fashion
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Coronavirus vs. Hipster Beards
Will full beards be the next casualty of the coronavirus? Check out the CDC’s guide to respirator-friendly facial hair styles: Tip from Drudge, who wouldn’t know a permalink if it bit him on the butt. Read more
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Cultural Appropriation for Me, Not for Thee
So some woke Chino-American gets his knickers in a twist because a Caucasian young lady wore a cheongsam as a prom dress. But somehow, I don’t think he had a problem with something like this: To me, women of color wearing Daisy Dukes is an especially un-woke cultural appropriation, since her TV brothers drove around Read more
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Making America GLAMOROUS Again
Since Christmas, the oh-so-woke fashion and lifestyle press has aggressively ignored first lady Melania Trump. Unlike her husband, she doesn’t bluster, tweet, or speechify; instead she speaks in the language of fashion. For French President Macron’s state visit, she wore this: Impossible to be ignored. The Washington Post’s Robin Givhan writes On these official occasions, Read more
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Silicon Valley meets the Urban Chicken Movement…
…and does it in style. It’s not uncommon here to see chickens roaming in their owners’ homes or even roosting in bedrooms, often with diapers on, according to Leslie Citroen, 54, one of the Bay Area’s most sought after “chicken whisperers,” who does everything from selling upscale chickens and building coops to providing consultation to Read more
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“I can’t pick out a nail polish now without a pendulum!”
Call me old-fashioned, but I think I can skip a $1500 shamanic closet cleanse. I’ll stick with the milk crate I toss my gently-(ab)used and out-of-date clothes into. I’m so square. Tip from Ed Driscoll, trying to make sense in a world gone mad, at the Instapundit. Read more
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Maybe clothes DO make the man
Here’s a school program that’s so off-the wall it might actually make a difference: providing washing machines in public schools. It’s early days, with little data collected, but compared to Michelle O’s disastrous school lunch madness, it’s an intriguing experiment with potentially outsize benefits. Virginia Postrel might have some insight into ideas like this. Tip Read more
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Summer Fashion Statements
This one comes with its own explanation: (Tip from Happy Acres) while this one defies explanation. I inadvertently caught Oprah on the Letterman Show a few nights back, and she was wearing that dress. Doesn’t she own a mirror? (Tip from American Digest) Read more
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Don’t stand next to me kid, ya make me look bad
I just read what’s got to be the hoot of the month, Abercrombie and Fitch–once THE outfitter, but now a purveyor of wrinkled sportswear befitting a bag lady–is offering to PAY cast members of “Jersey Shore” to NOT wear their products. Hey, you don’t have to be a doofus from Jersey to know that money Read more
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Got the blues? Maybe you need…
…a yellow ukelele and some happy feet. Beats the Hell out of all this snark and evasion we’re getting from our Intellectual Betters, and all that drab crap the Fashionistas are hawking. Tip from The Parkway Rest Stop. Read more
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Aieee! My eyes!
If Brooks Brothers’ Spring Collection is to be believed, the Metrosexual* is back: What’s really scary is that I found Mr Pinky Pants in an ad on National Review Online! Who knew they swung that way? *that’s PC-speak for “ghey.” Read more
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