Miss Frances Odum of Covington, Georgia, displays a quilt made from prize ribbons won by her father’s cattle, a photo from the Mid-Week Pictorial of December 19, 1931.
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Blue Ribbons
Posted in Art, Fashion on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At the End of the Meal…
Posted in Fashion, Food, Literature on April 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“It is also bad manners to clean your teeth with your napkin, and still worse to do it with your finger, for such conduct is unsightly. It is wrong to rinse your mouth and spit out the wine in public, and it is not a polite habit, when you rise from the table, to carry [...]
More Social Tips from 1558
Posted in Fashion, Literature on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“When you have blown your nose, you should not open your handkerchief and inspect it, as though pearls or rubies had dropped out of your skull. Such behavior is nauseating and is more likely to lose us the affection of those who love us than to win us the favour of others.” “It is not [...]
For Serious Persons
Posted in Fashion, Literature on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The plumes which Neapolitans and Spaniards wear in their head-dress, and all forms of trimming and embroidery, are out of place in the dress of serious persons and city-dwellers. Armour and chain-mail are still less suitable.” – Giovanni Della Casa in Galateo or The Book of Manners (1558)
Always an Inspiration to Me, Too
Posted in Fashion on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Around the same time he was also putting the finishing touches on his prefall women’s collection, which was inspired by the mourning widows of Irish whalers.” – Samantha Conti, on Alexander McQueen, in “Fashion’s Dark Star,” W Magazine, April 2010
Lewis Lacey
Posted in Fashion, Polo on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend, the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame welcomed Lewis Lacey, to which I say, “It’s about time.” Lewis L. Lacey was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1887, the son of William Lacey, a professional cricket player. In 1891, when the Hurlingham Club was established by the British colony outside of Buenos [...]
My Newest Favorite Blog
Posted in Art, Fashion, Photography on January 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
An image from Lark About, a blog subtitled, “This is where we post the things that inspire us every day.” An amazing, magical array of visual treats.
A Blessing of Blogs
Posted in Art, Blogroll, Fashion, Photography on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently had the unalloyed joy of working with Jamie Jordan of Jacksonville, a designer with a fine eye and even finer sneakers, who, as a parting gift, gave me the URLs of her favorite blogs. It would be unspeakably greedy of me to keep these to myself: Oh Joy! — inspiration, design, style Camilla [...]
Fascination
Posted in Fashion, Literature on April 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I love reading beyond my demographic. In the May-June 2009 issue of Veranda, there is a feature about a wedding in France with a photo caption that reads, “Happy groom with the bride, who wears a white plumed fascinator.” I applaud the writer, Tom Woodham, for knowing the word “fascinator.” I would have said, “The [...]
People Just Don’t Know How to Dress Anymore
Posted in Fashion on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Mrs. Hutchinson, who had two diamond pins in her coronet braid, had on a cloak of squirrel.” – “Society Again Out in Force at Show: Fashionable Throng Continues to Pay Homage to the Horse in National Exhibition” in The New York Times, November 17, 1922
