Before I start, let me make it very clear that I do not think it’s a good thing to be seriously overweight. No one in her right mind would purposefully gain weight she didn’t need. (Except for actors for roles and people like Donna Simpson, the 600-lb. woman who wants to get to 1,000—and you [...]
In an imagined essay* by Carrie Bradshaw about her trip to the Middle East, she writes: We felt just awful for those poor Arab women. We saw the way they looked longingly at our glamorous and vibrant couture. The difference between those women and us is that we look fabulous under oppression! We can get [...]
The April 19, 2010 issue of Newsweek magazine included an article about Grace Kelly‘s clothes. For those of you who don’t know who that is, she was an actress (think “Rear Window” with Jimmy Stewart) who married a prince (literally: Prince Rainier of Monaco). While highly acclaimed as an actress, it was her cool and [...]
I committed an environmental faux pas recently. On the 18th I wrote a post extolling the virtues of new clothes and four days later I wrote a post for Earth Day on how we’re ripping off Mother Earth by using up her resources. Well, okay, one way we do that is by buying new clothes. [...]
Henry David Thoreau cautioned us to not think that clothes make the [wo]man: Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes…Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted, so enterprised or sailed in some way, that [...]
The author of The Best of Everything After 50 shares advice on The Today Show: For more information about the book, read Julia Moulden at The Huffington Post. Also read “Why Women Should Look Forward to Aging,” written by a man!
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