Comments on: The Right to Bare Arms

By: Jennie

Jennie — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:08:01 +0000

What to wear with these shoes you ask???!!! Jeans, skirts, a bath towel, They are so superfantastic that they will make anything worn with them pop out loud. Plumcake, I wear a size 8 if you need a charitable deduction for your taxes. Call it the Beautification League of the South bringing haute fashion to the Nascar country and pulling one of the under privledged fashionistas out of the dregs of polos, khakis, and sport theme wear….

By: Joan H.

Joan H. — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:25:12 +0000

1. Those shoes are so awesomely awesome, I can’t even express their awesomeness.

2. What’s so bad about prog rock? At least they sing about something other than girls they hate and/or want to have sex with. Rush has this odd science-fiction-y thing going… I like it.

By: toby Wollin

toby Wollin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:29:28 +0000

“I was at a big corporate meeting yesterday with a bunch of women who, I must say, 98% of them were wearing boring safe black suits, white shirts, black shoes.”
Doesn’t just happen at the “big corporate meetings” - I think at least a third of the female guests at my eldest daughter’s recent wedding were wearing black - and the most popular look was the aforementioned black suit - mostly with pants.
Why is this? This is because it has been drummed into women’s heads through fashion layouts etc. that black is safe; it is slimming; no one will accuse you of trying to seduce the young Assoc. VP of the Powerful Department if you keep your white shirt buttoned up. It is also boring. It is also not good for everyone, depending on their skin tone. It is also the “lazy girls’ choice” - if you are hung over, it takes no effort whatsoever to reach into the closet, pull out the hanger and throw it on. You don’t have to match anything or try to make some sort of clever collection of tweed, plaid, and plain. You don’t have to try to figure out if this blue has too much red in it to go with that other thing. It is safe. And boring. But, if you have no fashion confidence in your own style or your own selections, then I suppose it is better than showing up in khaki pants and a golf shirt(that is a combo that I would definitely outlaw - horrible on everyone). I do have black pants and black skirts - and for those, I also have a fairly complete collection of wonderful tweed, herringbone, and plaid jackets that just so happen to have black as one of the colors so that i can coordinate a zippy blouse, sweater or top with them…and thsoe are never, ever black.

By: Tk

Tk — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:20:27 +0000

class-factotum - hear hear! If heaven has no Cool Ranch Doritos, it is no heaven I’d recognize.

Flattering is not everything. There is a huge difference between wearing what you want because you love it, and wearing whatever you want because you don’t know any better or because you don’t think you deserve to look superfantastic.

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:12:17 +0000

PS I love Cool Ranch Doritos.

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:11:40 +0000

The 2% that were not, all were women of size and were rocking in good corporate garb with twists

One of my former co-workers, a secretary, was a lady of size and she always looked awesome. She had an incredible sense of style and was always perfectly, perfectly groomed, from her just-been-done hair to her fingernails. I always looked forward to seeing what she was wearing.

The female VP, on the other hand, usually looked like crap. She wore khaki slacks and a polo shirt, capris and sandals (which she had explicitly forbidden when she was VP of HR and wrote the dress code), or her Philadelphia pimp look of the leather vest with the fur-lined edges and the crushed velvet pants. For the kind of money she was making, she could have afforded other natural fibers besides leather.

By: Angel

Angel — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:54:47 +0000

Ahahaha! I

By: Kimks

Kimks — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:06:09 +0000

First off- Plum Cake you are mySuper Fantastic Blogging hero- your words of fashion wisdom and humor have made me laugh out loud and I must say, you, Twistie and Francesca totally Rock my fashion world- Love the humor, wisdom and power that comes from this blog- and to all the women who post- Rock ON!! I think it’s important in this crazy world that we figure out a way to support and uplift all women, regardless of their size, shape, color- and the women on this blog do just that. Ok enough of the love notes.
Love the shoes- have my own rocking shoe story. I was at a big corporate meeting yesterday with a bunch of women who, I must say, 98% of them were wearing boring safe black suits, white shirts, black shoes. The 2% that were not, all were women of size and were rocking in good corporate garb with twists. I had on my black suit, white shirt, but was rocking in a pair of 3 inch red patent leather pumps. I had 6 people say great shoes, one of them was the Big Wig from my office. I say Rock whatever look you want whenever you want.

By: caitlin

caitlin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:09:53 +0000

Based on the photograph alone, it appears that the soles of the shoes don’t sit flat on the ground. How does that work? They are interesting, to be sure.

By: Elizabeth K

Elizabeth K — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:31:27 +0000

awesome post.

but this….”people whose idea of heaven is a Rush album” makes me wonder, have you been talking to my boyfriend?