Clown Painting, "Dexter", Oil on Belgian Linen 36" X 48", Copyright M-J de Mesterton 1986
November 7th, 2009
Update on leg-shortening, gut-emphasizing hip-huggers: the fashion industry, in its sullen insistence upon low-rise skirts and trousers, has finally acknowledged that they are disfiguring their adherents and turning them into short-legged freaks. But, instead of extending the fabric up to the waist, they’ve devised a ridiculous foil to balance the visual effect: six-inch heels! Podiatrists and chiropractors are laughing all the way to the bank.
~~M-J~~
July 31st, 2009
A wonderful report on an investigator, Rick Gillespie of TIGAR, who is trying to find the remains of Amelia Earhart is somewhat degraded by the female announcer’s crazy leopard print “belt”, which is wrapped around the waist of an overly-tight, yellow shirt. A looser blouse tucked-into a skirt-waist, with a tasteful, non-distracting belt, would look more professional. When one has to expend brain-cells wondering how a television news person could wear something so tacky, it detracts from the story.
Link to the Interview about Finding Amelia Earhart
July 9th, 2009: Advice to television news broadcasters and others who work at “respectable” jobs in the public eye: avoid animal print garments. For an example of this unprofessional, mixed-message style of dressing, please see Megyn Kelly of Fox News Channel, on McNair Murder/Suicide story (choose “U.S.” on left-side menu). She has worn a skin-tight, large leopard-print dress a couple of times lately, witnessed by me on their web-site videos. Besides being the ultimate in trashy designs, the dress makes her look preggers.
May, 2009: Hip huggers, no tie, tiny jacket; spaced-out bangles on arm, sandals with no stockings–the very antithesis of elegance. No more ridiculous comparisons to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, s’il vous plait!
How Not to Dress in Manhattan on a Saturday Night: the Obamas (photo: Reuters)
March 26th, 2009
Fashion-Victim Favorites
Photo has disappeared; picture a woman with low-rise, highwater jeans.
The Antithesis of Elegance, available for less than $200.00!
Make your gut prominent while shortening your legs. Hurry, they’re going fast!
March 14th Le Boulevardier just sent me this, saying “Check out this tragic lineup o’tarts:”Slop-Tarts
March 7th Stripes are “In” for Spring and Summer?
Here is the absurd article I found by accident–and no, if stripes “don’t work for you”–don’t wear them! Letting fashion dictate what you wear is ridiculous, and do not let the “French sailor” reference influence you. No tasteful French person would be caught dead in stripes.
I can think of a few people who ought to be wearing stripes: Bernie Madoff, who made off with billions of other people’s money; Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), for his complicity in the mortgage mess and resultant world financial meltdown; Franklin Raines of Freddie Mac; former HUD secretary Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), who pushed the no-document loans into fruition, heedless of the disastrous consequences; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who rushed the pork-laden, phony “stimulus” bill through in order to get to Europe to receive her little award, just in time for Fashion Week in London, and who insisted that the American public pay for her super-sized jet because she didn’t want to be “inconvenienced” stopping for fuel between California and Washington D.C…..
Low-Rise Clothes: Time for an Uprising~~Copyright M-J de Mesterton; February 23rd, 2009
The Plumber’s Crack is Back–and It’s Not Going Away!
Seen in Elle Magazine: it’s A belt*
For those willing fashion-victims who don’t realize that what keeps pants and skirts up are hips, there is the illiterately* labeled, “it’s A belt”. It is a rubbery band that one attaches to her skin to keep low-rise pants from falling down. If they actually wore their pants, slacks, trousers and skirts where they belong, on the waist, this idiotic fashion contraption would not have been invented. But, fashion-victims are stubborn, and despite all the examples, explanations and exhortations from Elegant Survival in the past three years, they persist in wearing disfiguring styles sans waist.
*Note that the “a” is erroneously capitalized, while the “i” is left lower-case.
~~Copyright M-J de Mesterton, 2009
Ralph Lauren: the Wal-Mart of High Fashion?
I remember walking into the Madison Avenue Flagship store of Ralph Lauren back in the 1980s, and being appalled because almost everything I looked at was made in Malaysia. Now that his company has expanded to include household accents, furniture and textiles of all sorts, made in China and God knows where else, the same crowd that excoriates Wal-Mart sees no problem supporting Ralph Lauren’s shops. Irony abounds in the world of fashion, so though I am not surprised at this hypocrisy, I find it absurd.
~~Copyright M-J de Mesterton, 2009
Brief, Baffling Bits
Elle Subscription Cover January 2009
Photographers and cameras: they can be your friend or your enemy!
- Beyoncé, January 2009 Subscription of Elle Magazine Cover
Go, Jessica! My How You’ve Grown, into a Real Woman!
Actress and singer, Jessica Simpson is looking swell these days. No, NOT swollen, as some catty, vicious critics have said. She has an hourglass figure now, leaving the stick-legs and out-of-proportion chest, real or otherwise, behind.
Her behind looks perfect, too. The culture conveniently craps on anorexia, but continues to promote it apace. What’s wrong with this picture? Oh, and Jessica Simpson has chosen to wear regular jeans that actually come up to the waist! For that tasteful choice, she was reprimanded in the shallow, simplistic, marching-in-lockstep-with-brains-on-pause fashion press. Sour grapes? It sure sounds like it to me!
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