I have been eagerly anticipating Angie's promised trend report, and keeping my eyes out for predictions and lookbooks elsewhere. The extra-thick August issues have always been to me compensation during the dwindling last days of summer, and a whetting of the appetite for fall fashion.

But I guess when I'm at work my mind is in another place... Yesterday I spotted a fashion mag in the stack of office mail and said to my receptionist, "Why are they talking about Tall Friends?"