Go Take A Hike: I'm Prada These Boots

I have a long-cherished pair of hiking boots from J.Crew--black with scarlet laces. They've been mine for over twenty years now, and I feel like an Alpine Edelweiss when I wear them.

And although they come in handy for climbing ev'ry mountain, there are some times when a lass needs to traverse a lunar landscape. So I'm considering turning to Prada, and these terrific hikers that are just right for leaping over craters or stalking the milky way.

September 11, 2016

Fifteen years ago at 9:30 a.m. I was getting ready to teach The Great Gatsby, not having any idea what was happening in New York, or Pennsylvania, or DC.

Now, instead of considering "the single green light" from Gatsby, I see this double blue light, remember and honor the past, and look forward.

A Tail of Two Shoes, or: The Zebra's Tale. Gucci's Delightful Mary Janes

Jenna Lyons from J Crew calls new shoes "shiny ponies"; Gucci's taken that one step further with these cunning zebra Mary Janes, replete with glossy black tails.

After seeing these, pompoms seem solastyear, and all I can think about is corralling a matched set to pull my carriage.

Anyone else want to take a ride?

Mens Where? Shirting Fabric in Feminine Shapes at Johanna Ortiz

I love men's shirting fabric, especially when it's done up in a feminine manner, with oversized frills and balloon sleeves.

In the 1990s Byron Lars owned the feminine take on shirting, with his architectural fits, and now the mantle seems to have been passed to Colombian designer Johanna Ortiz.

I'd pair these with a darker denim than pictured (from Net a Porter), or maybe a short khaki short. And definitely a grey pencil skirt.

Bottoms Up: Dressing Upside Down in New York Magazine

I love clothes worn in unexpected ways, and New York Magazine's fashion issue did not disappoint with its series of restaurant employees wearing clothes inside out, upside down, or bottom as top.

My two favourite looks were on Kellie Jones, a server at Lovely Day, who wore this wide brim Ralph Lauren hat topsy turvey. (I intensely dislike wide-brim hats like this [the floppier the worse] but I may revise my thinking now that there's a chic way to wear them.)

And this upside-down gown by Oscar de la Renta was just meant to be gathered into billowing pink clouds. Jones clutches them as if she were Daisy Buchanan, ready to push Gatsby around.