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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 indoctrination to sartorial rules began for me back in the days when women were “ladies,” and ladies paid strict attention to those rules, if…
Sign up to be notified of updates from
une femme d’un certain âge