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If that’s a gagging order…?
QFD: Quelle Fashion Disaster
Poor old Heather Mills emerged from court today wearing a cobbled-together outfit: some kind of suit made from remnants of other clothing. She’s reduced to sewing together pieces of her old clothes because she’s been left penniless by her divorce settlement. She gets to keep the family caravan in Wales and Evil [...]
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Further to my ever-popular post on 10 Things I Hate About You, here is the long-overdue slideshow companion.
This focuses on the technical brilliance of the opening sequence, with its extended opening crane shot (an homage to Orson Welles, perhaps), and lengthy and complex steadicam shots, all of which pack 10lbs of storytelling into a 1lb [...]
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Walk this Way
“Nothing left to the imagination.”
It all dates back to when I hit puberty. I’ve been asked to clarify a certain matter concerning men’s undergarmentry, so here is a warning: what you are about to read may contain explicit reference to the male bollock.
I was svelte and fit and I could run and run and run. [...]
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Sylvanian Mafia Wedding
My two girls are crazy on the Sylvanian Families, and over this birthday and Saturnalia season, we’ve been inundated with various bits and pieces: the canal boat, the gypsy caravan (the gypsies are portrayed as badgers, which is interesting), the park, the conservatory, and – my personal favourite – the Sylvanian Mafia Wedding, complete with [...]
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Sitting on the Dockers of eBay
I am wearing my Dockers. Two years ago, in Costco, I bought two pairs of Dockers, cheap, but I bought the wrong size (the “optimistic” size) and because I couldn’t be arsed to drive back to Costco and return them, they’ve been languishing, unworn, in my wardrobe. If I had a wardrobe.
But this morning, pondering [...]
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Mid-Life Crisis Averted
I’ll tell you what, that Party Shuffle feature in iTunes is freaking irritating, isn’t it? What on earth? It’s as if the prop-heads who programmed it were determined to “prove” to us plebs what random really means. Which is to say, it doesn’t fit any normal person’s definition of random at all.
This afternoon, I’ve had [...]
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Tags: Designerwear
Nostalgia Envy
I was just watching that Paul Weller docu on BBC2 and found myself wishing wistfully that I’d liked him more. Then I would have really enjoyed it. Problem was, there was always something else I was into at the time.
When The Jam were in their pomp, I was at school. There were any number of [...]
Filed under: Culture, Music, Nostalgia, Television, clothes, heroes, narcissism, summer | 3 Comments
Photo by Lidarose
I’m beginning to wonder whether the fashion retail industry isn’t responsible for Seasonal Affective Disorder (or SAD). I’ve been hearing on the business news how they’ve been DYING since August for some colder weather, to get people into the shops to look at the autumn/winter collections. In other words, for their convenience and [...]
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Tags: Designerwear, Suits
Vulgar Tat and other questions
“what is that colour”
Is it red?
male models with their girlfriends
They’re not really their girlfriends.
milton keynes pipe tobacco
I believe there’s a tobacconist in Down’s Barn
what to wear for trip to italy, france,
The small Département of Italy in Northern France is very cold, even at this time of year, so wrap up warm
country songs about being [...]
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Short of inspiration, I turn to the lovely searches.
Many people share my long-ago yearning for a box of Weekend and/or Good News Chocolates, though to the the person who searched for rowntrees box of weekend, I say: Mackintosh. Don’t forget your chocolate heritage. I passed a warehouse in Bletchley the other day that said “Cadbury’s [...]
Filed under: Socks, ambitions, ambitions in life, clothes, notes and queries, searches | 1 Comment
Tags: Suits
