Because you're in the public eye, and God knows you need to look good.
I just want to say that I stood a few feet from this lovely man the other morning, and in real life he is more stunning. I know that a lot of Massachusetts residents want to know what Deval is going to do for the commonwealth, but I feel very confident about his policies and his vision. What I really want to know is, what kind of skin care regimen does he use? Because he just GLOWS.
flutter, flutter, crush, crush!
I just found a wonderful article on dressing for academics!!
Check it out, ya’ll — it’s from the 1998 archives of The Chronicle of Higher Education,
PeaceBang feels far less frivolous now.
Discuss.
P.S. If anyone really in true life knows Wayne, please tell him that his book about opera and queer desire is one of my FAVORITES and convinced me that maybe grad school would be FUN and that I want to write the same kind of book someday about BROADWAY MUSICALS and archetypal psychology!! Love you, Wayne! Kiss, kiss!
PeaceBang swoons with admiration!!
Props to the Cathedral Church of the Advent of Birmingham for having totally beautiful photos of their clergy, all of whom are absolutely impeccably turned out and have lovely, warm, inviting smiles. Soak in the beauty at:
Those Episcopalians. They always look so smart, and they make the best g & t’s.
You know why this TOTALLY works for this fabulous, vibrant babe of a lay minister?
Because she has the vavoom, the charisma, the huge hair and the huge smile to balance all that fabric. As an African-American woman, she has an ethnic connection to this look. She and that jacket BELONG together. Wouldn’t you just want to come up to her and plop yourself down next to her and confide every deep, dark secret of your heart to her? So would I. The thing is, she works for Sacred Places, whose mission is to “promote the stewardship and active community use of America’s older religious properties,” so she’s not that kind of minister. Still, though, that jacket inspires confidence!
(www.sacredplaces.org)
Too many female clerics don the flowy, unstructured jacket and they just don’t have the Endora Majesty (a term I just coined, and feel free to use it!) to move elegantly and commandingly through the world in such garments. On them, it just looks like they’re too heavy to wear an actual structured outfit, and that they lack the confidence or know-how to dress professionally.
Could this be you? Have you been stuck in the Mother Earth Flowy Look for too long, relying on huge cotton garments to say to the world, “I am a Deeply Spiritual Woman?” If so, PeaceBang has hard news for you, so let’s hold hands and hear it: Big, loose clothes do not communicate “spiritual” so much as they communicate “big, loose clothes.” Try on a jacket and a pair of trousers, and see how it changes your outlook and challenges your assumptions about how to project the appropriate image.
Let me know how it goes!!
This dishy lady attended the REVIVAL conference in NYC and I just had to photograph her. She’s a lay woman from England who definitely knows how to put together an outfit *even though she’s living out of a suitcase.*
Look how things fit her. Granted, she has a terrific figure, but that’s just icing on the cake. The fitted shell, the jacket that falls perfectly at wrist and hip, the skirt that hugs her curves and then falls right below the knee to show terrific boots. We can see a bit of flesh on her upper half, so she isn’t entirely shrouded in fabric.
Study, learn, ruminate. If you were wondering how to wear knee-high boots, ladies, this is how: not clomping around under yards and yards of fabric that hits you at the ankle and makes you look as though you’re being swallowed by the Big Cloth Monster.
One thing I just love is that she’s actually touching her hair in that universal gesture of “how do I look?”
