Fabulous Girl's Boudoir

Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Note #1 for the style-bewildered

While wardrobe diversity, within reason, is advocated by the fabulous girl, this is definitely an option, for those of you who KNOW you don't want to diversify your wardrobe. (Or if you're desperate to out of the poncho/rounded toe shoes/coral jewelry/monogram handbag hamster-ball of "fashion").

"In the late 1950's, several years before American women adopted Jacqueline Kennedy's style en masse, the New York socialite Anne Slater hit upon the look she still has today. It was based on two remarkably simple details: a brushed-back hairstyle she could manage at home and a pair of cobalt-blue tinted eyeglasses she could wear day or night, and in lieu of dangling earrings. Thus the blue cat's-eye glasses became her signature ornament. She bought 36 pairs from a Philadelphia optician {...}
But perhaps the most advantageous aspect of Mrs. Slater's look is that you can't determine her age by it. She does not look much different today than she did in a photograph taken in 1965 on a New York dance floor ... when told that five decades is a long time to hold onto one look, Mrs. Slater replied with a laugh, "I know it is, darling."
Why do the current crop of young socialites and actresses feel the need to change their look so often when most icons have been worshiped for their constancy? Referring to Paloma Picasso, Linda Wells, the editor of Allure, said, "It takes a lot more work to have such a look, but also more willingness, and that's unusual today." {...} Not surprisingly, many women with an individual look find it liberating. "It's never being in fashion or out of fashion," said Ms. Collins, {...} Rita Konig, a London-based writer, observed, "If you're not naturally beautiful, then you have to be more clever."

Does that mean Janeane Garafalo's going to be blonde forever?

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