https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:55:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866811 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 17:31:13 +0000 rachylou 1866811@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ohmigosh. I’m so tired. I’m a baker! I’m still sleeping. Thank goodness today is dim sum. Hope to rally tomorrow. Today will be pure Quirky Waif. I have to go find him and chaffeur him too. He’s a fussy old lady. Or I am. I feel like Maggie Smith right now in Downton Abbey: Many friends I don’t like.</p> <p>Ha! Going back to sleep now! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866810 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 17:28:31 +0000 Jane 1866810@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, this is a good thread. I'm with Angie, what are you going to wear? I can see you would rock Viv Westwood.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866792 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:50:09 +0000 Angie 1866792@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sooooo, what are you going to wear, <b>Rachy</b>?<b></b> Plaid skirt does not change my mind - sounds fab. Fun heels worn with the leggings under the skirt sound like a plan. Lets see the look!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866737 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:34:39 +0000 rachylou 1866737@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, just to grind my heel on these matters... I have my own souvenir Briny Bear. Ie, Aloysius Teddy Bear (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_(Waugh)" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_(Waugh)</a> )</p> <p>Do not ask me to explain the road from Aloysius to Briny as a nickname. I forget. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866720 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 04:08:40 +0000 rachylou 1866720@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Your ex is famous, Suz! Lol.</p> <p>Shevia, Isabel... My friend is a connoisseur of food, wine, and formal dress. Not a beacon, more digging in for the Casual Apocalypse. We dine, is what we do. Occasional opera. We discuss philosophy, socio politics, military strategy. We begin with cocktail hour. No appearing before noon. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866718 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 03:57:30 +0000 Suz 1866718@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>well, I am way too late for this party but I was having fun imagining the various outfits and then got sidetracked on Vivienne Westwood (Anna always has the best suggestions) and also Linda Evangelista because my ex-husband's claim to fame was that he went to HIGH SCHOOL WITH HER!!!&nbsp;</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866713 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 03:39:56 +0000 Jaime 1866713@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>As amusing and illuminating as this thread is, I still don't feel I have a grasp on your friend. Does he like to stand alone as a beacon of propriety in a world of entropy or does he prefer to have you share his subtle limelight and join his worldview? What do you usually do? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866710 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 03:35:50 +0000 Anonymous 1866710@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't think a person who wants to dress in their own style is being selfish and I don't think a person who dresses to please someone else is being submissive. I do like to be true to myself, whatever that might be, and it's not always easy to know what that is.</p> <p>Sometimes in situations like this when multiple "selves" are wrestling for control, I bypass the rationalizing by just imagining the future scene, including the company I expect to be with, and then picturing myself.</p> <p>In this setting I'm wearing..</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866704 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 02:07:10 +0000 Carla 1866704@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Vivienne Westwood and Linda Evangelista - I die. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866696 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 01:08:32 +0000 annagybe 1866696@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh she was good too.<br /> I feel like I should watch this, though she wasn’t in it</p> <p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0A" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0A</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866691 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:21:06 +0000 rachylou 1866691@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>For some reason, Paulina is the model emblazoned on my mind. Her face on Mademoiselles... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866668 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 19:00:43 +0000 annagybe 1866668@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yay!</p> <p>Side note, can I just say I really miss Linda Evangelista. She was my favorite model. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/3#post-1866664 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:57:36 +0000 rachylou 1866664@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I did, I did! Wearing the heck out of it. I need to do pics, but there are so many other things I need to do first. Like clear away everything in front of the mirror! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866662 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:54:37 +0000 LaPed 1866662@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Okay, I think Kipling-and-armagnac parties may be the new hipster shindig.</p> <p>I vote black dress with pearls and plaid. Did you ever get the JW Anderson puffer?? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866598 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 12:21:02 +0000 Anonymous 1866598@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Merci Sterling </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866593 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 12:04:50 +0000 Anonymous 1866593@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>IF <u>anyone</u> could channel Vivienne Westwood, you could, <b>Rachy Lou</b>. &nbsp;I do understand how working until Midnight would constrain you though. &nbsp;It is a shame. &nbsp;But truthfully, if I worked until Midnight, I would likely be in bed.