Embracing Your Inner Bourgeois*
Or, What’s So Bad About Looking Respectable?*Title inspired from this comment from materfamilias on her post here, (responding to comments from the Scarves discussion at…
Author: Susan Blakey
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Age-Appropriate Yet Ageless
That was my first reaction when I saw this at The Sartorialist today. Though I probably wouldn’t wear this ensemble myself (being short, the clothes…
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The City That Doesn’t Sleep
Combine too much bad office coffee downed during interminably long meetings, a rich dinner with cocktails and wine and a double espresso to top it…
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New York State of Mind – Partie Un
New York is not a city for the indecisive or the broke. I discovered this when I first worked there in the early 80’s. I…
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Par avion
Une femme loves to fly. I love almost everything about it (except the lines and the hassle of practically stripping down to skivvies to go…
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Another reason why…
…it pays to buy good shoes. Bought these Ecco’s over a year ago, and just had them “refurbished” by my local shoe repair guy for…
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Foulard de la semaine
This is a smaller (70cm x 70cm) silk square. Fold diagonally into an oblong shape, then tie a knot in the center, and one on…
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Meme: More Factoids About Moi
Tagged by Shefaly at La Vie Quotidienne: 1. Last movie you saw in a theater?“Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day” 2. What book are you…
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Weekend Update
I’ve been tagged by La Vie Quotienne and Always In Style for memes, and I will get to those shortly, I promise. Of the jackets…
