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The Lost Art of Dressing Up

How do you feel about clothing? Is it just something utilitarian, or is it part of your creative expression? Has your attitude towards clothing changed over the years? When was the last time you dressed up for fun? After reading Jyllian’s post Gekommen um zu bleiben , I decided to blog about a topic I’ve pondered for years: the lost art of dressing up. As Jyllian puts it: “I want to wear kitten heels, a bob haircut , flapper dress and carry a small jeweled purse whilst drinking champagne and speaking barbs politely. Sigh. Why isn’t life like this?” Exactly!…

Backyard Travel: Nguyen Loi Oriental Supermarket

When you are in Texas, it’s pretty hard to forget that you are in Texas. Everywhere you look there are businesses with “Lone Star” in their name, Texas flags proudly flying, and fancy pick-up trucks with bumper stickers proclaiming great things about the state. One of my favorite things about Texas, in fact, is its strong sense of identity. Texas is like a loud-mouthed, opinionated friend you don’t always agree with, but you love to hang out with, anyway. A couple days ago, however, it felt like I stepped out of Texas and into another country. My fiance and I…

Which aisle carries the girl panties for men?

Got a women’s fashion catalog in the mail today that features a ‘boyfriend couture’ section. This is clothing modeled after men’s wear, stuff like: boyfriend jeans, boyfriend sweaters, and a whole bunch of boyfriend T shirts. I guess it all springs from the tendency chicks have of wearing their mate’s clothing. You know, like that scene in so many rom coms, when the girl walks in the room wearing her boyfriend’s shirt – and little else. (Here’s a cute one of Audrey Hepburn, for instance.) Isn’t it funny how females in our culture can cross-dress and no one bats an…

What exactly is your culture?

New kids on the blog: A fun part of NaBloPoMo is making a daily cruise of the NaBloPoMo November blog roll to find new web sites to read.  One interesting blog I found this year is called In An Opal-Hearted Country and is written by an American expat living in Australia who signs her posts, “C. in Oz.” In her recent entry, Mr. Ed and Other Things I Learned From the Melbourne Cup, C. discusses how living in another country has made her think about the concept of culture. After hearing Christian Lander from Stuff White People Like speak, C.…