Barneys New York, The Up- scale department store, is not the sort of place one tends to shop for basics. Last Decem-ber, when the luxury retailer opened a new floor dedicated to casual wear at its flagship location on Madison Avenue, the space was stocked with exotic caged birds (which are not for sale) and $150 pairs of jeans (which are). Perhaps more noteworthy, roughly one-third of the floor was devoted entirely to that most prosaic of wardrobe necessities, the T shirt.
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