AnimaMundi

Shir o Shakar

The Persian words 'shir o shakar" mean "milk and sugar". Smooth milk, bumpy sugar. This is a description of the texture of the fabric seersucker. It was originally worn by the workingman, but then became a fabric of the upper class. Up North, it is not supposed to be worn before the last Monday in May. I saw someone wearing it on May 8th. Fashion Faux Pas! I was kind of enough not to point this out to the gentleman for fear of retaliation or worse. The U.S. Senate, that venerable hive of do-gooders, had, can you believe it, a Seersucker Thursday. Thanks, Trent Lott. We'll all come down to your Mississippi gulf home dressed head to toe in seersucker, oh wait...your house isn't there anymore. Sorry Trent, you are probably living displaced somewhere like Cohoes, NY.

"Yeah, Im sharp
I'm really, really sharp
I sure do earn my pay
Sitting on the beach every day, yeah
Im real real sharp, yes I am
I got a corvette and a seersucker suit
Yes I have"

"Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man"

The Stones

"The Meaning of Sunglasses"

Hadley Freeman has written a book with the above title. The subtitle is: "And A Guide To Almost All Things Fashionable" 

From the article on the book and fashionistas in general:

As she writes in the section labeled "Cleavage, and the plumbing of depths," "Show me a woman with a good three inches of cleavage on display, and I’ll show you a woman who, rightly or wrongly, has little faith in her powers of conversation."

"A work colleague recently took one look at the four-inch peep toe heels I was wearing and snarled, “Don’t you know why men invented high heels?” I doubted anything I said would deflect what was coming next, so I just shrugged. “So you can’t run away when they want to rape you.” I understand. I used to be a humorless feminist, too, complete with shaved head and my father’s combat boots. Then I discovered Charles David heels and got over it. If only The Meaning of Sunglasses had existed sooner, I could have spent less time being a self-righteous twit."