When I was in high school, my ‘purse’ of choice was a
hot-off-the-runway design called a Jansport backpack, which really
complemented my Alicia Silverstone-wannabe wardrobe from Contempo
Casuals and 579. In other words, I would have been a grade-A outcast by
today’s “Gossip Girl” standards, which sees trust-fund teenyboppers