n trying to make a dent in my pile of past issues of , a Sisyphean task if ever there was one, I found comfort in the snowy cover illustration of the 28 February issue on a late-August day when temperatures reached boiling point. In her latest instalment of “On and Off the Avenue”, the magazine’s long-running retail and style column, Patricia Marx wrote about the trials and triumphs of downsizing. The article, entitled
