THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2020 N AStaging live-streamed, small-cast
dramas, the Old Vic theater in
London has sold 30,000 tickets to
people in 73 countries.
It’s Empty of Patrons, But Old Vic Has ‘Heat’C
In Silicon Valley, the garage has a
mythical aura. In the 1930s, Bill
Hewlett and David Packard created
Hewlett-Packard in one. In the
1990s, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
developed Google in another.
When Tech Start-Ups Go Back to the GarageB
In France, laïcité is the principle of
strict secularism that separates the
state from religion.
A Teacher, His Killer and Challenges
To France’s Assimilation PolicyA
In China, around five million people
earn less than 92 cents a day, down
from nearly 56 million five years ago.
‘We Couldn’t Be Poorer’: Pandemic Hinders
China’s Antipoverty EffortsAThe classroom app Seesaw,
employed as a home learning tool, is
now used in more than
three-quarters of American schools.
Upended by the Pandemic, Classroom App Takes
FlightB- The portfolio of the private
equity-backed company Inspire
Brands includes Arby’s, Buffalo Wild
Wings, Sonic and Jimmy John’s.
Dunkin’ Brands Is in Talks to Sell
Itself and Go PrivateB
Only one Black American player,
Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles
Dodgers, is playing in this year’s
World Series.
Black Players’ Road to Majors
Always Has GuideD
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AURÉLIA DURAND“There’s sadness when a worshiping space changes, but this
is a whole different kind of sanctuary.”
THE REV. CINDY BRIGGS-BIONDI,the former pastor at St. Paul United Methodist Church in South
Charleston, W. Va., on how the church building is now a cafe that also helps women in recovery from the
opioid crisis.Quote of the Day
NEW SPIRITS RISE IN OLD,
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R.I.P., G.O.P.
Sunday’s most read article was this editorial by The Times’s
editorial board, which stated that the Republican Party’s
dissolution under President Trump is bad for American de-
mocracy. “A healthy political system needs robust, competing
parties to give citizens a choice of ideological, governing and
policy visions,” the board said. “Today’s G.O.P. does not come
close to serving this function.”
4 Pence Aides Test Positive for the Coronavirus
Another widely read article Sunday was the report that top
aides to Vice President Mike Pence, including his chief of
staff, had tested positive in the past few days and that the
White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, had sought to
keep news of the outbreak from becoming public.
Rays Stun the Dodgers With a Chaotic Walk-Off Win
In Game 4
“Saturday’s game gave this World Series its first white-knuck-
led, seesawing contest, and that was true even before it ended
with the most improbable of comebacks in the most chaotic of
fashions,” wrote James Wagner about Tampa Bay’s 8-7 win.
Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet
In a landmark antitrust complaint, the Justice Department is
targeting a secretive partnership that is worth billions of
dollars to both Apple and Google, homing in on the alliance as
an example of what prosecutors say are the company’s illegal
tactics to choke off competition.
Pope Francis Appoints First African-American Cardinal
Wilton Gregory, a Chicago native and the archbishop of Wash-
ington, was among 13 new cardinals named on Sunday.
Lee Kun-hee, Who Built Samsung Into a Global Giant,
Dies at 78
Under Mr. Lee, Samsung became a titan in smartphones,
televisions and computer chips. He was South Korea’s richest
man, but he was also twice convicted for white-collar crimes.
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I like to wear elegant comfortable clothes. Things that make me feel confident.
I often think that I am approaching buying clothes the wrong way. Instead of
making a really good investment every year, I tend to buy things on sale that
are so-so. I’d rather pare down and invest! Say I wanted to focus on one special
piece, each year, over the next five years. What would they be, the item and the designer?
JANE, BOSTON
Way back in the old woolly
days of 2014, I gave a talk at
the Copenhagen Fashion Sum-
mit about the fact that I be-
lieved “sustainable fashion” was an oxy-
moron, like jumbo shrimp or down escala-
tor, because “fashion” is predicated on
constant change, and “sustainability” is,
well, not.
On the other hand, a “sustainable ward-
robe” was something we could all aspire to
build: one full of carefully selected pieces
that last over time. Especially if we take
care of them.
That’s what you are talking about, and I
am all for it. It is the single easiest way for
each of us to tackle the glut-of-stuff prob-
lem. But it also requires a change of mind-
set when it comes to how we think about
buying our clothes. We have to contain our
knee-jerk reaction to sales (Oh! It’s a good
deal! Buy it!) and be really deliberate
about what we choose. That means think-
ing about:
■Fabric and construction
■What problem a garment solves in an
existing wardrobe
■Amortization of price
■And, this is key, do you really love it?
Don’t freak out about considering some-
thing that might seem beyond your budg-
et. If you wear it regularly over years, and
don’t buy a copycat garment, the cost per
wear goes way down. According to the
Sustainable Apparel Coalition, once a
garment had been in circulation for 10
years, it writes its eco-impact down to
zero. In other words: If you buy some-
thing, even if it is expensive, and it be-
comes a basic building block of what you
wear, then it is absolutely worth it both
economically and environmentally.
I have been dreaming of a Loewe trench
designed by Jonathan Anderson for at
least three years. It’s not the “classic”
version — it looks more like a ball gown/
trench hybrid — and thus it might seem
frivolous to buy. But every time I see it, it
makes me happy, so I know that when I
manage to save the money to buy it (if I
ever do), I will wear it over and over
again. In the meantime, I am making do
with my old raincoat. I know buying a
substitute that I don’t like as much will
mean it just sits there unworn, obviating
any savings I might have made and turn-
ing even the smaller expense into waste.
Given how personal budgets are, it’s
impossible to recommend specific branded
items to buy, but there are certain general
guidelines for garments that can be essen-
tially mixed and matched and re-worn for
decades. These would include: a great
trouser suit that can be disaggregated, a
little black dress, a trench, a wool coat,
leather trousers, a fantastic print blazer
and a white shirt. Within those parameters
a whole universe of possibilities lies.
Every week in the Open Thread newsletter — a
look from across The Times at the forces that
shape the dress codes we share — The Times’s
chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, answers a
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week’s batch of micro-nonfiction includes tales about finding a
touch of love through milk and opening one’s eyes to new
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Fifty-ninth Street subway platform. 6 p.m. The uptown train
arrives. One car stops in front of me, another in front of him.
Our stares are interrupted as we board the crowded train. He
races closer to me, bumping into a mother holding a baby. He
comforts the baby from crying, then keeps staring at me until
my 77th Street stop. I get off. He holds his foot in the door to
see if I’ll turn around. When I do, he jumps off. Forty-two
years later, and married, we still look at each other with the
same intensity. Mark Wolk
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