Dear fashion designers,

Please stop putting back pockets on jeans below the butt.

We've discussed this before. I've pointed out how ridiculous it looks for someone to have her back pockets halfway down her thighs as if her butt were sliding off. You are creating the illusion of a saggy butt, which absolutely no culture anywhere has ever deemed ( Read more... )

According to the NYT, younger women are dyeing their hair grey. Not overall, blue-haired-old-lady grey, but definitely grey (and white).

A professor Weitz of Arizona State university "suggested that to dye one’s hair gray is to flout one of fashion’s last taboos." I'll go with that. It makes sense. However, then she said something idiotic:For a 16 ( Read more... )

According to the NY Times, men's fashion is going steadily back to the late Victorian era. (In a good way. The hipster guys are, apparently, going in for ultra-retro looks, and the fashion designers are following--or leading--gleefully. As long as they don't bring back women's corsets, I'm all for it ( Read more... )

I've decided to use subject lines as much as possible, but I suck at them. Kind of like I suck at coming up with titles.

Thing 1: This morning I observed a young woman with words printed across her butt. Now, aside from my reaction of, "Isn't that trend over? That's so 1995," I consciously noticed something that had been poking at my backbrain for ( Read more... )

A community in Florida banned the saggy-pants look, and the first cases are coming up for trial.I don't understand the ban. Sure, it's a hideous look. It's ridiculous. It's stupid. I always have to restrain the urge to pants these guys, just because it would be sooooo easy ( Read more... )

I am sitting here, eating black cherry preserves while wearing a white shirt.

Muah ha ha ha ha! I mock you, gods of fate, chance, and sartorial dignity!

( a wee bit o' ranting about clothing woes )