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Fashionistas, Pin-ups & Valentines

Tracee Sioux — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:53:07 +0000

Wonder what blog Fashionistas are talking about?

Wonder no more, just visit The Fabulous! Festival of Fashion and find out. This month it’s hosted by It’s All About Appearances.

Bouncing around the carnival I discovered an interesting thesis on Pin-Up art by a female pinup artist Tali at The Pinup Shop Blog. She explains the history of damsel in distress pinup art and why it’s not commonly depicted in neo-pinups today.

For Valentine’s Day you might consider having a pin-up portrait of yourself painted for your Valentine. Tali, the pin-up artist, takes orders online.

You can also order 97 valentines gifts from shirts to doggy coats of the above original design.

It’s funny, I can’t decide if it’s offensive. She said it illustrates our Love/Hate relationship with the upcoming holiday.

It is an apt illustration of that.

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Fashionistas, Pin-ups & Valentines

Fabulous Festival

Tracee Sioux — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:19:43 +0000

Ashe Mischief over at Dramatis Personae is throwing the holiday Fabulous! Festival all about the holiday fashions this season.

Do you really think her name is Ashe Mischief or is it just a fabulous nom de plume?

Stop by and check it out. I’m going back to check out the story about hats. I just love a good hat.

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Fabulous Festival

Fabulous! Festival

Tracee Sioux — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:01:46 +0000

Fabulous! Festival, a blog carnival about fashion, has been issued by ICY over at Individual Chic. They are always kind enough to include me, even though some of my submissions question the value or place of fashion. I figure who better to make an impact on fashion culture than those who are actually interested in it? Besides, we all know it does matter. Whether that’s right or wrong, if it didn’t we’d all just wear the same jeans and t-shirts and have the same bob haircut. But, we like to express ourselves in with our own fashion sense, it’s all just a matter of keeping it in perspective for our daughters (and our overall financial health).

This issue was supposed to be about handbags, of course, I submitted whatever I wanted anyway, because half the time I don’t think the rules apply to me. The other half I’m irritated that you don’t think they apply to you.

I just got a new handbag because I loathed the one I had. I am truly never satisfied with my purse. I am not a changer of purses to match my shoes and belt - so very Southern. I just want a cute functional one that goes with everything. It’s hit or miss and after about 6 months I throw my purse away because I loath it so much. Of course, I don’t buy expensive ones so I can just discard them.

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Fabulous! Festival