As the holiday season approaches along with it comes a whirlwind of festive gatherings and galas. Designer Oscar de la Renta has created the perfect little black dress for any of those special occasions. Dramatic in its simple lines, this ankle- teasing, black crepe, belted sheath features beautifully bared shoulders, front and back bodice cut outs and a back-wrapped skirt. Read more…
If your idea of the perfect holiday dress is something with crinoline and silk or ribbons and bows, you may have to adjust your focus while shopping this month. Read more…
From the well-founded suspicion that society tells them they are good mothers mainly to stop them from trying their hand at anything else, feminists have tended to slap down any suggestion that women have a natural talent for mothering. They go on about jobs and abortions and orgasms, while motherhood gets associated with right-wing morality, the Virgin Mary and a craven willingness to iron shirts. Read more…
If your paramour popped The Question on Valentine’s Day, there’s a chance you’re still so swept up in the romance of being engaged that you haven’t yet started making serious wedding plans. Read more…
For the past two years, the fashion message all the way from couture on down has been short-and-narrow. Not only has the look been leggy, it’s been altogether body-conscious. Read more…
The subject is skirt lengths and, like no other subject in fashion, this one draws strong reactions. It’s an issue that sometimes transcends the question of style: the length of one’s skirt is even used as a measure of one’s character. In Europe and New York, designers are treating the subject extravagantly, cutting ground-sweeping skirts for fall. Few Canadian designers, however, have dropped their hems – and not everyone calls the trend innovation. Read more…
Skirt lengths continue to roll up and down like Venetian blinds here, until there’s no mistaking the intentions of the designers showing off their fall and winter collections. Read more…
There’s nothing on the runways here that will put anybody’s fall and winter wardrobe outside the current mode. About all any of us will need to do is shorten skirts, whether we do them ourselves or find one of that vanishing breed: the little neighborhood dressmaker. Read more…
Skirts are not only getting very short here, a lot of them are remarkably skimpy. And if the world is primed for another big fashion change, it’s all ready and waiting, as the Italian designers parade their fall and winter merchandise. Read more…
Every person, Miller theorizes, falls mostly into one of four body shapes: triangle, oval, square or circle. Certain clothes create certain silhouettes. Each body shape demands is own silhouette. A proper match is the most flattering–”harmony,” as Miller says. Read more…