High Fashion, Average Woman

From the blogs

• Beautiful Women Over 40: Salma Hayek, 45 makes the cover of Lucky Magazine

  I was sooo happy when I received my May issue of Lucky with Salma Hayek on the cover!    The shopping-and-fashion mag tends to have lots of under 35 starlets from both TV and movies on the cover, many of them I’m either unfamiliar with or just don’t care about.  But Hayek’s life, how she’s [...]

• Don’t hate Samantha Brick because she’s beautiful (but you might hate her for writing about it…)

  I found out about this extraordinary little article with the overly-long headline–There are downsides to looking this pretty’: Why women hate me for being beautiful–by British journalist Samantha Brick through some friends on Facebook.  My reaction to the article was “wow, that’s a ridiculous, trite and mediocre article,” but their reaction, and the reactions of [...]

• Celebrate National Cleavage Day!

  In case you didn’t know, or didn’t hear about it yet from your buddies on Facebook, today is National Cleavage Day!  According to the good folks at Wikipedia (who know about all these obscure little “days” here and there) NCD started in South Africa in 2002,  by bra manufacturer Wonderbra, in conjunction with Cosmopolitan magazine [...]

• What is Female Beauty? : Transgendered Beauty Queen disqualified from Miss Universe Canada

  UPDATE: As of April 2, 2012 the Trump Organization has reversed its decision and will allow Jenna Talackova to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant. Jenna Talackova “knew” she was a girl at age 4, even though she was in a boy’s body.  By the age of 19, she’d undergone gender reassignment surgery.  Shortly [...]

• Average Woman Looks at Springtime Shoes (and what they say about you)

  Spring is here!  The weather’s getting warmer, the trees are budding and the forsythia is in bloom!  Which means it’s time to put away the suede shooties and shearling booties (mostly) and start thinking pedicures and peep-toe pumps.  That is, if it doesn’t snow the first week of April…. On the Spring 2012 Runways we [...]