A selective editorial on style
Looking back, moving forward?
Edited by: Florrie Clarke of Intrinsically Florrie.
This week’s links bound across time as we go from the first incarnations of the handbag, to both the glamour and reality of the mid-20th Century and the modern phenomenon of online shopping. And when, in all this, will women be happy with their bodies? Debenhams may now be using unretouched images alongside the photoshopped, but the Daily Mail and the UK’s new equalities minister have decreed a new, and for a lot of us unattainable, body shape for us to aim for.
Links à la Mode: July 29th
- Beyond Fabric: A thought on online shopping – is it worth building your wardrobe online?
- Blah Blah Becky: LOVING iconic British brand Whistles’ AW10/FW10 lookbook
- Beautifully Invisible: 10 curvy women – past and present – who are the epitome of sexy.
- Dramatis Personae: Ch-Cha-Chain- Coveting & Craving Chain Jewelry
- Independent Fashion Bloggers: Fair Compensation Manifesto
- Intrinsically Florrie: Looking to the French pâtisserie Ladurée for design inspiration.
- Oranges and Apple: On glamorising vintage life
- Scene On the Street: NYC: Mod Scientist – Scene On the Street
- The Coveted: American Living $250 Gift Card Giveaway
- The Demoiselles: UK department store shuns retouching…why can’t we live in the UK?
- The Fashion Police: Why size should never be a fashion statement
