#BATSHEVA HAYS EGGY HANUKKAH FULL#
I see Hay, who is wearing one of her own casual, green cotton floral dresses and hauling an Ikea bag full of fabric and shirts. I stick out like a sore thumb here in my flares so tight that I feel like an encased sausage. A tiny booth near the cash register is stocked with religious paraphilia: Shabbat candle sets and cards with religious figures. A huge modernist chandelier hangs from the ceiling, and the store is filled with skirts, dresses, and sweaters. When I arrive, I’m instantly taken in by the store.
On her trawl, she came across Top Fashion, a store specializing in modest clothes located on 382 Kingston Ave, and our destination this afternoon. “My husband loves a little Judaica gift, like a tallis and a gartle,” she says. They got married eight years ago on the fifth night of Hanukah, so the holiday is especially sentimental. She’s been to the neighborhood recently, shopping for a religious gift for her and her husband’s anniversary. Still, she wants a real-deal one from Crown Heights. Hay makes dresses for a living, and has pretty much reinvented the frumpy Yentl frock into a chic must-have. She wants to buy a dress for the occasion, which bewilders me. But Hay-and the energy of Crown Heights-has gotten me newly excited. The holiday has been commercialized and I feel like it has diluted its original meaning of miracles and rebuilding. If anything, I’ll light a half-burned Diptyque candle and call it a day. I haven’t really celebrated the Jewish holiday since I was a child. It has the celebratory energy of the Rockefeller Center tree-lighting, just in Brooklyn and, well, kosher. Bordering secular New York, Crown Heights is transformative during the holidays. The men have beards and wear Borsalino black hats. Here, women typically abide by modest laws of Judaism known as tznius, and wear dresses to cover their elbows, necks, and knees. For this edition, we shop with Batsheva Hay of the label Batsheva at the Crown Heights store, Top Fashion.īatsheva Hay of the label Batsheva is on the hunt for a Hanukkah look in Crown Heights-an epicenter of Chabad-Lubavitch Judaism in New York City.
#BATSHEVA HAYS EGGY HANUKKAH SERIES#
Welcome to Shopping With Vogue, a series in which we sift through a fashion lover’s favorite store.
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