Fashion
I know it’s politically incorrect to comment negatively on how someone else chooses to dress, but have you visited a mall or a restaurant lately? Have you seen what people are wearing in public? Sports bras with biker shorts and bedroom slippers are just too much for this old boomer to let pass without comment. Please forgive me but I am going to express a…
To be completely honest, I wasn’t sure I would like Jeanne Beker’s new book My Heart On My Sleeve: Stories From a Life Well Worn—but it surprised me and I did. Born in Toronto to Holocaust survivors, Beker loved acting, dancing, and dressing up in the fashions conceived and created with the help of her mother’s sewing skills and displayed an interest in theatrical arts…
We all remember the famous scene with Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany’s all those years ago when they ventured into the exclusive Tiffany’s jewelry store in New York City to buy something special. With only $10.00 to spend they first rejected a sterling silver telephone dialler for $6.75 (in 2024 that would be a steal for sterling but in retrospect a…
Every so often we stumble across a book that offers total escapism. Jamie Catt Callan’s Ooh La La! French Women’s Secrets to Feeling Beautiful Every Day offers exactly that experience. At less than two hundred pages the book is a quick read and transported me on a mini excursion to Paris and Normandy. Callan’s intentions when she wrote the book were noble. Seeking to enlighten…
Can it be true? Is it so? According to The New York Times and various other media sources, Baby Boomers are being displaced by an even larger demographic—millennials born in the brief 1990-91 blip. Yep. They’ve surpassed us in the race to be the biggest, baddest, and most influential group of people to hit the economic market since, well, baby boomers. This sub-genre known as Peak…
It was Francesca’s red shoes that got the ball rolling. Francesca is an old friend of my friend Perry, and she lives in England. When she emailed Perry a picture of some outrageous red shoes she wore more than fifty years ago that she found in her attic, it set off a chain reaction of remembering what we wore back then. Perry sent the picture…