&nbsp;</p> <p><b>SarahD8</b> -- I love that style statement. &nbsp;</p> <p>And <b>Annagybe</b> -- those pictures were pure delight. &nbsp; </p> <p><b>Bernard </b>-- You always look fabulous.&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866592 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 12:00:10 +0000 Anonymous 1866592@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you Rachylou to quote me on my way to wear the shirt with the collar closed I agree with you it's more beautiful with a suit I think it's more classy. To make you happy with your outfit Your friend Bernard </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866570 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 05:23:58 +0000 SarahD8 1866570@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have to jump in. "Edwardian in dress, not belief": I think I just found my style statement.</p> <p>(Also every day is Vivienne Westwood's heyday.) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866569 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 05:11:13 +0000 rachylou 1866569@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, you are always so brilliant Annagybe. If I can find a good topper, like the Linda Evangelista, my plaid ruffle skirt would totally work. I do love #4, but would need more time for it.</p> <p>The darn problem is he arrives in two days. I work until midnight on Saturday! I don’t really have time to dress, you know do hair and makeup and put real clothes on. And I have to make reservations still! Argh.</p> <p>And yeah, no, colonialism isn’t nice. And that’s why ‘Leave those people alone’ a la the PBS movie of the week. Edwardian in dress, not belief. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866567 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 04:55:03 +0000 annagybe 1866567@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>#1 the one &amp; only Linda Evangelista. In full on highland &amp; then some<br /> #2 herself<br /> #3, maybe a bit to Dickensian<br /> #4 wrong season I think, but I figured you appreciate the toile t-shirt </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866566 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 04:40:03 +0000 annagybe 1866566@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Do you have anything that channels Vivienne Westwood in her heyday? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866563 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:36:07 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1866563@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The Boris way. <a href="http://www.atimes.com/article/nostalgic-imperialist-boris-johnson-read-tennyson/" rel="nofollow">http://www.atimes.com/article/.....-tennyson/</a></p> <p>But no, zero humor about colonialism being “ not that bad” or even “good for the colonies” or whatever other lines Britain First and other nazis have come up with. Living with people whose country was recently torn apart by a proxy war that took advantage of colonial power play-offs while simultaneously reading hundreds of pages of original documents written by colonizers 100 years earlier will have that effect. Turns the stomach and turns off any sense that there could be humor in it.</p> <p>So is this visit soon enough that you can start trying things on? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866560 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:30:33 +0000 rachylou 1866560@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Jenni, Sterling - thanks for the suggestions/input! I’ll give the rundown one day. It’s all British colonialism for my peeps, yeah... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866558 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:26:38 +0000 rachylou 1866558@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That’s a joke right? Lol. That’s where I’m at right now.</p> <p>We will probably have too much fun! We always do. We will probably recite Kipling with the armagnac. Or Tennyson. Tennyson is better fun. Aaaa! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866556 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:20:59 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1866556@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How anyone could find it offensive that colonialism is offensive is beyond me. </p> <p>Your friend sounds like a quirky dude. This should be a fun visit! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866555 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:18:36 +0000 rachylou 1866555@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Right, Kipling didn’t intend offense. But people find it offensive nonetheless. And then yet other people find it offensive that people find it offensive.</p> <p>But oh no, lol. Now Egypt is involved!</p> <p>My friend... travels. He likes rural Wyoming, Montana. Spends time there. Recently he was in Paris and Vienna. He’s interested in making a catamaran home... He’s extremely social actually... in an anti-social way.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866526 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 01:25:48 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1866526@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>“White man’s burden” is a Kipling phrase. It was intended in earnest, not as an attack on whites in any way. It relies explicitly on the superiority of white people and white culture to move along the rest of the world. “Bofu”, at least as I’ve heard it in the phrase “Bofu Egypt” is a shortened version of “butt fu**”. </p> <p>If I understand your later comments, your friend does not live in a rural area; he chooses to limit his social engagements. Is that correct? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866522 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 01:13:11 +0000 rachylou 1866522@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don’t know the gay slur. But it comes from a PBS movie of the week. It’s a reference to the offensiveness of the, well, ‘white man’s burden’ concept in general. Which of course is in turn an attack on white culture. Can’t win really. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866517 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:40:03 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1866517@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Binkie, considering it’s a combination of a gay slur and condescension about a place, I agree. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/edwardian-in-the-non-edwardian-age/page/2#post-1866488 Fri, 08 Dec 2017 23:08:42 +0000 binkle 1866488@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Something about Bofu Botswana is incredibly offensive. </p>