The Making of a Mulberry Bag; Carrie Underwood on Beauty

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· How much to tip, from your bikini waxer to your personal trainer [Racked]
· What the team at luxury ecommerce site 1stdibs wears to work [Racked]
· How a Mulberry bag is made [i-D]
· A guide to traveling in style [Style.com]
· Camila Alves partners with Target [A Bullseye View]
· The 10 happiest retailers to work for in 2014 [Forbes]
· At the Islamic Fashion Festival in Malaysia [NYT]
· Carrie Underwood talks about doing her own makeup [Yahoo]
· Jennifer Lawrence fangirls out at Lisa Vanderpump's resto [Racked LA]
· Why is Bill Cosby's career over, but Terry Richardson's isn't? [Buzzfeed]
· Change.org petition seeks to make Old Navy change its plus size policies [SJ]

Local
· Yoga Joes: The perfect gift for the ironic pacifist [7x7]
· Seven events to kick off the holiday season [SF Mag]
· Why locals dig lines [The Bold Italic]
· Vandals burned the Duboce Triangle Little Free Library [Hoodline]
· How to shop Oakland's Piedmont Avenue [SFGate]
· See how a Racked photog cures her apartment style woes [Apartment Therapy]