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Posted in Beauty, Celebrity, Fashion, Humour, Rants on Mar 2nd, 2011
Nevermind the fact that a gay man who claims a gypsy mother would find little favour with the Hitler he professes to love, that there was plenty of room on those cattle cars for folks who weren’t Jewish. John Galliano’s rabid anti-Semitic outburst was a vehicle to attack women for being ‘ugly.’ Galliano’s point as a man who made millions in fashion was the [...]
A recent Guardian feature asked a number of fashionistas if the comfortable high heel, ‘the holy grail of fashion’ really exists. Oddly, many of the respondents agreed that it does, though there was little consensus as to who actually makes this mythical item. The article featured a bewildering number of shoe designers nominated for the [...]
Posted in Family, Fashion, Feminism, Guest Posters on Feb 24th, 2011
Last Wednesday evening, around tea time, my daughter grew about three inches. Growth spurts are bad news in our house because they inevitably mean the sudden relegation of an entire wardrobe to the charity bag. Then, only when there is one outfit, peering sad and lonely from a rail of empty hangers, do we admit [...]
I can’t remember which red carpet she was walking down, but recently I saw a photo of Michelle Williams and thought (after the usual “man, I can’t believe the girl who played Jen Linley on Dawson’s Creek turned into such a good and credible actress), “Wow, she always seems to wear really great clothes”. And [...]
Thank you. No really, you SHOULDN’T have. Someone I know*, who on the basis of having been in my presence more than once, bought me a gift that makes me wonder if they know me at all. On Christmas Day, (already queasy from a bug) , I unwrapped something that I couldn’t actually believe I [...]
Posted in Books, Celebrity, Fashion, Film, Women on Dec 3rd, 2010
Books that come into my house take their fair share of abuse. Pages will be folded from both the top and bottom corner when necessary; pens will mark the pages with comments and symbols for reference; spines will flex and bow open; toast crumbs will furrow between pages; tea will be spilt. I would no [...]
Posted in Beauty, Fashion, Feminism, Nightlife, Rants, Sex, Women on Nov 1st, 2010
Hurrah! We’ve just had another annual tits ‘n ass fest previously known as Halloween, and it was like Kentucky Fried Chicken out there, with all those breasts and thighs. French maids, slutty vampires, busty pirates, micro-minied milkmaids, pussy in boots, all available on a street near you, probably goosebumped but bobbing merrily, and not for [...]
Posted in Beauty, Celebrity, Fashion, Personal, Television on Oct 26th, 2010
In a recent episode of the greatest show on TV (Mad Men of course), Don Draper’s daughter Sally cut her long blonde hair one night when Don had left her with a babysitter. A furious Don sacked the hapless babysitter as soon as he clapped eyes on the resulting hair atrocity. His reaction was mild [...]
My mother recently had a significant birthday. To mark this fact, my sister and I took her on her first foreign holiday. I would tell you which significant birthday it was were it not for the fact that Mam’s next ‘first’ is to conquer The Internet. No doubt her first mission will be to google [...]
Posted in Advertising, Beauty, Celebrity, Fashion, Film, Uncategorized, Women on Sep 4th, 2010
One oft-repeated idea perceived as fact in popular culture refers to the ample figures women had in the 1950s as evidence of Post-War affluence, a reaction against the privation during war-time. Folks enjoy pointing to Marilyn Monroe’s zaftig form as the norm for the decade, when women boasted abundant cleavage and hips. More recently, [...]
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