A Reporter at Lage- Patricia Marx- Hot Flashes

In an advice narrative, reporter Patricia Marx attempts to put a new spin on shopping advice. She explains, "New York is the city of coats: real coats, not car coats, for in this town we walk, even if only to catch the bus." Marx's article flows roughly out of this analysis: that New York winters are cold and one must know where and how to traverse the slippery slope of outerwear shopping. The structure of the article is an awkward series of transitions between Marx's winter shopping story and parenthetical phrases explaining different designers and their correlating clothing prices. This article is a monotonous attempt at creatively rendering clothing alternatives, and would be more complete with pictures followed by captions explaining the clothing instead of the brief and hardly descriptive prose used by Marx.