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 Engman — [...]
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A Blessing of Blogs
Posted in Art, Blogroll, Fashion, Photography on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 bride [...]
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
