GRANDMA SHIRT

  I’ve always been oddly attracted to grandma styles – embroidered cardigans, mother of peal buttons, nautical neck scarves and the like. Of course, I’m not talking about my own grandma’s clothing. Having lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and then a ‘waste-nothing’ middle class lifestyle, you can imagine that fashion wasn’t as a-matter-of-fact as it

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BLING-BLING BOOTIES

  There could possibly be no two things as complimentary as the skinny leather pant and studded flat booties.  These days my attention has turned sharply away from high heeled boots to flat, more masculine styles, if only for the latter’s edge factor (looks like I’m going through another one of my anti-girly phases). Of

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Denim Plaid Denim

  In a world ruled by formulas, plaid plus denim equals line dance queen, but denim plus plaid plus denim is a tasty sartorial club sandwich. Add to that a plain white tee and white converse canvas lace-ups and now, for me, this is an outfit that makes sense in all different directions. Weather appropriate,

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New Beauty Fav: Rimmel London Kate Moss Lasting Finish Matte Lipstick #103

Far be it from me to purport to identify lipstick colours by serial number, but I just couldn’t help gushing a little about #103 from Rimmel London Kate Moss Lasting Finish Matte Lipstick collection – a wonderfully chic blue based pale plum pink.I know I’m late getting on the bandwagon with the Kate Moss lippies,

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Misspelled T-Shirt

  Let me tell you, during my stint living in Japan, browsing the local mall’s copious collection of misspelled, misconceived and otherwise ridiculous graphic T-shirts, was considered by us ‘Gaijin’ (foreigners) to be a legitimate form of entertainment. And man, did we see some mind bogglers. You have to understand though, that it’s all about

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CAVEMAN CHIC

The more I look at this perforated leather skirt I bought from Hustle & Scout last month, the more I think of the animal skin dresses that Flinstones characters wore. So then I made the mistake of googling ‘Flinstones Fashion’ the other day and lost an hour of my life for ever. What came up

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