Today’s Illustration: two-tone wayfarer sunglasses ($$ Ray-Ban via My-Wardrobe) Last year V.Ng and I were preparing for a trip to Cali. (We visit often because my brother and his wife work in the wine industry in Napa.  Score!)  We went to Soho with the explicit goal of buying shades.  It was a disaster; I ended up crying because so many sales people were really mean to me (Pretty Woman style – wth!) After five hours of sunglass shopping, an emotional episode and a raw oyster pit-stop we finally bought some. I got wayfarers and V.Ng bought clubmasters (which looked like they were made for him.) Fate must have been against us because about a month later neither of us had them. Continue reading →