Many people fall off the new year’s resolutions wagon by this second week in January, so along that spirit, in today’s FIMTSO episode, I’m cheating a little bit by featuring an item that’s new to my closet. Today’s test item is the something-something I alluded to at the end of the last blog’s entry. But I know that if you …
One Sick LBD
I still have to blog about the train trip I just took with my parents as well as finish recounting the adventure I had with my Belgian visitors before Christmas. But today, what say we take a fashion break because I need to vent about a 5-figure dress that I tried on at the store. Did I just get your …
Happy New Year From The 4/18 Club
While I’m preparing my house for another family celebration, my niece Lil A has been busy carrying on the fashionista gene. I’d mentioned before that we share the same birthday (hence, the “4/18 Club”), but as she’s developing her personality, it seems that we have a lot more in common than a mere date. If that first photo does not …
Fashion Indigestion
It started with that photo above, which led to a trunk show months ago where I pawed the supple, nubby leather and drooled over the bag. To be honest, I didn’t remember all that much about the bag after I left the viewing but the leather definitely made an impression on me. It was not smooth lambskin like in the …
Diary Of A Mad Boxer
For some of us, Boxing Day is a secular holiday that falls on the day after Christmas. It may (depending on your employer) buy you an extra day off at work to spend more time with family and friends. Or in my case, with strangers, all of whom afflicted with the same shopping addiction in varying degrees of seriousness. And …