Gender Studies: Girl Meets Boy

Even before Diane Keaton as Annie Hall launched a thousand baggy menswear looks, une femme was a fan of androgynous style. Growing up I loved…

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…