Wife Dressing

One of our charming up-coming models just lent us an entertaining book: 1959’s “Wife Dressing”, a guide for the fine art of being a well-dressed wife. 

Written by designer Anne Fogarty (best known for using layers and layers of crinolines, and for frequently mentioning her 18" waist) we started reading expecting a whole lot of sexist, dated, un- relatable advice, funny at best and vaguely insulting at worst. There definitely is a fair amount of that…

…but Anne Fogarty also had a successful career, so along with tips about how to fulfill assorted wifely duties there’s also some pretty solid practical advice, as well as some wardrobe ideas that make 1959 sound like a whole lot more fun than it probably actually was. 

Here are a few more of the bits we enjoyed:

 

"I Would Wear That" - Album Cover edition

Buying music on vinyl has its disadvantages. Records take up a lot of space, get scratched if you leave them out, and weigh about 8 times more than you think they will when you move them.

But one of the great things about them is the album art, 

which is something we hate to see disappear as music goes digital. 

Here are a few of our favourite covers - chosen strictly by the criteria of

"I would wear that".