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MY first encounter with luxury fashion came at age 15, when my dapper father took me past the fragrance counters of Saks Fifth Avenue, up the mirrored escalators to whichever floor was then housing the gilded designer salons (instead of the jammed racks of so-called "better dresses," with all that ominously implies). Hitherto I had shopped at the humbler, now-defunct Gimbels on Lexington Avenue, supplementing my meager haul with the occasional vial of mascara shoplifted from the even more cut-rate Woolworth down the street. But here, in the hushed confines of Calvin Klein, we happened upon a camel-hair cape whose price tag, to my youthful astonishment, displayed four figures. Being a psychiatrist, not an investment banker, my dad didn't make the purchase; nor, as a rather gawky, accident-prone teenager, did I really want him to. (Indeed, I maintain a fearful, ambivalent relationship with expensive clothes to this day.) But we spent what seemed an eternity trying the cape on, admiring and deliberating it.I remembered this adventure during a recent exploration of Net-a-Porter, the top-of-the-line shopping site that has defied all gloomy prognostications about e-commerce and helped transform the way well-off women stock their wardrobes: surreptitiously, frequently and online, rather than in grand seasonal outings to corniced retail palaces. While other sites present undersize photographs, cluttered layouts and awkward shipping arrangements, this one has its act together.Ground shipping and returns are free, maximizing the opportunity to give things a spin in your own living room (so long as it's carpeted). And every single item is a camel-hair cape, metaphorically speaking: photographed in panoramic detail, first alone �� waiting, tantalizingly, to be pasted on the paper doll that is you �� and then on waxen, faceless models against stark white backgrounds, as if in a museum.Like department stores, Net-a-Porter organizes its offerings by designer, enough to fill the floor of an airplane hangar. You can also examine the garments in "boutiques" themed to occasion, color or category, and see them pop up on a map the moment they are bought in Krakow or Shanghai; the excesses of our global sisterhood is oddly soothing. Pecking in a search for "capes" (Rosebud!), I found a navy merino wool one by the model-turned-knitwear designer Claudia Schiffer, who was discovered in a D��sseldorf disco about the time I was ushered through Saks, for a mere $585. "wholesale tory burch shoes,"ugg bailey button triplet women,"pink juicy couture