We have so many seasons here so I have various coats and jackets. The in-between seasons are the toughest. I have a leather 3/4 length brown leather jacket with a zip-out pile lining (that's for the really cold weather), a long, black raincoat with a hood, also with a zip-out pile lining, a long black wool coat, no buttons, but it has a tie I never use. Yesterday I wore a jacket from Guatemala, with the front all embroidered. Dancer, do you need a coat in Arizona? I guess at night it gets cold, huh? Mountain Ash, I love how that Italian coat sounds. We have a designer discount store called TJ Max -- wonder if it's related to yours?

Speaking of discounts and knock-offs, I was just reading about how they spent $150,000 on Sarah Palin's and her family's wardrobe. The editor of Glamour magazine said that, looking at before and after photos of the types of suits Palin prefers, she didn't understand how they could've spent that much, and that she could've saved them a lot of money.