I am 100% sold. Okay, more accurately and a little less gushingly: I’m about 95% sold. There are a few drawbacks, but they’re pretty minor, and the advantages outweigh the drawbacks… in much the same way that the Brooklyn Bridge outweighs a potato chip. I’m talking about shellacs, the new long-lasting manicure technique. I got [...]

Fashion and style as you get older. Damn, is that a big, interesting topic. For this week’s Fashion Friday, I want to give a quick shout-out to an excellent fashion blog I’m very fond of: Advanced Style. It’s a blog devoted entirely to the topic of stylish older people. Classy, playful, put-together, exuberant, sensual, elegant… [...]

Why are so many women who care about fashion and style so fascinated by shoes? In last week’s Fashion Friday, I posted a picture of a plaque on Boston’s Freedom Trail, commemorating the moment Christian evangelist D.L. Moody found God in a shoe store. I posted this with a series of snarky comments, including “Religious [...]

When I was a kid, I used to play dress-up make-believe with my friends Deeda and Susie. When all three of us played together, Deeda and Susie would typically get into a fight about who got to be the princess and who had to be the queen. But when it was just two of us [...]

I was fretting to Ingrid the other day about whether black and white prints were becoming a cliche. I freaking love black and white prints, but I’m starting to see them everywhere, and I was fretting that five or ten years from now, they’d be like bell bottoms from the ’70s or shoulder pads from [...]

When the original conversation in this blog about fashion and style went south, I had two emotional reactions. The first was to want to crawl into a hole and hide; to think, “I never ever want to write about this topic again, it makes people hate me, I clearly can’t write about it without having [...]