Summer outfit....
26 July 2009
What I love about this outfit is it's crisp simplicity and the ease with which just about any woman can archive the same look with pieces that suit their figures and price point.
A great example of how less can definitely be more!
Showing posts with label clothing for women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clothing for women. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Wouldn't it be lovely in these time crunched days...
To have your own personal shopper?
And yes, some of the major stores do offer personal shopper services for free -- but then you have to go into the store to take advantage of that and that takes time, the time you supposedly don't have...well you get the picture.
But what if you had a personal shopper who did the research for you -- and sent the results right to your e-mail...
Meet ShopItToMe
Here in brief is how it works:
1. You sign up.
2. You choose the retailer/designers you love/buy
3. You choose how often you want to be notified
And viola! When items by that retailer/designer goes on sale on pretty much any website, you get an e-mail which not only tells you what's on sale but provides a picture and link to the site!
I received an e-mail from the site basically announcing the service and suggesting that it might be of interest to my readers -- so I decided to check it out. And I must say, it is pretty slick! And if you, like me, do a great deal of online shopping it's that personal online shopper you've been wishing for! My one caveat is that they need to add more retailers - I'm not quite sure why J Jill is not a choice!
So go on over and give ShopItToMe a try!
And yes, some of the major stores do offer personal shopper services for free -- but then you have to go into the store to take advantage of that and that takes time, the time you supposedly don't have...well you get the picture.
But what if you had a personal shopper who did the research for you -- and sent the results right to your e-mail...
Meet ShopItToMe
Here in brief is how it works:
1. You sign up.
2. You choose the retailer/designers you love/buy
3. You choose how often you want to be notified
And viola! When items by that retailer/designer goes on sale on pretty much any website, you get an e-mail which not only tells you what's on sale but provides a picture and link to the site!
I received an e-mail from the site basically announcing the service and suggesting that it might be of interest to my readers -- so I decided to check it out. And I must say, it is pretty slick! And if you, like me, do a great deal of online shopping it's that personal online shopper you've been wishing for! My one caveat is that they need to add more retailers - I'm not quite sure why J Jill is not a choice!
So go on over and give ShopItToMe a try!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
While I'm busy bitchin' about designers....
Can it be that we make some of our own troubles?.....
Carolina Herrera Will Tell You If You're Too Thin to Look Good
Go on over to Style.com, take a look at Ms. Herrera's Spring '08 RTW runway show and judge for yourself if she's just blowin' it out her butt on the skinny model issue...
Carolina Herrera Spring '08 RTW
(Okay, I'll admit that her models do have some meat on their bones - but I see her share of boney knees as well!)
But the part of the piece I found most interesting was her comment on the unthinkableness of showing the collections on "very fat" people (Tell me Carolina, what qualifies in your mind as "very fat"? A perfectly acceptable size 14 perhaps?) because women come to the shows to fantasize about the clothes they see on the runway making them look like the models.
Normally, I would blow that off as just another designer excuse - but when Stacy London of What Not To Wear fame noted that it was a true statement based on "studies" that women don't want to see the clothes on realistically sized women, well that made me pause 'cause Stacy has never come across to me as a size Nazi by any means.
So that begs the question ladies -- Is it them - or is it us? Are designers trying to foist an unrealistic image on us - or are we demanding it because we ourselves are unrealistic about what truly makes us look good? 'Cause honey, if any of us - especially we 50+ babes - are thinking that any dress ever made is going to make us look like some pre-pubescent 12 year old made up to look like an 18 year old, tottering down the runway on way too high heels, we're not just unrealistic - we're delusional!
To get right down to it - are we too cowardly to look ourselves in the mirror, take honest stock of what we really look like and have to work with today and not only work with it but demand that those who design the clothes we consider wearing work with it too? And not just demand - but give permission to designers to design and show for real women with all our curves and bumps and bones and wonderful imperfections.
Because if we are saying that's what we want, but turning our noises up when we see the clothes on the runway on real women, not children (thus giving us a real picture of what they are likely to look like on us) then we get what we deserve - unwearable clothes that make us look downright ridiculous.
And if we can't bring ourselves to do it for ourselves for God's sake lets at least do it for our daughters and our nieces and all the young women coming up behind us - so that maybe, just maybe the crown of Queen of Denial won't be passed down to another generation!
Carolina Herrera Will Tell You If You're Too Thin to Look Good
Go on over to Style.com, take a look at Ms. Herrera's Spring '08 RTW runway show and judge for yourself if she's just blowin' it out her butt on the skinny model issue...
Carolina Herrera Spring '08 RTW
(Okay, I'll admit that her models do have some meat on their bones - but I see her share of boney knees as well!)
But the part of the piece I found most interesting was her comment on the unthinkableness of showing the collections on "very fat" people (Tell me Carolina, what qualifies in your mind as "very fat"? A perfectly acceptable size 14 perhaps?) because women come to the shows to fantasize about the clothes they see on the runway making them look like the models.
Normally, I would blow that off as just another designer excuse - but when Stacy London of What Not To Wear fame noted that it was a true statement based on "studies" that women don't want to see the clothes on realistically sized women, well that made me pause 'cause Stacy has never come across to me as a size Nazi by any means.
So that begs the question ladies -- Is it them - or is it us? Are designers trying to foist an unrealistic image on us - or are we demanding it because we ourselves are unrealistic about what truly makes us look good? 'Cause honey, if any of us - especially we 50+ babes - are thinking that any dress ever made is going to make us look like some pre-pubescent 12 year old made up to look like an 18 year old, tottering down the runway on way too high heels, we're not just unrealistic - we're delusional!
To get right down to it - are we too cowardly to look ourselves in the mirror, take honest stock of what we really look like and have to work with today and not only work with it but demand that those who design the clothes we consider wearing work with it too? And not just demand - but give permission to designers to design and show for real women with all our curves and bumps and bones and wonderful imperfections.
Because if we are saying that's what we want, but turning our noises up when we see the clothes on the runway on real women, not children (thus giving us a real picture of what they are likely to look like on us) then we get what we deserve - unwearable clothes that make us look downright ridiculous.
And if we can't bring ourselves to do it for ourselves for God's sake lets at least do it for our daughters and our nieces and all the young women coming up behind us - so that maybe, just maybe the crown of Queen of Denial won't be passed down to another generation!
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