Nostalgia and the Bad Old Days
Maya’s Granny posted last week about the TV show Mad Men, and some of her experiences as a woman in a man’s world during that…
Author: Susan Blakey
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Miss Lorraine’s School of Charm and Modeling
(This originally started out as a short story, and was posted on my first blog, Dilettante’s Progress a year or so ago.) When I was…
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Musings On Body Image, Diets and the Fashion Juggernaut
There’s been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere in recent days about dieting and size acceptance, and about the impact of fashion magazines on…
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"Chic," qu’est-ce c’est?
French women supposedly Have It. The rest of us supposedly Want It. But what is it? “Chic” is something most of us feel we recognize…
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French Lessons
When we first started making plans to visit Paris this last spring, my primary and overarching concern was What To Wear. I had no worries…
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To Color and Color Not
In the 80’s, color was a hot topic. Ted Turner was colorizing classic black and white movies amid protests from filmmakers and film buffs, and…
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Smoke and Misogyny
Anyone else watching “Mad Men” on AMC? Don Draper is a buttoned down, buttoned up, top-of-his-game Ad Exec with a beautiful young wife who may…
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The Mother of Re-Invention
picture from http://www.costumes.org/ It starts when we’re very little girls. Someone reads Cinderella to us, and we are told that as her clothes and shoes…
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A Bad Influence?
Meg over at Faking Good Breeding has an interesting post up this week about whether fashion and beauty blogs are contributing to the normalization of…
