They just announced Madonna will be coming to Vancouver. Tickets go on sale Monday. I have already emailed my hubbie the info... a Valentine's Day hint. Madonna has always been someone people either love or hate. 40+Style blogged a great piece this week about Madonna and How We are Supposed to Age. Give it a [...]
I spent last night scouring old 1990s photos looking for shots of me wearing my dark green Dr Martens. I didn't find any good photos, but I had a great trip down memory lane. Note, I said no good photos. I found a few shots from a vacation I took with a friend down to [...]
In honour of Prince's concert in Vancouver tonight I am re-posting a Fashion Flashback Friday from 2010. A Flashback to a Fashion Flashback or something like that. Anyways, I'm jealous of all who have tix for tonight's concert. Anyone who wants to join an impromptu Prince dance party at my house tonight let me know. [...]
I'm going to attempt a theme this week and feature a number of great fall items from local Vancouver designers. I know everyone else has been talking fall trends for weeks already. While September might be back-to-school, I don't really start pulling out my fall/winter wardrobe until after Thanksgiving. And then there was that week of [...]
I'm not sure why but last Friday I felt a bit like a Charlie perfume ad. For those of us of a certain age we remember Shelley Hack, before she became an angel, as the model in the Charlie perfume ads. There were apparently other women who did Charlie ads, but I always think of [...]
One of the good things about the fashion seasons is you can see what is going to be on trend for fall before you start buying your spring clothes. It lets you know which silhouettes are going to be around for a while - well at least 2 seasons. I'll leave the many downsides to the [...]
It was just a short year ago that I spent 13 days, for about 12 hours a day, wearing a smurf blue uniform. If you watched the Vancouver Olympics on TV the smurfs were everywhere in the background. For those attending the Olympics you couldn't escape us. So the question is, when you've worn something [...]
When I think big shoulders, long sleeve, sequined gowns I think about Dynasty. The ultimate in 1980s luxury and sequins. Powered by their shoulder pads these women fought each other for power and their men. Krystle Carrington (the sweet one with the great left hook) was so well known for the long sleeve, shoulder pad, [...]
I recently saw a comment from a young blogger that her generation is more creative or interested in unique individual fashion items than in the past. I disagree. I believe each generation is looking for their own unique stamp. It is certainly true of me when I was in high school in the 80s. In High school [...]
Way back in 1984 there was a little movie with Demi Moore called No Small Affair. It was the movie that is said to have launched Jon Cryer, Tim Robbins and Jennifer Tillys' careers. It isn't talked about much anymore (probably because it really wasn't that great a movie), but it was my first view into the [...]
