Reminder: 2 days left to save 20%!

Off Broadway Boutique has been running a generous promotion for 20% off all orders over $100, which ends on New Year's - so take advantage of it while you still can! To get the discount, use the promotion code OBB72 when you are checking out online. And don't forget we're offering free shipping on all orders!

Winter Wonderland

Hello hello!

We at Off Broadway Boutique have been enjoying our holiday vacation, perhaps a little too much. It's hard to come back to cold and blustery New York. But the holidays aren't over yet, and we are looking forward to the bright lights of New Years Eve! What better way to celebrate it than draping yourself with baubles and silks? This is definitely the time to err on the side of overdressing ... what other day gives you the license to be as outrageously fabulous as you'd like?

We suggest...

a sparkly party dress
a taffeta jacket with flair!

a sparkling rhinestone collar

a pleated black evening gown with trumpet sleeves

Wishing you a wonderful New Year filled with goodness and glamour!

Mini Patent Disco Bag

This purse would make a wonderful stocking stuffer or Hannukah gift for a special lady. If you really want to get into her good graces, buy it in her favorite color...and hide a gift card to her favorite store inside! It comes in black, silver, caramel, green and red.

Baby, it's Cold Outside!

As the temperatures continue to drop, those living in northern climes will appreciate a gift of a stylish cold-weather accessory. Items like scarves, gloves and hats are fail-safe and can be such fun!

Multicolor Blue Ruched Scarf

Black Leather Gloves with Pleated Cuffs

Grey Felt Petal Hat

Holiday Countdown

Every day this week, we will be posting gift ideas. Buy them for your friends and loved ones, or add them to your own list!

Image credit: Martha Stewart

TZIPORAH RETURNS!

Back by popular demand:

Off Broadway Boutique Presents:

THE FABRIC OF MY LIFE

An Evening with Tziporah Salamon, Featuring her One-Woman Show,

A sartorial autobiography in which she uses stories, anecdotes and costume changes to tell the story of her life in clothes.

Please join us for an evening of fashion, fun and shopping at one of New York’s iconic venues for chic and glamorous women! We will be serving wine and cheese, and the evening will conclude with an exciting raffle.

Monday, December 15th at 5:30PM
Off Broadway Boutique
139 W. 72nd St

Free admission,
R.S.V.P. to: boutiqueoffbroadway@verizon.net
http://www.boutiqueoffbroadway.com/

The Fabric of my Life is back by popular demand...see photos and a recap of the event here!

Glamour: Some Food for Thought

"The contrast between what is glamorous now and what was glamorous in the days of Cary Grant and Norma Shearer says much about how American society has changed. Glamour used to present an idealized version of adulthood. Now it presents an idealized version of adolescence. In the old days, glamour was all about unattainability, i.e., fantasy projection. These days, it has become unthinkable that a major Hollywood director might echo Cecil B. DeMille, who instructed Edith Head's department at Paramount to make clothes "that make people gasp when they see them. Don't design anything anybody could possibly buy in a store."

Today glamour is tied to the idea of shopping to maintain the illusion that you are (a) kind of famous, or (b) on your way to being famous, or (c) essentially the same as famous people, because you share the same taste in home furnishings, core values and dog shampoo. Some of the stars with whose dog shampoo brand we may be intimately acquainted don't even appear in the movies, or at least not often. They may appear in TV shows that aren't so much TV shows as a chance to observe celebrities in their natural habitats. Which kind of resembles ours. Mainstream magazines have transformed themselves from facilitators of idol worship to guides of glamour consumption."

Excerpt from The Allure of Illusion, by Carina Chocano, published March 21, 2006 in the Los Angeles Times. Found at Hygge House.

Image credit: Jean Harlow at her vanity, found here.