Archive for 'Fashion'
Shout Out to Clutter
2 July 2007
You know how wannabe Buddhists drape Tibetan prayer flags at the entrance to their homes? Well I’ve done that.
Strung those lovely yellow, green, red, white and blue flags across the entryway to my walk-in closet that is.
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Point of Difference
9 April 2007
Yesterday was Easter Sunday so it made sense that I saw a woman wearing a fancy hat.
But the actual hat didn’t make much sense at all.
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Hair Today
26 March 2007
It is not only we girls who are obsessed with what to do with our unwanted, unruly hairs.
Whether to trim, pluck, shave, wax, or laser etc. etc., this is the new millennium enquiry amongst both sexes.
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Noise D’Jour
26 February 2007
The 1994 Australian film, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, celebrated “a c… in a frock on a rock.” Last night, the Academy Awards red-carpet gowns celebrated ‘rocks on frocks’!
The ‘c…s’, a.k.a. blokes, in their standard-issue dinner suits created a pleasantly neutral backdrop for the ornamented evening dresses favored by many this year.
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Bond Girl At Any Age
4 December 2006
Yesterday I witnessed a very glam, pint-size septuagenarian channeling her inner Bond girl.
At seventy-something, she was solo cross-country skiing, uphill, wearing a gorgeous coordinated ski-outfit with such panache that 007, had he made an appearance, would’ve completed the picture - as the perfect boy-toy companion.
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Middle Ground
23 October 2006
VicSec has opened a new store near me. Of course I went and checked it out.
Guess what I saw? Heaps of little-girl pink cotton undies!
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Put Together
2 October 2006
It has come to my attention, because the best friends have told me so, that I give the impression of being totally put together.
And this is despite regularly anointing myself with food spillages and professing that a napkin the size of a tablecloth is my only salvation.
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What’s your BMI?
11 September 2006
I’m moving to Spain.
And not because I’ll be nearer to all those hunky, World Cup Soccer euro-types; it’s because the Spanish like their girls with a healthy body mass index.
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Food Spillages
5 September 2006
I’ve just thrown my washing in the machine: Peach Bellini and olive-oil stained gauchos, white shirt polka dotted with bits of melted chocolate, dried egg yolk adhered to fibers of sweater.
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Release Your Inner Dove
31 July 2006
It’s August tomorrow and that means it’s time to talk fall fashion trends.
This year the seasonal trend is all about too much emphasis on your thighs and bum. Yep, stovepipe pants and leggings are back!
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