I spy…
She yells, “Hey! Throw me the ball!” Someone obliges…
I bought this postcard at the MoMA Design and Book Store. According to Terence Riley, “[Architect] Nitzchke designed the Maison de Publicité Project for a hypothetical site on the Champs-Elysées…”
A trio makes a trend…
[Warning: this post exposes my inner-nerd. So what does that make me? A nerdy fashionista? A fashionable nerd? I’m cool with either.] Earlier this week during my mundane morning commute via Metro, it dawned on me that QR codes (which are ubiquitous on every freakin’ ad plastered throughout every station) look a lot like houndstooth. […]
So the other day I was reading about the Roaring Twenties. I had forgotten how much astonishing shit happened during that decade: women’s suffrage, the Lost Generation, the Jazz Age, Charles Lindburgh, radio, the mass production of the automobile, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Al Capone, and so on. (Maybe I can rework the […]
In case you were wondering, the old Linda Ronstadt song “Blue Bayou” somehow popped into my head as I was writing this post. (For better or worse, I live with random thoughts percolating through my cerebral cortex all the time.) So I saw this painting by Utah-based artist and environmentalist Susan Swartz in the July […]
I’ve found that with blouses and button-downs, it’s very tricky to get the proper fit—you gotta worry about the bust, waist, shoulders and sleeve length being just so. And even with a little stretch thrown into the fabric mix, I still feel constricted, like I’m gonna pop a button even though I have only a […]
Nope, this post is not about apples, onions, curry or tea. It’s not about the Lantern, Hornet or Acres. And not about Eva, Seth or Al. It’s about green, the color. Since I recently wrote an ode to pink, I naturally owe one to its preppy complement. It just so happens that the Textile Museum […]