Topic: Wear

What Are You Wearing To Vote?

What Are You Wearing To Vote?

I want you to know I spent the morning obsessing over this.
I normally wear dresses – because I’m not a farmer – but I thought, if I show up in some sort of shift dress and pearls like I wear every day, people are going to think I am voting for Mitt Romney. I live in New York. It’s possible that they would just turn on me, like in The Bacchae. More importantly, I was not going to stand there in line for an hour or however long it takes with people thinking I was voting Romney. I just wouldn’t. I wouldn’t even if I was voting for Romney. More »

Shopping Guide : What Do Spinsters Wear?

Shopping Guide : What Do Spinsters Wear?
These glasses
Anne Bancroft's Miss Havisham
Pearls
And you'll need something to gesture with!
Miss Marple

Upon seeing these stills of Helena Bonham Carter playing Miss Havisham in the upcoming version of Great Expectations, we realized that Miss Havisham really defined the spinster uniform which is “a decaying wedding gown.” But what if you find decaying wedding gowns unwieldy? What if white is a bad color on you? Can you still be a spinster and teach your young ward to break hearts to ashes? You bet you can! We have some ideas on alternative outfits right here. More »