\nRay Harris that were shipped to the US for another store and the store does not take them for whatever reason.\u00a0 Ok, usually it is because they cannot afford them from the time that they were ordered to the time they arrived.\u00a0 But we are the lucky recipients of just such an order!\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
This Tuesday<\/span><\/span> and Wednesday<\/strong> you can come to the store and BID on the clothes from this other store’s order.\u00a0 On Wednesday<\/span><\/span> 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 There are some fabulous pieces including jackets, coats, ruffled cotton pieces and of course dresses.\u00a0 They come in red, black, purple, white and gray.\u00a0 The least expensive piece would have sold for $520 and the most expensive piece would have been $825.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Here are three items up for bid just so you can see how great the pieces are.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 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<\/span><\/span> train at Paulette’s insistence and I complained all the way there.\u00a0 However, we went into the exhibit right when the Met opened and when we came out there was a FOUR HOUR wait!\u00a0 So then I just shut my mouth and thanked her!)<\/p>\n We have a date for the Restaurant Nora dinner: Thursday, June 15th<\/span><\/span> but we do not have enough people as of yet.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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!)<\/p>\n 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<\/span><\/span> as I like to have a few more as we get cancellations that day this being Washington DC where meetings go long.\u00a0 It is dinner at 6 and the conversation starts at 7:00<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 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<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n Believe it or not we are still getting in new spring\/summer merchandise so even if you were here last week you STILL have missed a few things!<\/p>\n Hope to see you at the first ever (and probably last) Ray Harris auction!!<\/p>\n Ricki and Katy<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.\u00a0 Ok, usually it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/ci4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/oB2FFA_H9NK-1Q3w8_NkvRI1tNKlxqRM15BT0-JdXMjuC9fqg8OM5sy2RHLs85jP8NmA99UJQKBFqBMh5eVi-WXGFS7SE8htoKnVIcHZP7Zb27tzL4N7llHMi4CsP9J5EtlHGFbHEYJz1-c=s0-d-e1-ft#http:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/d5d2b5ff001\/ccca60a2-7213-46d7-9b3d-c4acf900d51b.jpg\")
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\nWe 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.\u00a0 By Saturday<\/span><\/span> Katy was a little sick of it!\u00a0 Of course I was not and still wore it Saturday<\/span><\/span> night! Talk about feeling like a princess, these scarves do the trick.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/ci4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/EYqXfyykmntGkIAUYFtIkQtPmAr2EETGme5eQbp2yRjpYL21I2CKhfOeVTRL288I6kblD8wXkl6ryOUgKsUJWYyfZL_6CFZ49DqWISlsCgEMQcUIqKemcwr729sgy1XG2EZjtptluFwfo6g=s0-d-e1-ft#http:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/d5d2b5ff001\/b4f8242d-3cd6-4841-942c-73a40cf239e4.jpg\")
\nThis 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!\u00a0 It is very fun to add in your very own dots too.\u00a0 How cute is this dress? We still have three left.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/78gfO_bmPt7-RyEeVfhgYMbNpbndQ0_Rbw7MyGxdbgMD1bXuEA8nPndchq1ddwFHnVeJGlOs8aTW1JAVnph8RyVDvArZKeMsKx5Umh2FcqzdO9hkHG8lmL8j4am9eQ6zEtuR5fA2fueUX2M=s0-d-e1-ft#http:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/d5d2b5ff001\/88150bc9-d1c2-4f80-86b7-67d06b587995.jpg\")
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