That Touch of Mink

While Doris Day’s “professional virgin” characters never really appealed to me, and this movie is a particularly execrable entry in the “sex-and-the-single-girl-will-she-or-won’t-she-or-will-someone-think-she-did” titillation film genre…

O frabjous day!

Callooh! Callay! (I suspect everyone will be dressed in much warmer attire today…forecast high 31F, snow flurries.) Edited to add: 1. Something told me I…

Gender Studies: The Male Gaze

So Saturday night on our way to dinner, thinking of comments on my post here and Duchesse’s follow-up post here, I asked mon mari, “what…

The Existentialist

Whoa. Even though I wouldn’t/couldn’t emulate this look, I am inspired by it on so many levels. From The Sartorialist. ~ All original content property…

Horizontal Stripes: Yea or Nay?

Sonia Rykiel at Net-a-Porter, $670 Talbots Collection, $89 Banana Republic, $34 Marc by Marc Jacobs, $84 One of the Rules when I was growing up…

Jaeger Tea

Even though the average temperature in LA this week will be higher than our average temperatures last summer, I know many of you are currently…

Let it snow, let it snow…

…in Colorado, anyway. We’re getting ready for our annual ski trip, leaving in less than three weeks. We didn’t go last year due to my…