So, Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), scored the same dress Melania Trump wore to give her address to the RNC, and Beatty wore it to give her address to the DNC ( Read more... )

Someone has invented a new privacy product, a flash-photograph-resistant scarf: The ISHU scarf is made of a special fabric (enhanced with thousands of nano-spherical crystals) that reflects light back into a camera, basically rendering all flash photography useless.
The idea is that you wear it near your face, and when a flash goes off, it reflects ( Read more... )

(h/t to skibbley)

Kreuzbach10 is an indiegogo project to make a line of classic men's wear shirts cut for women's bodies. From their page: We don't like to say we make women's shirts, because that makes us sound like a lot of other labels who take a button up shirt, feminize it with girly colours and patterns and maybe even add some frilly bits then ( Read more... )

Prada goes steampunk.ETA: Okay, yes, there is much male pulchritude here. But I brought it up because of the delicious tail-waving-the-dog of what amounts to a SF cosplay movement influencing haut couture. Not that designers haven't always drawn from everywhere and anything they see, it's just that I'm bemused that steampunk managed to break into ( Read more... )

I am emotionally coming to terms with the facts that I will probably neither never fit again in these clothes nor have occasion to try to. I have some old and somewhat worn but somewhat splufty business-formal clothing that fit me when I was a "size 8". I gather maybe sizing has changed since then? I don't know if a size 8 is still a size 8, ( Read more... )

This is a question for Boston-local customers of women's jewelry ( Read more... )

My Pennsic hat, after approximately two decades of loyal service, fell apart. Decelles, Burlington Coat Factory, and Filene's Basement are all out of business. I have no idea what sort of hat I desire, save that it be fun and funky, yet versatile enough not to look too eccentric worn w/ a t-shirt, jeans and sneakers, and protect my (black!) hair ( Read more... )

Apparently, I'm still traumatized by the closing of Filene's Basement ( Read more... )