We Are Beirt | Aoife B. Burke & Miriam Burke
Post by CM What do you think of when you see the word nude? Busty ladies performing burlesque perhaps? Masterful paintings of women reclining on velvet chaises longues maybe? Not me! I think of TIGHTS! And SHOES! I love me a pair of nude tights, a fact that has long been established. I would (and […]
MorePost by CM If you haven’t noticed that Gucci is having a moment you haven’t taken note of Gucci since Victoria Beckham (nee Adams) tried to decide between identical little Gucci dresses in Spice World. And that classic came out in 1997. The house of Gucci was founded in Italy (where else?) in 1921 and […]
MorePost by CM By the end of February Fashion Month and its September counterpart, one can become all fashioned out – and that’s coming from someone who has viewed the shows from the comfort of my own computer and hasn’t had to travel to four cities in as many weeks! So if you gave up […]
MorePost by CM When I think about Katherine Hepburn, I think about not only her greatest roles – Jo Marsh in Little Women, Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story, Christina Drayton in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner to name but a few – but of her impeccable style, how it endures and how her confidence […]
MorePost by CM How do you all feel about flares, but on your arms instead of your legs? Because that’s the current trend vying for your attention. While its origins are very 70s, very hippy, the current incarnation is a bit more varied, a little more ruffled and structured. With the shoulder exposing look still […]
MorePost by CM Back when we were little mice, the tendency to dress us in similar, but not matching outfits led to TM donning mostly blue and yours truly mostly pink. Our dad continued on this old tradition recently, when he brought us back two rucksacks from Turkey, one in blue and one in burgundy (not […]
MorePost by CM I recently made an online purchase that in hindsight (as in, about 30 seconds after I hit the Buy Now button) may not have been terribly practical. TM wrote a post about ASOS and other online stores and their creepy cookies designed to lure you into grabbing more and more items that […]
MorePost by CM When I was in first year of University I had a collection of skinny scarves that I would wear on rotation until, with my poker-straightened hair and one pair of baggy pants I realised I was channeling Avril Lavigne, I stopped and never looked back. Until now. Trends come and go, that […]
MorePost by CM When you travel around Asia on a rapidly decreasing supply of money, and clothes that have been worn and re-worn too many times, the fashion conscious among us begin to take more and more notice of the style of those around us, from fresh off the plane tourists and gap year students to […]
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