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Another one of my go-to movies is Miss Potter. This 2006 film tells the bittersweet story of Beatrix Potter (played by Renee Zellweger) and the challenges she faces getting her children’s books (Peter Rabbit et al!) published at the turn of the last century, when women just didn’t do such things. No indeed, women instead […]… Continue reading Favorite Fashion Films: Miss Potter — OverDressed for Life

Fashion is both fascinating and contradictory. It creates trends and follows them, it welcomes and rejects; it judges. I love the fact that I am a part of it but I also relish the knowledge that my design language is different. I can be an outsider. Incapable of following trends just for the sake of […]… Continue reading Fashionable Quote of the Week by Orla Kiely — OverDressed for Life

One of the assignments in the fashion history class I recently completed was to find historical fashion references in current fashion. In magazines we looked for examples covering ancient clothing to the 20th century and matched with historical images from books, plus we had to write a comment. This week: The Fillet This hat […] via… Continue reading Finding Historical Fashion Today: The Fillet — OverDressed for Life

Number three on my list of Favorite Go-to Films is: You’ve Got Mail starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan (1998). It’s the story of two book store owners – Joe Fox, who owns the mega-chain Fox Books and Kathleen Kennedy, proprietor of the children’s book store Shop Around the Corner. The two have found […] via… Continue reading Favorite Fashion Films: You’ve Got Mail — OverDressed for Life

Its April of 2020 and Day 25 of A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing Metaphors. Be it a movie, song, painting, book, idiom, etc. I plan to give a perspective to it with an explanation and a 8 line poem. Metaphor: You’ve Got Mail Who hasn’t loved the movie with the casting… Continue reading You’ve Got Mail — Its PH

A pair of middle-aged couples, sincerely grasping at some Nixon era self-help hope through pop psychology and embracing a kind of forgiving openness that begins to both strain and expand their friendships, seem destined for partner swap. Is that really enough for a movie? So we’ve got our goofy and pouting Elliot Gould, our post […]… Continue reading Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) — I Saw A Film

I Saw A film! In 1965 Woody Allen was a red-headed Funko-pop version of himself and someone thought it would be a great idea to let him write a comedy screenplay. The result is this wholesome, white-bread, slapstick, sex adjacent, square-ass, mustard-on-a-hotdog of a film. Yes there are a few guffaws delivered by Peter Sellers, […]… Continue reading What’s New Pussycat (1965) — I Saw A Film

It’s hard to imagine all this stuff happening already before I was really old enough to appreciate it. I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I grew up in the country and was blown away accidentally finding Saturday Night Live and Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert on late night television. Nights in my folks house growing up were so […]… Continue reading If It Ain’t Stiff, It Ain’t Worth A Fuck (1977) — I Saw A Film

This is basically an “Elvis movie” without Elvis, but with the very cute Mamie Van Doren who is like a mini cross between Mansfield and Mae West (but leaning toward cute, rather than sultry). This film is set around rodeos, and There’s a ton of rodeo footage, trick riding, calf roping, and such built around […]… Continue reading Born Reckless (1958) — I Saw A Film

Yep, Dirty freakin’ Dancing. Laugh it up dear boozers, but in 1987 I was much too serious (severe even as I watched Troma films) to remotely consider glancing at this Patrick Swayze vehicle that was a hands-down favorite of my proper British Grandma (from Exeter). Yesterday I decided it was time to delve into the […]… Continue reading Dirty Dancing (1987) — I Saw A Film