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Lowest Common Denominator: Lucky, November
$2.99: Lucky’s cover price
$30: Suggested retail of Kim France and Andrea Linett’s new book, “The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style,” excerpted in the November issue 
97%: Oddly enough, the amount of content in those excerpted pages that looks exactly like every single issue of Lucky
1: Number of times each that the alleged word “fashiony” is applied to the Gap and Banana Republic
2: Staffers who publicly admit to “converting” to Jessica Simpson’s new fragrance, Fancy, after Simpson appeared on October’s cover
31.5: Months, at the current rate of 2 employees per month, until the rest of the editorial staff is engulfed in the Great Simpson Perfume Convergence
10: Brands of non-Simpson perfume advertised in this issue, including—so help me—Fairy Dust by Paris Hilton
“Hugely”: Amount powder could potentially change your appearance, according to “Loose Powder: How and Why” in “Beauty Spy”
3: Number of “dramatically different looks” that can be achieved simply by using a different mascara, according to page 144 of “Beauty Spy”
47: Other life issues, approximately, I need to tackle before I’ll have even the slightest motivation to test on my own face Lucky’s gripping hypotheses about the transformative powers of cosmetics
“All the time”: Frequency with which beauty editor Jean Godfrey-June buys “things [she] can’t afford,” as divulged in “The Beauty Closet”
$86,483: Total retail value of all jewelry featured in “The Lucky Fall Jewelry Guide”
56: Number of adjectives and adjectival phrases in “The Season’s Best Coats”
26: Number of apparel items described by those 56 terms
30: Even more meaningless descriptors—like “nonchalant crisp” and “cozy meets flirty”—applied to the ensembles in “A Month of Outfits”
Infinite: Desperation emanating from the pop-up that screams “WAIT! SUBSCRIBE TO LUCKY!” when leaving Lucky’s website
