Thank you dear Michelle and Linsay. I enjoyed reading your first interview and I guess that I am the first person to comment! I am looking forward to discovering Linsay's "Alpha Female Chronicles".
I couldn't agree more with your fashion "statements" (both literary and in actual fact) dear Linsay and Michelle.
I'll get this out of the way right now: I really don't understand how women can leave home in pyjamas and men go out in public wearing jogging pants! Que c'est laid !!! When I need to step out to drop a letter in the mailbox and I am still in my p.j.s, I wear a long coat with high boots and tuck the pants in! I don't want a flannel print or polar fleece to show. That's in the wintertime of course. I would definitely wear clothes and not p.j.s in the warmer weather! (I don't own jogging pants!)
I also NEED to wear earrings!! When I was working full-time and commuting from my hometown to a neighbouring city, I would forget on an average of once or twice a year (at most) to put on earrings. When I realized this and it was too late to go back home to fetch some earrings, I would feel uncomfortable for the rest of the workday! It was almost distracting. Forgetting earrings meant that I had to be extra vigilant driving. It was a signal that I was becoming tired and absent-minded!
Not being able to wear lipstick or at least to be able to see lipstick or a tinted lip balm while wearing a mask during the pandemic was a real sacrifice! I would sometimes wear lipstick under my mask with the knowledge that it was on my lips, although not apparent!
When my mother was a young adult, she was told that she looked like Grace Kelly, entre autres. Although my mom was a brunette, I do see the resemblance. Period black and white photography has captured her classical "patrician" facial features and her dreamy aura. She exudes an air of poise and grace that are so typical of the forties' and fifties' cinematography and photography.
There is a lot to be said about that type of photography or stills in movies as well. There seems to be an aura of mystery and "remoteness" emanating from the portraits, you know? Although women's eyebrows and lips are usually well-defined, their overall facial features appear softer. I like that. Linsay, do you like Yousuf Karsh's photos of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier that were taken a few months after their wedding in 1956? When Karsh meets Kelly it becomes high art!
I guess that my Grace Kelly would be Audrey Hepburn, going into the sixties. There is such elegance and simplicity in her fashion style and in her manière d'être. I have just discoverd that both Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn were born in 1929. My mom was born in 1936.
Another discovery: "kitten heels". I love those! I'm glad to have found the name for that type of heel in your interview.
Thank you again dear Michelle and Linsay for sharing your obsessions. Linsay, may you enjoy your honeymoon in Monaco someday, strolling along the Riviera while you are holding your kitten heels in one hand and your hubby's hand in the other. Michelle, please enjoy and wear your hats! And I mean big, bold, wide-brimmed, high and oversized hats, not the flimsy pillboxes or veiled pillboxes worn by the royals and their entourage! But hey, if you like those, go for it!!! I guess that what I am trying to say is to go ahead a make a statement!!! Check out Amélie Nothomb during televised interviews. Mad Hatter, move over!! (Tiens, tiens, une autre écrivaine !)
It's always such a pleasure to read your comments, dear Brigitte! I'm glad you enjoyed the first interview and related to Linsay's obsessions too! I didn't know who Yousuf Karsh was, so thank you for the info. And it's interesting how our staples--or forgetting to wear our staples (like earrings, for example)--can be indicative of our moods and overall state. Have a great day xox
Michelle, I never thought of my obsessions or even if I have or ever had one, before I started to read your newsletters. It's really food for thought. It made me think more about myself.. Interesting..Thank you. ❤️
Thank you for your comment Carole. I'm glad the newsletter struck a cord and made you wonder about your own obsessions... I love introspection! Happy diving lol! xox
Thank you dear Michelle and Linsay. I enjoyed reading your first interview and I guess that I am the first person to comment! I am looking forward to discovering Linsay's "Alpha Female Chronicles".
I couldn't agree more with your fashion "statements" (both literary and in actual fact) dear Linsay and Michelle.
I'll get this out of the way right now: I really don't understand how women can leave home in pyjamas and men go out in public wearing jogging pants! Que c'est laid !!! When I need to step out to drop a letter in the mailbox and I am still in my p.j.s, I wear a long coat with high boots and tuck the pants in! I don't want a flannel print or polar fleece to show. That's in the wintertime of course. I would definitely wear clothes and not p.j.s in the warmer weather! (I don't own jogging pants!)
I also NEED to wear earrings!! When I was working full-time and commuting from my hometown to a neighbouring city, I would forget on an average of once or twice a year (at most) to put on earrings. When I realized this and it was too late to go back home to fetch some earrings, I would feel uncomfortable for the rest of the workday! It was almost distracting. Forgetting earrings meant that I had to be extra vigilant driving. It was a signal that I was becoming tired and absent-minded!
Not being able to wear lipstick or at least to be able to see lipstick or a tinted lip balm while wearing a mask during the pandemic was a real sacrifice! I would sometimes wear lipstick under my mask with the knowledge that it was on my lips, although not apparent!
When my mother was a young adult, she was told that she looked like Grace Kelly, entre autres. Although my mom was a brunette, I do see the resemblance. Period black and white photography has captured her classical "patrician" facial features and her dreamy aura. She exudes an air of poise and grace that are so typical of the forties' and fifties' cinematography and photography.
There is a lot to be said about that type of photography or stills in movies as well. There seems to be an aura of mystery and "remoteness" emanating from the portraits, you know? Although women's eyebrows and lips are usually well-defined, their overall facial features appear softer. I like that. Linsay, do you like Yousuf Karsh's photos of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier that were taken a few months after their wedding in 1956? When Karsh meets Kelly it becomes high art!
I guess that my Grace Kelly would be Audrey Hepburn, going into the sixties. There is such elegance and simplicity in her fashion style and in her manière d'être. I have just discoverd that both Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn were born in 1929. My mom was born in 1936.
Another discovery: "kitten heels". I love those! I'm glad to have found the name for that type of heel in your interview.
Thank you again dear Michelle and Linsay for sharing your obsessions. Linsay, may you enjoy your honeymoon in Monaco someday, strolling along the Riviera while you are holding your kitten heels in one hand and your hubby's hand in the other. Michelle, please enjoy and wear your hats! And I mean big, bold, wide-brimmed, high and oversized hats, not the flimsy pillboxes or veiled pillboxes worn by the royals and their entourage! But hey, if you like those, go for it!!! I guess that what I am trying to say is to go ahead a make a statement!!! Check out Amélie Nothomb during televised interviews. Mad Hatter, move over!! (Tiens, tiens, une autre écrivaine !)
It's always such a pleasure to read your comments, dear Brigitte! I'm glad you enjoyed the first interview and related to Linsay's obsessions too! I didn't know who Yousuf Karsh was, so thank you for the info. And it's interesting how our staples--or forgetting to wear our staples (like earrings, for example)--can be indicative of our moods and overall state. Have a great day xox
Michelle, I never thought of my obsessions or even if I have or ever had one, before I started to read your newsletters. It's really food for thought. It made me think more about myself.. Interesting..Thank you. ❤️
Thank you for your comment Carole. I'm glad the newsletter struck a cord and made you wonder about your own obsessions... I love introspection! Happy diving lol! xox