The logo Gap
Old tried and true Gap logo: New Gap logo for which the company probably paid a gazillion dollars: No one seems happy about it. As for me, I tend to be oblivious of logos in general. If you had asked … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Fashion and beauty
Take a fashion(?) break
Every now and then, when the world is too much with me, I hie myself to the blog Go Fug Yourself for some light distraction. There I usually find an embarrassment of riches, and today is no exception. In fact, … Continue reading →
On small breasts
In an effort to boost my traffic, I am writing about breasts today. Small breasts. But breasts nonetheless As did the NY Times recently, in a piece about a new trend: lingerie stores that cater to and celebrate the less-endowed … Continue reading →
Another longhair bites the dust
Anne Hathaway joins the gamine brigade—not very successfully, IMHO: [NOTE: See my previous post on the subject of the super-short haircut for women.]
Continue reading →Okay Julia, wassup…
…with the dress? I kind of really really really want to know what you were thinking. Because to get away with a dress like that (which may not even be possible) a person must be very young and a model … Continue reading →
Scary skinny
I remember model Twiggy. She was thin: And then Kate Moss, ditto: But this is getting ridiculous. And scary, too, if this woman’s body is seen as something to emulate. America’s Top Model? Perish the thought: Here’s another photo, in … Continue reading →
Zero waste design
My guess is that this herald’s the demise of the patchwork quilt: Zero-waste design strives to create clothing patterns that leave not so much as a scrap of fabric on the cutting room floor. This is not some wacky avant-garde … Continue reading →
Hair: the long and the short and the aging
To take up a topic suggested by a number of comments to my earlier post today (and to avoid talking about Obama just a little bit longer): why do older women, or even middle-aged women, so seldom wear their hair … Continue reading →
Call it pixie, call it gamine, call it…
…difficult to wear. It takes a very special woman with a very special face to make the pixie haircut work (confession: I am not now, nor have I ever been, that woman). But Emma Watson of “Harry Potter” fame has … Continue reading →
The 6-items-of-clothing diet
If I had to choose only six items of clothing to wear for a month (plus underwear), it wouldn’t be these six—bore-ing (especially that sad sack of a dress): But oh, what would my own selections be? To start with, … Continue reading →
My big fat size 10
Model Crystal Renn is what passes for “plus-size” in the distorted world of modeling. Take a look at Ms. Renn, who is 5’9″ and wears a size 10: To me, Renn looks attractive and robust but still relatively trim and … Continue reading →
Walk on the wild side: five-inch heels
I see them in all the stores these days. They look like an exaggerated joke about the extent to which women will go to martyr themselves for the sake of beauty. I refer of course to the five-inchers, that latest … Continue reading →