Here’s more on that beautiful Grecian-inspired dress of Jackie Kennedy’s, the one I thought would have looked nice on Michelle at Obama’s inaugural ball. A reader and friend kindly sent me the following photo of Jackie wearing the dress at … Continue reading →
Not to belabor the point (oh, maybe just a little), but this is what Michelle Obama should have worn to the Inaugural Ball. Although a different color might have been in order, the cut and drape would have been just … Continue reading →
Okay, I’m a woman, and I notice these fashiony things. So sue me. I happen to think Michelle Obama usually dresses beautifully. She’s tall and slender and toned (although hardly model-thin, especially the lower half of her body). If carefully … Continue reading →
It has been so cold, snowy, and blustery these last couple of days that I’ve resorted to wearing a garment I only reserve for the most trying of times, weatherwise: my full-length down coat, a Michelin-like affair that encases me … Continue reading →
More on mothers and daughters and the passage of time. The following photo, however, is my favorite in the piece. What carriage and natural elegance the woman had! [NOTE: Oops! Trying to have a nonpolitical weekend, and here I somehow … Continue reading →
Today’s hatred of Palin is driven at least partly by a host of elements connected to class, despite our protestations that we’re a relatively classless society. This particular class consciousness, which disregards Palin’s formidable accomplishments as governor as though they … Continue reading →
Instapundit links to this Washington Post article entitled “Many Clinton Supporters Say Speech Didn’t Heal Divisions.” I beg to differ.
Continue reading →I hereby object to the obvious pulchritudinous inequities of the Olympian sport of beach volleyball. To wit: why is it that the women’s torsos are relatively unclad while the men’s are coyly covered in tank tops?
Continue reading →A 52-year old woman has sued underwear giant Victoria’s Secret for an eye injury caused when a metal clip securing a rhinestone heart to a thong flew off and injured her cornea. This is another example of just how readily … Continue reading →
I grew up playing a fair game of tennis on the public courts of New York. Just to show you how long ago that was, the courts were made of reddish clay that had to be rolled after the games … Continue reading →
In my continuing quest to lighten up and at least slightly de-Obamafy this page, I’m weighing in on the pressing question posed by this Time Online piece: does breast augmentation lead to—or is it a sign of—impending divorce? Since I’m … Continue reading →
Today I got mired writing one of those loooong posts that involved far more work than I’d envisioned. And so I’m postponing it, and humbly offer instead this brief foray into frivolity: hat fashion this year at Ascot (and there … Continue reading →