http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png http://jezebel.com/tag/poortaste http://jezebel.com/tag/poortaste When Y. Euny Hong married "Leopold" a month after meeting him, some were skeptical. "My friends thought it was impetuous of me to go along with this breakneck courtship — especially since the ink was barely dry on my divorce from my first husband — but I could not be dissuaded. This was my lifelong image of what love should be like, and I was eager to start afresh," she writes in Marie Claire. And, sure enough, all was not rosy: seems what Hong interpreted as romantic quirkiness and childlike spontaneity was bipolar disorder. After Leopold's 4th suicide attempt, the couple called it quits. "Now, I am wary of overly romantic gestures, which is sad. But prudent." Yeah, well, the story of people suffering from serious illness is tragic. But hey, at least you can look as romantically melancholy as the pensive model the mag uses to illustrate "one woman's trip to the dark side and back"... dressed in "Sweater, $168, Calvin Klein; top, $78, Armani Exchange; pants, $79, Kenneth Cole Reaction." Sad — but stylish! [Marie Claire]

]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5039432&view=rss&microfeed=true Though we're quick to mock the folks over at Vogue and W's sister site Style.com, they get a gold star for this one. With Rachel Zoe and Victoria Beckham both putting out books on the rules of style, Style.com editors decided to pit Posh and Raisin-Face's pearls of wisdom against old school style authoress Anne Fogarty, best known for her book Wife Dressing. Par example: while Beckham says that denim "[m]ore than any other piece of clothing, jeans can show off your figure to its best" and Zoe insists that "jeans can be worn in a mile-long list of scenarios," Fogarty shows these bitches who is boss: "Blue jeans should stay in the old corral or come out only for square dancing, moonlight beach parties, or painting the back-yard furniture." Even better, while Zoe and Beckham sing their giant bug-eyed sunglasses praises, Fogarty says in her vintage guide, "Unless under a doctor's orders to be a lady in the dark, a woman wearing sun glasses indoors or at night looks like nothing more than a satire of a Hollywood glamor queen — grade B." Snap! [Style.com]

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