After seeing well-dressed Parisian women everywhere, James made a New Year's resolution to dress like a native and decided to hit the biannual sale in Paris department stores as well as those that are a little more high-end. The sales are regulated by the government, which only allows the two a year. "Have you seen the Filene's basement wedding-dress event on television?" James wrote of her experience at the sale. "Add the security guards from Walmart's 'Black Friday' sales, keeping back the hordes so that innocent salespeople aren't literally trampled to death. I aged five years in Galeries Lafayette."
