Fashion Police: Boho Chic vs. Manic Pixie Dream Girl Granny Chic

[purejuice]

I have a deep, deep, Boho streak which would have me dressed in lacy white ruffled cotton petticoats, bright colored prairie skirts, rose-embroidered off-the-shoulder peasant blouses and buckskin fringe, with orange and magenta embroidered touches, perhaps on the handknitted stockings, from the Estonian crafters on the island of Muhu, Frida Kahlo

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[dabroots]

I recall being excited when it was rumored that Princess Caroline might enroll at University of Illinois about 35 years ago, when I was attending that school. Alas, she for some reason opted instead for the Sorbonne.

[purejuice]

this is s, seymour, the lingerie model/groupie. princess s. of monaco has aged terrifyingly, and is the poster hag for not tanning and not smoking.
http://www.tmz.com/2007/11/22/her-not-so-serene-highness/

[franklanguage]

So much for not tanning and not smoking!

[purejuice]

i suspect there's prolly other substances at work there too.

[fj]

Actually, if Beard walked down the street in a prairie skirt, people would think she was a US tourist or needed to be pointed back to Portobello Market. She is thoroughly visually unremarkable in London, which made Gill's review even more--I wanted to say 'remarkable' but I am ending up with 'stupid'.

[purejuice]

she does have that bite me look The Parker Bowles carries off with such success.

i do think gill is a loon -- a rupert hit man.

[sandor_baci]

"Visually unremarkable" in London? Well, no. Not to me; because of her age. In a younger woman, costume and trend. In Beard, defiance.

Why do many older women cut their hair short?

[purejuice]

two reasons -- to mortify the vanity; or, second, to avoid having long droopy hair accentuate your long droopy eyelids, jaw, and....what have you. The Parker Bowles carefully maintains the farrah fawcett feathers with which HRH fell in love so very long ago. but the idea is also that upward pointing hair gives your face a lift.

[villagecharm]

Oh God, A.A. Gill is horrific. I mean, ladies and gentlemen:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/26/aa-gill-shot-baboon

[purejuice]

he really is atrocious.