![]() This Ruffle-Front Shirt in Liberty Libby Floral ($82.99, J. LEFT: One of my all-time favorite shirts is covered in blooms in a Liberty London print. Case in point is the brand’s cotton Easy Ruffle Shirt ($110, Shopbop), which tweaks the menswear style with a curved hem and a feminine frill on the cuffs and collar. ![]() RIGHT: Alex Mill is a new-to-me label I’m liking for its mostly easy-on-the-wallet prices and designs. Plus, the back is long enough to cover you rear end. This black Hero Buttondown ($148, Anthropologie) fits that description. She called her design, “The Hero,” an apt name for a top you can throw on in a hurry, wear with just about anything and look polished. LEFT: Audrey McLoghlin, who launched label Grayson in 2019, focused on creating a tailored shirt that had a lived-in look. Channel far-flung places with Alice +Olivia’s Wanderlust Top ($330) in a old-fashioned postcard print featuring famous monuments around the world, along with palm trees and swimming pools. RIGHT: You may not be able to travel but you can always dream. What do you call a shirt that can be worn by a 49-year-old as well as a 78-year-old? A winner. I also spotted Doris Kearns Goodwin wearing it on a news show. MSNBC anchor Nicole Wallace has worn this silk blouse several times, but she’s not the only one. LEFT: The print on Stacey Bendet’s Alice + Olivia Willa Placket Top ($295) features the company’s cute cartoony mascot-a woman’s face with big black sunglasses and red lips. And if you think you’d like to try a leather shirt, there’s that, too.įinally, what enters my decision of what to buy is whether it’s machine washable or not. Silhouettes are more relaxed, too-and embellished like those from Alex Mill and Simone Rocha. But why stop there? Pretty patterns, striking stripes and colors, such as khaki and orchid, are on offer, even more so as we make the transition toward spring. What a no-fail solution to the question of what to wear when working from home-or cautiously going out and about as more of us get vaccinated.Ī white shirt, in particular, is the equivalent of O-negative blood-it goes with everything else. But last week, bored by my usual repertoire, I looked into my closet and locked eyes with my newly acquired Brooks Brothers white and blue button-downs. Because I’m usually cold, I throw my Patagonia fleece jacket over whatever I have on. Anyway, subscribe to your local paper! And don’t forget your cape this summer.ALTHOUGH I may stray now and then, I stick to basics for everyday wear. Charcoal faded Levi’s and an oversize fisherman sweater or my favorite Mother Denim jeans topped by a slouchy cashmere crewneck are interspersed with tights and long-sleeve T-shirts for workout days. It was family-owned until last year, when it was bought by a competing paper. (That’s a scanned-in contemporaneous article from the New York Times and it for sure reads like the beginning of an Agatha Christie novel.) Her first husband “died in the night” after suffering “a nervous breakdown,” per the outstandingly named Youngstown Daily Vindicator, a paper which was once famous for its unflinching coverage of the KKK. ![]() Irene, by the way, in addition to being a vaudeville star, wrote and recorded a hit song in 1909 called “I’ve Got The Mumps” (!!), and also might have murdered her second husband, an assumption I’ve made because he was apparently shot at a party at her house and the question of who shot him was never solved. I assume one arrived in this get-up, then dramatically flung the cape to the ground and used it to sunbathe upon. The “most serviceable”? Well, I think even Irene has got to admit that swimming in a cape - even this DIVINE one, with FISH on it - has to be challenging. This is a compelling swimsuit in any era, and I appreciate Irene for having the flappers’ collective back. The original Informative Caption on this photo is delightful: Appearing in a “Bathing Girl of 1922″ costume, Irene Franklin, famous vaudeville star comes out in defence of the “flappers.” She claims this suit of the flapper is most serviceable and the thing on any beach. Is it “the thing on any beach”? FOR SURE. ![]()
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