Author: Susan Blakey

  • Essentials – Bags and Shoes

    Earlier this week, I delved into my differences with some of the published stylistas about what constitutes a wardrobe must-have. Though they may be a…

  • Foulard de la semaine

    Monday night was the maiden voyage for this plissé scarf. The photo doesn’t do justice to the colors in this scarf which range from leaf…

  • L’shana tovah!

    May you be inscribed for a sweet year! All original content property of https://unefemmenet.wpengine.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United…

  • Hits and Myths

    Last week, Shar at La Femme Couture posted an excellent piece titled Wardrobe Must-Haves…and Myths, a topic I’ve also been pondering lately, after having read…

  • RIP, Paul

    I’ve read so many moving tributes in the last day, anything I were to add at this point would just be extraneous. The world is…

  • Foulard de la semaine

    Grand-mêre’s scarf again. We had one of those weeks here that reminds us we’re living in a coastal desert. I’m looking forward to the cool…

  • Hommes et foulards

    From the NYT: The lightweight scarf, until lately an autumnal hallmark of European aristos and Upper East Side decorators, has been embraced by style-savvy downtownsters….

  • Cream of the Cropped

    Cropped jackets seem to still be going strong this fall, despite some forecasts for longer lengths to make a resurgence. As it’s une femme’s belief…

  • Ch-ch-ch-changes

    Materfamilias posted this poem a few days ago: To My Last Period (Lucille Clifton, 1991) well girl, goodbye, after thirty-eight years. thirty-eight years and you…