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The Image staff muses on the culture of keeping up appearances
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J. Crew Books compiles a hilarious list of missed gifts and mis-gifts
It's the last day of 2009, and I'm sitting here in the Image section cubicle farm laughing to myself, thanks to the book "What I Didn't Get for Christmas."

It's the second title to come out of apparel retailer J. Crew's foray into the field of publishing, and it ended up on my desk after I called the company to find out more information about its first book -- a hilarious (though unfortunately not currently available) tome titled "What a Man Should Know" by Max Blagg.

By Partners & Spade (a team that includes Andy Spade, founder of the Jack Spade line of men's utility bags and accessories), it sounds like an odd, and slightly depressing idea for a book -- anecdotes about memorable holiday presents that never were (or horribly ill-received gifts that were under the tree), by random people you've mostly never heard of before.

There's one missed gift/mis-gift per page, and none are more than a few paragraphs long. Each is accompanied by a crudely drawn Hugo Guinness illustration on the facing page. Some of the laugh-out-loud recollections involved a balance beam (clad in her gymnastic shoes, Amanda Brooks took the wraps off a ... grand piano), a G.I. Joe Mobile Support Vehicle, and the gift of wrong jeans ("to say what kind they were would damn them unfairly," writes Jeff Kling).

It might be kind of a downer to find in your stocking on Christmas morning, but since it's currently on sale at J. Crew's website for $9.99 (down from $20), it's worth salting away to throw out on the coffee table next year. With any luck,it will serve as a conversation starter for your own friends' tales of Christmas gifting gone awry.

-- Adam Tschorn

Photo: The second title from J. Crew Books, "What I Didn't Get for Christmas," by Partners & Spade's Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti, is a funny and touching recollection of missed gifts and mis-gifts of holidays gone by. Photo credit: J. Crew

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Word up: The return of the 'Sex and the City' nameplate necklace
Sarah Jessica Parker's "Carrie" necklace in HBO's "Sex and the City" helped bring urban chic into high fashion -- and was one of the only constant pieces in her character's ever-evolving wardrobe.

When the show became a hit, we all ran out to get a nameplate necklace (my "Emili" necklace is suitably rough-hewn, hand-crafted by an East L.A. high-schooler). But the flames cooled on the trend rather quickly; and we all moved on to diamond solitaire pendants, bib-style statement necklaces, etc.

But lately, I've been noticing the return of wordy necklaces -- sometimes spelling out names, but more often calling out locales and phrases.

And hip fashion companies are getting on board with the resurgence, too. Topshop's U.S. website, for example, has an array of phrase-y necklaces on display, spelling out "Essex," "I Love London," "Ooh-La-La" and "Cockney," among other sentiments.

But in the end, I'm still a fan of the original ghetto-gold name necklace (I even like the diamond-encrusted ones); the more frilly the script, the better. SoulJewelry.com has fab ones that will last forever, ranging from $100 to $200.

-- Emili Vesilind

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Photo: Topshop "Cockney" necklace, $20. Photo credit: Topshop

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