Author: Susan Blakey

In which Une femme ponders, “for whom do we dress, and what does it mean to look one’s best?” Those of us who regard style…

Unless you count a couple pairs of shoes and a few handbags, there’s nothing in une femme’s closet that could by any stretch of the…

While une femme’s sense of self and style these days is not quite as all over the map as I intimated in the Dolly Parton…

Miss Janey’s delightful post about The CMA’s over at HATtastic! brought to mind this quote by Dolly Parton, which has always been one of my…

“Look at me, they said. And I did.” This quote from Linda Grant’s blog, The Thoughtful Dresser (which has become one of my daily reads),…

If this is mutton, sign me up. Photo: http://www.exposay.com/ Seems this is a hot topic these past few days. Linda Grant at The Thoughtful Dresser…

Do you ever have one of those days when you just sort of dress from instinct, don’t put a lot of thought into it, but…

Wee cutie pie dressed as lamb. One expression that pops up frequently when it comes to age inappropriate style is “mutton dressed as lamb,” often…