Ray Harris silent auction Tuesday and Wednesday at Upstairs on 7th!

Hope everyone had a good Easter and Passover. It is always nice when the holidays overlap.

Every once in a while, ok once in ten years, we get some pieces from
Ray Harris that were shipped to the US for another store and the store does not take them for whatever reason.  Ok, usually it is because they cannot afford them from the time that they were ordered to the time they arrived.  But we are the lucky recipients of just such an order!  So I thought we could have some fun with it and at the same time save you hundreds of dollars on some Ray Harris pieces.

This Tuesday and Wednesday you can come to the store and BID on the clothes from this other store’s order.  On Wednesday at 5 we will stop the bidding and award the piece to the highest bidder. We will let you know by email and you can either come back for it or we will send it out with free shipping.  Unfortunately for our out of towners, this is only for in town people as we don’t have time to do all the pictures it would require.  There are some fabulous pieces including jackets, coats, ruffled cotton pieces and of course dresses.  They come in red, black, purple, white and gray.  The least expensive piece would have sold for $520 and the most expensive piece would have been $825.  We will start the bids at $385 and go from there. I think it will really be fun and you can maybe get a coat or jacket to go over another piece you already have at a bargain price.  Here are three items up for bid just so you can see how great the pieces are.  The short red jacket can be worn as a shawl upside down. The long red coat is very dramatic with a stand up collar but you can also wear it upside down so it is shorter. The purple jacket is one of my favorite pieces Ray makes.

We have two Ray Harris collar scarves left in red and fuchia so it is not too late to get one. Ray is already making more for us in colors he has bits of so we are getting some new amazing colors that may no longer be available. If you were here last week, except for my red dot dress I wore to the Kusama exhibit, you could have seen me in my blue collar scarf that I did wear every single day as I said I would.  By Saturday Katy was a little sick of it!  Of course I was not and still wore it Saturday night! Talk about feeling like a princess, these scarves do the trick.

Thanks to one of my original customers when Upstairs on 7th was really upstairs on 7th Street, Paulette Morgan, for taking me to the Kusama exhibit at the Hirschhorn.  I HAD to wear my polka dot Creatures of Comfort dress. Thank you SO MUCH Paulette!! (Back story: Paulette and I went to the Alexander McQueen exhibit in NYC and we took the 6:00 AM train at Paulette’s insistence and I complained all the way there.  However, we went into the exhibit right when the Met opened and when we came out there was a FOUR HOUR wait!  So then I just shut my mouth and thanked her!)

This last room in the Kusama exhibit is the most fun because you can stay as long as you like and everything is dotted to bits!  It is very fun to add in your very own dots too.  How cute is this dress? We still have three left.

We have a date for the Restaurant Nora dinner: Thursday, June 15th but we do not have enough people as of yet.  Please let me know if you want to attend and feel free to invite your friends, family, partners, kids, etc as we have room for 50 and so far we only have about 20 people.  Since this was announced lots of companies are booking the room so I have to let them know for sure. I think it would be so much fun to say goodbye to this iconic restaurant together.  Besides, I have never been in the party room! (Why I wasn’t invited to Valerie Jarrett’s birthday party with the President and First Lady there I will never know!)

You can also still RSVP to Off the Rack: Conversations at Upstairs on 7th with Julia Whiston, Executive Director of the White House Correspondents’ Association on May 10th as I like to have a few more as we get cancellations that day this being Washington DC where meetings go long.  It is dinner at 6 and the conversation starts at 7:00.  These evenings are so much fun and our interviewer Amy Henderson really does her research so it is always so interesting. Julia is very fun and I am sure she will have lots of stories from the dinner that will occur on April 29th.