Our friends across the pond have got it all right: Jill Berry, president of England’s Girl’s School Association, speaks out against those who may deride fashion as being shallow, pointing out that intelligence and an interest “in being seen [as] attractive… are not mutually exclusive.”
(Did you know that stunningly-beautiful actress Hedy Lamarr, for example, was [...]
Jeanne d’Arc would be pleased.
Not since the 1980s have there been so many urban warrioresses power-stomping down the runways in marked defiance to the frilly sex slave/baby incubator version of femininity that has been expected of women since — well, forever, really.
Reigning now is, of course, rampant Balmania with that ubiquitous strong shoulder-line so popular [...]

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