Thought for the day…
Note to self: Style should never feel forced. If you have to make yourself wear something, it’s not right for you. Let it go.~ All original…
Thinking About…
By Invitation Only: Look For The Good
We’re getting deep at By Invitation Only! This month’s topic is “What’s Wrong With The World/What’s Right With The World.” One certainly doesn’t have to…
Encore: Near Misses
UN-Reality TV! Encore post from June, 2011. We found out while on our way home that we’d dodged a bullet in Florence: just a few…
Encore: If I Can’t Dance…
Pic borrowed from Penny Dreadful Vintage here. Repost from April, 2011. If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution. —Emma GoldmanThough according to scholars, this…
Hiding In Plain Sight
Quelques Parisiennes in their natural habitat. Note the (mostly) sensible shoes. It was rather serendipitous, Duchesse’s post yesterday at Passage Des Perles. (When A French…
Who Do You Think You Are?
Putting on arias. It’s still a vivid memory. It was second grade and we were lined up outside the auditorium waiting to go inside for…
Les Deux Femmes
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds… –Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two women sharing space in my closet. Both are actually me,…
Let Me Say This About That: Helen Gurley Brown
I’ve read some eulogies of Helen Gurley Brown in the last few days that would lead you to believe she was a mid-century Marianne, leading…
D’habitude
I just adore an Old School riding habit, don’t you? In the past few years I’ve come to realize that even more than those bursts…
