Life Is A Formal Occasion
Met Gregg at the Farmer's Market for a drink and a snack, then went on through the pouring rain to the Apple store at The Grove (where we first met) and Barnes & Noble, where he took this picture. 
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Very elegant.
Patrick at February 6, 2010 1:08 AM
Offtopic lawlessness.
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at February 6, 2010 3:25 AM
Offtopic continuance: The smirking pedestrian has replied.
I hate phone-talkers with sharp-toothed ferocity, and Arrington can be a dork, but we can't have weasel engineers deciding that every petty violation is worth risking their life for. It's a bad example; it typifies the distorted proportions in the perception of the California Lefties, as well as their fantasies of personal heroism. Also, Tienanmen moves on their campus make Google people look dick-y, especially in view of their smug arrangements with China, only recently unraveling.
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Ontopic: Amy looks cool, but Wesley Snipes made a violent movie where he dressed like that. What title is she browsing, do you suppose?
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at February 6, 2010 7:22 AM
If only that look were liquidified graham cracker-spit-up compatible.....
momof4 at February 6, 2010 7:37 AM
Very nice, Amy. Men love a woman in a hat.
Eric at February 6, 2010 7:59 AM
That, and if only that look were compatible for much shorter women....
However, I WANT THE HAT. AND I WANT THE JACKET. Where did you find them, pleasepleasepleaseplease Amy?
Juliana at February 6, 2010 8:04 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2010/02/06/life_is_a_forma.html#comment-1693735">comment from JulianaThank you! Hat is nothing special - my hat for rain, by Betmar. Hat is wide-brimmed black version of this: Betmar Back Bay Hat.
Jacket, like so many things I own, was bought on eBay for about $20. Leather, by Marquis, says "made in Canada." Little shorty thing, moto front, which I always love. Serial on it is 76T3696, but it's probably old. Moto styles went out, but they're always in style as far as I'm concerned.
Skirt is tafetta formalwear from Loehmann's. Gregg bought it for me to wear to his reunion. KM Collections by Milla Bell. Have three of hers. Usually get them for about $60 each, discounted at Loehmann's. Wear them as everyday wear.
The coolest thing is, I get evening dresses for $20 or $30, usually, on sale, in the off season. I wore an emerald green taffeta dress with a bit of a train to write in and then to shop at Trader Joe's. I love feeling like I'm on my way to the ball, even if I'm only on my way to more cottage cheese and paper toweling. (TJ's has particularly wonderful 4 percent milkfat cottage cheese. The low-carber's version of ice cream.)
Amy Alkon
at February 6, 2010 8:33 AM
I was actually looking at the diet books on our way out to see what idiocy they're promoting (anybody who promotes eating high-carb lowfat diets is not giving scientific evidence-based advice). Working on a question this week for a girl who gained 40 lbs. in two years with her boyfriend.
Amy Alkon at February 6, 2010 8:36 AM
> Men love a woman in a hat.
Only about one woman in a hundred can pull it off. (The style, I mean, not the hat. Any woman can do that.)
Crid at February 6, 2010 9:04 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2010/02/06/life_is_a_forma.html#comment-1693746">comment from CridOh, and about that Google guy you linked to, my rule is that you can't impede/endanger other people in the name of safety or manners.
Amy Alkon
at February 6, 2010 9:09 AM
Sophia Loren...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PcDp1yK9DDU/SdZ8pxKOZbI/AAAAAAAAAhM/JVlkfI7ZY2Y/s1600-h/2041271920044785100gJjJhd_ph.jpg
You can leave your hat on...
Eric at February 6, 2010 9:11 AM
I only have one word - HAWT!
Ann at February 6, 2010 9:23 AM
As Rod Stewart says, "You wear it well..."
J.A. Jensen at February 6, 2010 9:31 AM
Oh Amy! You are wasted in our era! You should have been in the Belle Epoque!
NicoleK at February 6, 2010 10:11 AM
Amy, you totally rock that outfit! Now that I'm able to wear my smart-looking long wool coats again, maybe now is the time to heed my late fashionista mom's frequent advice to me to find a stunning hat to go with it! :-)
DorianTB at February 6, 2010 10:27 AM
Anyone remmeber that picture of Bernie Taupin's girlfriend? The hat made her seem exotic. Years later I looked at it and she was actually kinda plain. It was one of the first EJ albums, I 'll find it later.
Crid at February 6, 2010 10:30 AM
Hey, Ms. A - Did you enhance yr stylin wardrobe by that Eighth St boutique while you were Big Apping it?
http://sarahbooz.blogspot.com/2008/08/mystery-of-week-versailles-boutique-on.html
Btw - the photo has nothing on the real live doll, y'all. (No, not the boutique - Her Flameness! :)
Ronnie at February 6, 2010 10:55 AM
You look great, Amy!!Speaking of the diet book aisle, I'll be picking up the book you always recommend after gaining about 50 pounds from being on steroids. In the past I maintained a great weight that way, but blew it all to hell since being on steroids.
Kristen at February 6, 2010 12:59 PM
Sorry to hear that about the steroids. Just sucks.
Amy Alkon at February 6, 2010 2:20 PM
You look flawless, as always. I covet that skirt so badly. Was just in LA for the first time visiting my sister, and of course had to go to the Grove. That Apple store has more aggressive 'geniuses' than I've seen anywhere. And there are so many of them - at least a 3 to 1 ratio of employees to customers! But I enjoyed the fresh squeezed watermelon juice at the Mexican stand.
Mary at February 6, 2010 3:36 PM
Very nice!
crella at February 6, 2010 10:10 PM
Sophia Loren: the definition of hot!!
Richard Cook at February 7, 2010 5:39 PM
Oh, so that's what happend to Carmen San Diego!
old rpm daddy at February 8, 2010 4:23 AM
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