After four years of unemployment, I have recently acknowledged to myself, that I probably won’t be leaving the house to go out to work in a nice air-conditioned office any time soon, so I must do what I advise others to do and buy clothes for the life that I am currently living. It’s time […]
A Critique of Glamour’s “24 Fashion Essentials You’ll Need in 2015”
Stradbroke Day 1935 at Ascot (Brisbane, Australia) race day fashion essentials. By Contributor(s): The Queenslander (6 June 1935) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In a large nutshell, this is my problem with “fashion essentials”. An essential is something that you just can’t do without; the air that you breathe for example. Fashion is a customary or conventional way […]
Wardrobe Planning 1935 style
Today’s advice about wardrobe planning 1935 style comes from a college textbook I discovered during my book research [1]. It offers advice on designing and fitting clothing, gaining the most satisfaction from your clothes and handily, a four step wardrobe plan. 1. Understand What Makes a Good Outfit Your outfit (or as they say, costume) starts with your […]
How to Protect Yourself from Counterfeiters
Recently I had the misfortune to purchase counterfeit goods online. Owning counterfeit goods in Australia is illegal, let alone selling them. I found it very shocking – I thought I had been really careful, but once you click the buy button it’s too late to do anything about it. And when you realise you could be in […]
The Benefit of Wardrobe Budgeting
As you know I am writing a book, called Signature Wardrobe Planning (all title feedback welcome by the way). It’s been a couple of weeks since I talked about the value of wardrobe planning, so I thought I’d follow up with some thoughts about wardrobe budgeting and buying clothes. I think many of us know we […]
Young Spirit v Older Body
I received a not-for-profit solicitation in the mail the other day. It’s an organisation that I believe does worthwhile work in the local and international communities. I have supported it for many years with donations of money, and more recently with my time and services. But, the solicitation really disturbed me – it made me very uncomfortable on a number […]
How to Make the Perfect Pizza
I thought today for something different, I would share one of the very great pleasures of being unemployed – “real” food. And as we are coming up to take out Friday, I would do this by sharing my perfect pizza recipe. I am not the only one who things my pizza is perfect – I have […]
Could You Do Fashion On a Budget?
As I mentioned in presence, clothing is an issue that has been concerning me since the transplant. As I mentioned, I had to replace all my clothes, and I went a bit nuts, just buying things that I liked the look of with no real plan of how they would work together or even how they would look […]
Planning for the Virtue of Wealth
I don’t know about you, but I am sick of half-arsed emails and blog posts about this one’s 2015 planning , and that one’s Top Five tips for the best year ever, so let’s get this last virtue of wealth out there and get down to the business of actually living. Global events notwithstanding. Now […]