A smile is the prettiest thing you can wear.
Actually I think it’s more accurate to say that a genuine smile is the prettiest thing you can wear!
In a study published in the Academy of Management Journal last year, scientists tracked bus drivers, who smile at a whole bunch of people every day. It turns out that when they were “fake smiling” their moods deteriorated, but when…
Trompe l’oeil is French for “deceive the eye” and refers to an art technique that can create optical illusions that appear very realistic. But the idea of trompe l’oeil isn’t only applied to art. It also finds its way into fashion.
Fashion, by nature, is often used to “deceive the eye” with prescriptions for looking taller, thinner, or more proportional by wearing stripes or wider belts or smaller…
Long before upcycling was a word, Will Hardy was salvaging material from the nose cones of damaged WWII airplanes and turning it into magnificent handbags.
Soon Lucite, Dupont’s trade name for acrylic resin, became a popular material of choice for a host of handbag manufacturers who produced plastic handbags that were dotted with rhinestones, glittered with confetti or designed to appear as basketweave fabric.
Why women even embraced…
In the 1964 court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart declared his now-famous definition of pornography: I know it when I see it.
The same could be said about kitsch.
Look up definitions of the word and you’ll find adjectives like tawdry, undiscriminating, inferior, or tasteless.
But recently when I was asked to describe the types of vintage items I look to acquire, I naturally…
What’s living at the bottom of YOUR handbag?
Today’s LA Times reports that a Georgia woman recently decided to clean out her purse and discovered an old lottery ticket worth $189,302 hiding out down there!
And while I can’t promise that cleaning out your own handbag would be as exciting as this, I can promise that taking five minutes today to remove all the old receipts, gum wrappers,…
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