Saturday, September 29, 2012

In good company?



 
NYC fashion icon Iris Apfel

Diahann Carroll, actress
Susan Sarandon, actress
Italian designer Rosanna Orlandi 
Sally Jesse Raphael, 80's talk show host
A friend commented on my new bug-eye specs: "You look like one of those women you always see in New York, with the huge glasses and chic scarves." I knew what she meant. I've seen those women every time I've been to the Big Apple. I'm just not sure I want to be one. As you can see from the small sampling above, big glasses can be fab or, in some cases, a fashion foul.

Inn of the Governors

The Inn of the Governors on West Alameda is where my maternal grandparents used to stay in the '60s and '70s when they'd visit ...