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Disco? Dead? Nah.
posted by Casey
Disco is not dead, which you know for a fact if you saw the So You Think You Can Dance Season 8 finale by power duo Melanie Moore and Marko Germar. So it’s time to ‘fess up, sister sister. You’re an uber-Fan of Disco. You secretly yearn to return to that drawer-full of shoulder pads and 1970s-vintage leg warmers in blinding neon. The stretch pants that looked more like we painted them on than zipped them up. My faves were the electric blue ones –yes, Bedazzled– and a pair of bright metallic purple. Size 6. Yeah, it’s been that long. You believe the doors to Studio 64 are still open, somehow, somewhere....
Fame-Weary Kids
posted by Casey
I read People magazine every week. Each issue has a section near the front called StarTracks. Stars with families, latest heart-throbs, siblings, parental units, on vacation, out shopping, at the beach, in the jungle, on safari, in the backyard, on the road, in parades, shirtless, sleeveless,...
Fashion Yeti
posted by Casey
“I’ll be wearing a pink plaid tankini to cousin Jane’s wedding at St. Somebody-or-Nuther cathedral. These new silver flip-flops match my beach bag!” says the Fashion Yeti. A Fashion Yeti’s tendency toward Casual Outrageous is not a personal style. It’s not...
Vanity Sizing Snark
posted by Casey
Warning: If you’re sensitive to harsh language, industrial-grade criticism, defiant thought, or consumer truth-speaking, skip this post. If you’re a clothing merchant, vendor or designer who supports deceptive labeling and vanity sizing, sit down. This is gonna hurt. [ SMACK • SMACK • SMACK ] Just how stupid do they think we are? Here’s why I’m p*ssed. While searching for plus size apparel for my plus size clients, I keep colliding with merchants with anti-plus-size vanity sizing tactics. Searching for 18W, 20W, 2X, XXL yields the expected results but excludes stores that carry many very desirable plus size...
Hospital Fashion Sna...
posted by Casey
Where’s the Snark!? I feel your pain. Miss me? I sure miss you! Your friendly neighborhood snarkonista has been up to her way-too-swollen kneecaps in frenetic RL stuff including house-hunting, doctor visits and an unwelcome foray to the emergency room. Focus on offline activities has...
Monday Morning Snarkerback
posted by Casey
Snark... It’s Monday. Like some other curmudgeons and sideline savants, I do my best snarking on Mondays. I get the whole weekend to build up a head of steam over some little nitpickery that has been eating at me. Then, come Monday, ka-BLOOOEY. Snark attack. Today’s Snark Attack is the much-ado-about-none-of-our-business made over LeAnn Rimes weight, as honked in People Magazine’s SCOOP section of June 20, 2011 (I will never understand their dates, as this issue has been in my hands for two weeks). A fan tweeted that she looked “scary skinny” in her bikini worn during her beach excursion with...
Major Shoe Crush. SR...
posted by Casey
Get Bookmarked: Milk and Honey Shoes If I were a 15-year-old girl, right about now I’d be shrieking as if Justin Bieber just walked into the room. { bay-bee bay-bee bay-be OH OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! } or something like that. If I shriek at my age, it better be about a dragon...
You Know: OLD Classi...
posted by Casey
A young lady was complaining about apparel, fashion and style. She is convinced that style is dictated by the fashion industry. Style is so difficult to follow because she has to buy All New Stuff so often. And she doesn’t DARE wear the Old Stuff since it’s So Last Season. (The...
If the Spam FitsR...
posted by Casey
I love Andy Rooney. He’s 92 years old with an attitude that won’t quit. A curmudgeon in the most curmudgeon’y sense of the word. He speaks his mind and often everybody else’s, and the crowd cheers “YEAH! GO ANDY!” He’s my hero. So you’ll...
Snark Attack
posted by Casey
I’ve been thinking about this since The Wedding. It took guts for Beatrice to wear the hat. It took nerve. It took more than nerve. Surely on some level she knew that this millinery malfunction, this “hatastrophe,” was going to get some attention, some fingers pointed in her...
Royal Wedding No-no
posted by Casey
No. No-no no. Negative. No. No. No. NO no no nono. No. No. Nyet. ¡No! NoNoNoNoNo. No. Nein. No. No no no. No. No. No. No. No. NO. No. Negatory. No. Nope. no. No. No. NO. No. NO no NO no....
Fe Fi Faux Fum
posted by Casey
How gullible do they think we are? Do they believe we can’t tell the difference between Prada and Praba? That we won’t grok that Givenchee? Marc Jakobs? Burburry? And that Channel No. 9? Eau dear. I’m not talking about designer knock-offs. That’s an entirely different...
