Hell's Belles Clutch Bags

Check out these exceedingly comely Hell's Belles Backseat clutch bags -- now in at the Larkin & Catcher store.

The Hell's Belles Backseat Black Liquorice with Leopard Clutch Bag

The Hell's Belles Backseat Candy Apple Red Clutch Bag

"I'll Have What She's Having"

So -- a rainy Sunday afternoon, with the place to myself and a load of mind-numbing paperwork to get through. A perfect time to watch my very recently acquired When Harry Met Sally DVD. I'd seen various little snippets from the movie in the past -- most notably the legendary Deli scene but I'd never sat through the whole thing before.

Billy Crystal looks to be somewhere in his mid-thirties in the opening scenes (where he's supposed to be just graduating uni) and it's not that easy to believe that he'd be quite so successful with women -- I take it that the Sally character fell for him because of his personality -- but the pair have a kind of believable chemistry going on and Meg Ryan looks just beautiful, of course (I'm glad she seems to have now quit all that botox/lip fillers business she went in for a few years ago and has lost that waxen, the-Joker-from-Batman look).

But the reason I'm writing about the movie here is that it makes a perfect argument against high-waisted jeans. All the characters in the movie wore hideous, unflattering stonewashed jeans but the wardrobe department surpassed itself when it came to Ryan's character. High-waisted, to the point that they were somewhere up around her armpits; so tightly-belted that they even made the petite Ryan look as if she had a pot belly; so tight at the ankle that she looked in danger of having the blood-flow to her feet cut-off...

But by far the greatest crime brought about by those monstrous denims was the fact that -- not only were they pulled so high in the upwards direction that she appeared to be in danger of being cut in half vertically -- but they had the ghastly effect of producing more than a hint of the dreaded camel toe. Just unforgivable.

I've now come to the conclusion that only Kate Moss and the original Charley's Angels can possibly get away with high-waist jeans and even then it is near-enough vital that the jeans have to be flares. It's the only way.

I still loved the film, though.

Retro Olympics Bags

Over at the *utterly fabulous* Larkin & Catcher store, we've just taken a delivery of a collection of ultra cool classic retro Olympics shoulder bags.

Retro Olympics Shoulder Bag -- Tokyo 1964

Retro Olympics Shoulder Bag -- Moscow 1980

Retro Olympics Shoulder Bag -- Munich 1972

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Razor Sharp = trippy

Louise Brooks

My mother loved really old Hollywood movies and my father loved boxing, so when I was a kid I spent a lot of time either watching films or fights. This probably explains why I still pack a mean punch and why I had a Louise Brooks bob for most of my childhood. Brooks was the queen of bobs, though, and no-one really pulls that look off quite as well as she did. Here's a You Tube tribute video, which shows just how beautiful she was.

Tegan and Sara -- the Back in Your Head Video

We've just put this Milano Chow t-shirt in our sale (but only because we're moving most of the clothing out to make way for our own line)...



... and we get contacted by (yet another) satisfied customer who has just seen her very distinctive 'Sleeping Girl' tee on a music video. She thinks it's weird that she's wearing her new t-shirt for the very first time, when it pops up on a random You Tube video. But we say -- life's like that: surreal and a lot smaller than we think.

Here's Tegan and Sara and the 'evidence'.

Cute Boys Who Will Never Love Her...

This Blogger photographs cute boys -- purely for her 'fashion blog', you understand. Last week she photographed cute boys at Paris Pride...

Found via La Coquette

Baudelaire -- Part Two

Found via a trail of links from the Little. Red. Boat blog (mentioned in my previous post) -- the Kung Fu Dana blog and the extremely funny Baudelaire Part Two video.

Little. Red. Boat -- one magical blog post

"A Cosmically Selective Process"