......I say amen to her basic premise:
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.
-------------------Elizabeth Bibesco
That makes me feel so much better...what with my painted toes - in the interest of looking zippy while wearing sandals at work - and the fab magenta buttons that I used to breathe new life (a veritable third life!) into a sweater that I bought at the Salvation Army about ten years ago. :)
I'm all about the painted toes! I'm a total convert. I went and had mine redone (not a whole new pedicure, alas, just a color change). Best $7 I spent last week. It just makes me *feel* a little spumkier. Especially since a man in the grocery checkout line looked at me and said, "Nice feet!"
Tee hee!