Topic: clothing

Supposedly Anna Wintour Has Banned Designers From Dressing Ann Romney

Supposedly Anna Wintour Has Banned Designers From Dressing Ann Romney

Wait, is that… right? Also, how is Anna Wintour the Queen of the Empire of Fashion?

I mean, by editing Vogue, but I would think that does not mean that you can whimsically issue bans on Ann Romney like some 80 year old billionaire matriarch whispering to the maitre d at Michael’s that Lindsay Lohan should not be allowed in. I say this like this is something I have witnessed. For the record, I never saw Brooke Astor place a Michael’s ban on Lindsay Lohan. It seems unlikely Lindsay Lohan goes to Michael’s. Pretty sure that hit was in regard to Lavo. More »

New Blog Shows Women In What They Were Wearing When Assaulted

New Blog Shows Women In What They Were Wearing When Assaulted

Much has been made of a woman’s responsibility to protect herself from sexual harassment and/or assault by not dressing too provocatively. In fact, when I posted an amusing infographic on the actual ways to prevent rape a while back, more than one commenter got all snippy, saying that, like it or not, a woman “in reasonably decent shape and with reasonably good looks” is obviously much more likely to be targeted while looking “slutty and sexually seductive” than while wearing “ratty jeans, greasy hair,” etc., and that anyone who thinks any different “is just deluding themselves (to a ridiculous and laughable degree).” Guess what, commenter? That is bullshit. More »

Star Trek: The Next Generation Of Your Closet

Star Trek: The Next Generation Of Your Closet

You know that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where it turns out that Tasha Yar, who died in the first season, had a half-Romulan daughter named Sela due to some fancy footwork involving time travel? You don’t?? Watch it. Right now. I’ll wait, it’s cool.

Ok. Now: didn’t Denise Crosby look amazing in that Romulan military jacket?!?! Don’t you want to copy her style? The answer is yes, she did. And yes, you do. And I will help you with a few suggestions that might work here on Earth. More »

Ms. Frizzle Will Teach For Food

Ms. Frizzle Will Teach For Food

1) Ms. Frizzle from The Magic School Bus was a style icon of our childhood

2) this is performance art, right? Not just a homeless person who likes outfits with star prints? I’ll feel terrible if I’m just posting a picture of an eccentrically garbed homeless person in an exploitative manner

3) Was this a thing on the Magic School Bus? Was there ever an episode where we find out Ms. Frizzle is homeless? Or is it subtly implied? Is it going to be like watching David the Gnome as an adult and realizing that the gnomes are all socialists? I don’t know!

4) Oh, I get it. Teachers are underpaid.

- World Shaker More »