Jezebel: thursday styles

Deep Thoughts

Sadie — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:30:00 EDT

"Wearing your pants nonchalantly tucked into your boots requires not only fastidious attention to detail, but also the right boots and pants." [New York Times]

Fashionistas Love Their Dirty, Greasy Follicles

Jennifer — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:30:00 EST

Today's New York Times reports that one of the fastest rising "beauty trends" among the East Coast elite is not washing one's hair, or, at the very least, washing it infrequently (as was the norm in the earlier part of the 20th century.) Says one Bumble & Bumble stylist: "A lot of cute younger girls want something fun but stylish, so they get a kind of beehive that they then milk for as long as they can. From that, they take it out and it's sort of textured and messy and it has good wave and body from all the back-combing that was done. It's so many hairstyles in one." (Is Amy Winehouse to blame?)

The "trend" has extended all the way to the southern hemisphere: Sydney radio host Richard Glover is encouraging his listeners to give up any sorta cleansing when it comes to their heads. 86% of people who have participated in the experiment claim that their hair looks the same, if not better, than when they regularly wash it. Says Glover: "We're tired of feeling like cogs in the machinery of consumption. There's this feeling of liberation to be able to say no to an entire aisle of the supermarket."

Of Course I Washed My Hair Last Year (I'm Almost Certain) [NY Times]
Earlier: Awesome British Lass Gives Women's Magazines Her Best Left Hook

Insanely Wealthy Pay Fellow Preppy Scads of Money To Arrange Grown-Up Frat Parties

Jessica — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:00:00 EST

The New York Times "Thursday Styles" section has always been a repository for ridiculous trend pieces about the über-wealthy (see the entire oeuvre of Alex Kuczynski ), but the piece in today's edition about Exeter grad Allison Storr is even more outrageous than the usual paean to $1,000 socks. Storr is a "personal manager," which means CEOs, real estate barons and corporate lawyers pay her to choose their wardrobes, tastes and friends. Because they're way too busy and important to spend time on piddling things like interpersonal relationships. Anyway! Storr earns $4,000 to $10,000 a month to be a "personal decider in nearly all things lifestyle-related" for the rich and stupid. The best part of the article, though, is the description of a party Storr planned for a partner in a top shelf NYC law firm. "Last summer, Ms. Storr organized an '80s theme party at the lawyer's house in the Hamptons for about 200 of his friends, with a $5,000 budget," frequent wealth-chronicler Deborah Schoeneman writes.

$5,000 for an '80s theme party?!?!? Um, the brothers of Beta Delta Zeta called, they want their party idea back.

"It was honestly one of the most fun parties out there," the lawyer said. "By now all my friends know that Allison works for me." In all fairness, most big shot lawyers are just overgrown frat boys with paunches and graying hair, so maybe Storr is actually ingenious instead of insanely derivative. She's laughing all the way to the bank with this racket. I have a really great idea for a disco inferno winter soiree if any of you CEOs out there are in need of a new "personal decider"...

Need a Life? She'll Arrange One [New York Times]

Antler-Chic Quite Possibly Result Of Iraq War, Disney Film

Jennifer — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:47:09 EDT

Normally, we love NY Times style writer Eric Wilson. But the alarm bells went off the moment he began a Thursday Styles piece today with the phrase "Nature is so in."

Specifically, says Eric, when it comes to home and fashion design, antlers are en vogue. Could be a protest against the Iraq War, says one trendsetter. Perhaps it's a return to nature, says another. But Eric has other ideas!

Still, many people seem to like them as florid decorative embellishment, though they are not exactly sure why, or whether they are politically correct. One may recall that it was the oafish Gaston, in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," who delivers the line in song, "I use antlers in all of my decorating." So does most of Brooklyn.

Next week: Cathy Horyn's takes on the trend of the shell-bra among momzillas on the Upper West Side, as inspired by The Little Mermaid.

If There's a Buck in It Somewhere [NYTimes]