ABC Wednesday—B is for "Bill Cunningham"

Those young women were there for the same
reason I was: to pay homage and snap
a picture for posterity of the sign the city placed
at the corner of 5th Avenue and 57th Street.
 Bill Cunningham was the New York Times's
"roving fashion photographer" and this corner was
one of his favorite spots for catching candid shots of
NYC's fashionable women.  His photos could be
seen in the Sunday Times Style section every week.
He will be missed!

[To see more ABC shots, go here.]

Thursday Challenge—"black"

I thought I was done showing you fashions from
this year's Costume Institute show at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  But here's one
more:  this beautiful c. 1938 black lace dress
with a die-cut, hand-assembled white-linen corsage 
from—who else?—Coco Chanel.  

[To see more of the Thursday Challenge, go here.]

whirling dervish

Last week was Fashion Week here in NYC,
and one day I encountered three photo shoots on my 
morning commute over the Brooklyn Bridge.
This model reminded me of a whirling dervish . . .

she was beautiful, graceful, and fierce.

[Linking back to Our World Tuesday
and to Wordless Wednesday (on Tuesday).]

Shadow Shot Sunday

Last time I was in Florence, I
found these fashionable shadows
hanging around the Palazzo Vecchio.

[To see more Sunday shadows, go here.]

photo Hunt — "fashion"

Took this a couple of years ago as I was walking through
the campus of FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology).
These students are serious about it—I mean, just
check out that chapeau.  I lived a couple of blocks from this 
school when my kids were little, and found Lila's first 
babysitters here (maybe this explains her fashion sense).
[For more "fashion," go to tnchick's meme.]

I don't get it

At the risk of sounding like a total
fuddy-duddy, could someone please
explain this "look" to me? Whenever I
see a kid with his pants belted below
his butt like this, I want to ask him two
questions: "Why??" and "How do you
keep them up?" Just out of curiosity,
I tried this myself at home—and, of course,
my drawers were down around my knees
in no time. And I couldn't DO anything
because I had to be thinking about my
pants every second! Seriously, I truly
just don't get it.

[You can find more of That's my World
Tuesday here.]

fashion forward?

or fashion faux pas?
I honestly can't
decide. So does
this make me
fashion feeble?