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 →
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 →
…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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Where? From an online site that sells circle contact lenses, that’s where. Apparently, normal-sized irises are no longer big enough. Colored contacts that cover not only only the iris itself, but part of the white of the eye, are becoming … Continue reading →
Here’s Mark Steyn’s succinct take on McChrystal’s plight: Stanley McChrystal is a liberal who voted for Obama and banned Fox News from his HQ TV. Which may at least partly explain how he became the first U.S. general to be … Continue reading →
[Hat tip (literally): Vanderleun at American Digest.] It’s not easy to look good in a hat, although it helps to be beautiful to begin with, and to have classic features and well-defined cheekbones. Hats used to be part of most … Continue reading →
There are many many things one might say about this photo. But I’ll stick to: the shoes. Why? How? Your turn.
Continue reading →Just when you think political debate can’t descend any lower, it goes and takes a nosedive. Case in point: the burning controversy over whether Sarah Palin’s breasts have had some recent enhancement of the surgical variety. The rumor was fueled … Continue reading →
Yeah, yeah, I know she doesn’t. But a while back I recommended a better look for Michelle Obama at state functions—something like the Oleg Cassini ball gown once worn by Jackie Kennedy at a 1962 White House dinner honoring Nobel … Continue reading →