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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Flattery Will Get You Everywhere…Almost
Having spent years being utterly convinced of my own style ineptitude, and possessing an annoying tendency to not trust my own judgement, I’ve often been…
The Commandments of Style, Old and New Testaments
The indoctrination to sartorial rules began for me back in the days when women were “ladies,” and ladies paid strict attention to those rules, if…
The Price of Beauty
OK, this NYT article has been making the rounds in the blogosphere, and may I just say, What. The. Fuck. $1000 per week on a…
Embracing (or at least, air kissing) The Inevitable
There comes a day when we look in the mirror, see the turkey neck, and admit to ourselves that the Pretty Train has left the…
