Author: Susan Blakey

  • En vacances

    Poster from here. By tomorrow afternoon, we will be here. For most of next week, I’ll be somewhere in the vicinity of: Posting may be…

  • Gender Studies: Girl Meets Boy

    Even before Diane Keaton as Annie Hall launched a thousand baggy menswear looks, une femme was a fan of androgynous style. Growing up I loved…

  • That Touch of Mink

    While Doris Day’s “professional virgin” characters never really appealed to me, and this movie is a particularly execrable entry in the “sex-and-the-single-girl-will-she-or-won’t-she-or-will-someone-think-she-did” titillation film genre…

  • O frabjous day!

    Callooh! Callay! (I suspect everyone will be dressed in much warmer attire today…forecast high 31F, snow flurries.) Edited to add: 1. Something told me I…

  • Gender Studies: The Male Gaze

    So Saturday night on our way to dinner, thinking of comments on my post here and Duchesse’s follow-up post here, I asked mon mari, “what…

  • The Existentialist

    Whoa. Even though I wouldn’t/couldn’t emulate this look, I am inspired by it on so many levels. From The Sartorialist. ~ All original content property…

  • Horizontal Stripes: Yea or Nay?

    Sonia Rykiel at Net-a-Porter, $670 Talbots Collection, $89 Banana Republic, $34 Marc by Marc Jacobs, $84 One of the Rules when I was growing up…