36)Friday

The Friday after America Day is only for skeleton staff. There were maybe a dozen people on the floor. The highlight - the big boss (at right) and another employee showed up to work wearing the same new dress. It's an embarrassment for any New York fashionista to be caught wearing the same outfit as someone else. It is even worse when you are the boss. And more terrible still when it is discovered that you "slum-shop" (not my words) at H&M.














Here's Brendan, my cubicle mate, refusing to turn around for his official candid portrait.















With nothing to do at the office, we were sent home early. Alana and I met up in Tribeca and headed over to Uniqlo - the Japanese H&M to buy some cheap dress shirts (me) and a Marc Jacobs inspired knock-off (her). We then gorged on $3 sushi and cocktails in the East Village.