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The New Shoe
I haven’t really fallen in love with shoes since this glorious pair of Roksanda heels I bought in July: either I’m becoming more restrained or this was simply a very tough act to follow. I’m willing to bet it’s the latter, I don’t really see that restraint t..
Gin in Teacups and Leaves on the Lawn
I’m not the world’s biggest Pete Doherty fan and quite frankly don’t know his music that well (the first is probably the logical outcome of the latter), but one of his phrases has been stuck in my head for years. In Babyshambles’ Albion, he sings: “gin in te..
Elegance, Interrupted
There is a scene in The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (by the great Alexandre Dumas) where Louis XIV remarks on the good taste of Louise de la Vallière – among the gaudily dressed nobility of the province, she is the only person with the good sense ..
A Study in Khaki
Khaki is officially The Colour With The Worst Name. I doubt it sounds good in any language and in Estonian, it has an unfortunate poo-connotation that makes pre-teens giggle. To make things worse, nobody really knows what colour khaki is. Is it almost beige?..
Summer Cashmere
I will not hear a word against cashmere. I don’t care if it has a bit of a ladies-who-lunch image problem, I think it’s wonderful. It is warm, it is soft, it doesn’t add bulk and layers easily, it looks luxurious and feels lovely. If you live in the north, c..
The Persistent Blue
When I wrote about trends a while back, I mentioned the things that just keep going and going, until they stop being trends and enter our sartorial landscape as permanent features. This has been the case with ballet flats and skinny jeans and I think it has ..
The Sane Side of the Seventies
Many people have specific historic periods they gravitate towards in terms of style. In my case, people tend to assume that it’s the sixties (not that I have TOO many conversations like that, but there have been some), mostly I guess because my only remarkab..
Thinking of Summer
I’ve been sitting on these pictures for almost a month now, because I promised myself that my blog will not do that stupid thing where you talk about summer clothes three months before summer actually arrives. But the thing is that as this post actually invo..
My Street
Last weekend, I had in mind to shoot some streetwear-inspired pictures, to prove that my taste stretches a bit further than pink brocade skirts, pink dresses and then maybe some black dresses for variety. But when others saw the clothes I had brought to the ..
A Cheap Dress
A not infrequent dialogue in our household goes something like this:
One of my sisters: “How much did it cost?”
Me: “Oh, not that much. (pause) Relatively speaking. (pause) I mean, some things cost much more.”
I’m not an indiscriminate spender, though, ..