their head at in disgust. Yet the same people will of course be showing off their $500 belts at Friday night's benefit at the Junior League. When someone flips a house or two and makes a nice profit, that it somehow a depraved, selfish act, somehow evincing some pathetic character flaw. Yet all anyone talks about in Montclair is how much their house has gone up in value, how much the house at the end of the street sold for, what the house around the block just sold for, etc. Everyone slams Bush for (among other things his environmental record), yet everytime I drive into Whole Foods its basically nothing but identical SUV's measuring 15 feet long and getting the worst gas mileage on the planet. I guess it's a difficult balance between living the good life yet always tyring to feign deep seated concern about the evils of money, capatalism, etc.
Posted by: you_gotta_believe | Apr 12, 2005 9:15:47 AM
Well said directly above, very well said. (But of course I would say that.) The real outrage, of course, may be how one earns enough to afford $500 belts, more than the relatively harmless sporting of them amongst others who can equally well afford them. Question, however: since there's a Junior League, is there also something like a "Senior League?" (As opposted to the NL vs. the AL, I mean.)
Posted by: cathar | Apr 12, 2005 9:52:21 AM
Hello? I don't belong to the Junior League, and I don't own a $500 outfit, let alone a $500 belt. And not everybody who shops at Whole Foods drives an SUV. Stop painting everything with such a broad brush. You're all mixed up.
Posted by: latebloomer | Apr 12, 2005 9:54:22 AM
fine fine fine just so long as we all have enough money for Pet Chiropracty!
Posted by: Right of Center | Apr 12, 2005 11:45:07 AM
Since I know some of the fine upstanding ladies of the Junior League, I'd just like to say that they are almost certainly not those who are complaining about stores like these being closed. They seem more improvement-minded than preservation-minded.
I can't be certain, however, because at the last event I attended in one of the mansions on the hill, we men talked about the prospects for the bond market whilst the actual members kibitzed among themselves. When questioned about said kibitzing after the soiree, my wife unleashed a bewildering verbal description of a political interdependency matrix that must rival those within the major arms of the government.
Streetside evidence suggests, though, that they are the ones driving the SUVs.
Posted by: Lex | Apr 12, 2005 12:44:49 PM
