GRRRRRIL power!

Yes, wingdeep, I AM a girl.
And despite the fact that I also "throw like a girl," I think being a girl is pretty much the only truly fashionable way to exist in this world!

Thanks for the comments...

Hi there!

Sorry I've been gone, AGAIN.
But before I left I snapped this shot of Colleen (she's such a fashion DO regular!) in this really cool, white cotton skirt. I don't know if you can see the embroidery at the hem, which really sets off the skirt. I looked for a skirt like this in spring, hoping to wear it during the summer season and never could find just the right one. Kudos to Colleen for her sweet summer catch!

In response to the comment about my husband...yes, I pick out clothes for him when we go shopping. But I don't dress the man!

He has his own, um, "sense" about things like colors that go together (he's got a particular blind spot on gray and green that I don't understand) and interesting shoe attire.

Sigh.
As the saying goes, you can take the boy out of Taft....

M-I-Z-Z-O-U!!!
School spirit fashion hits the newsroom.
Ok, so Gretchen and I didn't actually attend University of Missouri at Columbia. But we were there for training last week so we, spent all our free time buying Mizzou fashion accessories. Christine (seated) and Mike (the only dude in the shot) actually DID attend UM and had mucho school spirit but nada T-shirts. So Gretchen and I picked up the slack for them.
Not only with cool Ts but a Mizzou blanket, Mizzou pens and pencils, Mizzou spiral notepad, Mizzou sticky note pad, Mizzou lunch bag, etc. etc.
GO TRUMAN!!! (Mizzou initiates will know who that is...)

Good news!
James finally went to a stylist who knows how to use scissors! YEA James!

Fashion princess
Hey, if a gal can't wear sparkly pink tennies with a sequined shrug and a tiarra on her birthday, then the terrorists truly have won!
Happy Birthday Emma!

Been out of town...but even so, I picked up some cool new shoes.

Ok, they're not FASHION plate shoes...but they're way cool for hiking and jogging in and out of water AND I can even throw them in the wash when they're filthified - according to the sales lady. They're KEEN (I don't mean "neato keen" that's really the brand name.)

And my pal Gretchen got a pair of nifty clogs. There's a phrase I never thought I'd say, "nifty clogs...."

Mini me!
Not only did we wear, essentially the same outfit today (though my sandals are much snappier than Alex's brown lumpy loafers!) but our trucks are the same color of green with camper shells! And, of course, Alex has a massive truck and mine is somewhat on the petite side (my husband's ruffian friends refer to it as a "sample truck.")

The long and the short of it...

A colleague (male) responded to my rant about the baggy long shorts in the photo of the gentleman buying Mickey-Ds below.

My colleague's contention is that the baggy long shorts for men is all the fault of us ladies. (I mentioned that this look originated in prison, but was dismissed)

He claims that the low-rise jeans look favored by many gals (including moi) created a glut of "butt baring" clothing. So men really have no choice. In face, he challenged me to go into any store and actually find shorts that would fit and not have that long baggy look.

Aha! A challenge I can accept! (he doesn't know this, but I shop for my husband and am quite capable of finding nice shorts that neither sag nor bag and don't extend so far down the calf as to make the wearer's legs look deformed!)