Scarf-'snatch' socialite glams up for judge
At least her outfit wasn't a steal.
Fashion designer Beata Boman wasn't letting a criminal case cramp her style, sashaying into a Connecticut courthouse yesterday dressed to the nines -- and lugging a handbag that costs nearly as much as the $11,050 fur scarf she was busted for allegedly swiping from a Greenwich store.
"Probably not the best choice, to show up with a bag like that," sniffed a local matron who spotted Boman outside Stamford Superior Court after her first appearance in the larceny case.
The curvy Manhattan socialite clutched a $9,500 Hermes Birkin bag and wore a bursting-at-the-buttonholes gray blazer over a khaki pencil skirt. She also sported Chanel ballerina flats that
Boman, 38, who was famously spotted several years ago getting cozy with Britain's Prince Andrew on the French Riviera, moved to New York from London last year and launched a fur-friendly fashion line, Beata B.
Since then, she has been repeatedly photographed looking fabulous at a slew of high-class society soirees in Gotham and the Hamptons.
But Boman looked bummed last week after Greenwich cops pinched her just outside ritzy Richards of Greenwich Avenue store last Monday.
Police charged that she had stuffed a black, fur-lined Loro Piana stole-scarf worth $11,050 into her handbag and walked out without bothering to pay. She then strolled up the street to a Starbucks, where she briefly stepped in and then out before heading back to Richards.
Boman's lawyer, Mark Sherman said she "had gotten distracted" in Richards by a phone call with a friend who was awaiting brain surgery and wasn't aware she had stuffed the scarf into her purse until she got to Starbucks.
"She raced back to Richards to return it," Sherman said.
"She could certainly afford the scarf," he added.
Sherman was granted a continuance until July 11 after telling a judge he needed to review police reports.
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