tbqh i dont really hang around any playgrounds!
― stepmomster (Lamp), Thursday, 21 July 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/fashion/women-enjoy-the-cool-comfort-of-summer-dresses.html?scp=2&sq=dresses&st=cse
― max, Thursday, 21 July 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
oh god
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
“Dresses are almost always looser and less constricting than pants or a skirt,” said Ms. May, 27.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
Hazel Honeysuckle of Brooklyn
^^even the writer of '500 days of summer' would roll his eyes at this
― tupac, bach (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
I myself have noticed that interesting new fad
― iatee, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
"DRESSES"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
i bet in that article somebody says they're empowering
Periwinkle Pineapple, 23, a student
― tupac, bach (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Charlton Chokeberry, 45, hedge fund manager
― remy bean, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
bettina and whitney may (no relation)
― stepmomster (Lamp), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.hazelhoneysuckle.com/
― buzza, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
Sultana Pip, 31, best-selling author
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
slack sprits
what is this :/
― dayo, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
combining it w/ the rockaway hipster trend = masterful
― iatee, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
“The Delicate Flower of Burlesque”
Hazel Honeysuckle began her burlesque career at Jo Weldon’s NY School of Burlesque, making her debut on the stage of the Slipper Room. A childhood ballerina, Hazel developed her love for performing in weekend recitals, with tutus and sequined costumes in tow. Later experience in ballroom dancing fueled the desire for elegance and poise. She has now traded up to rhinestoned pasties, and developed a true love for the glamour of the golden age of burlesque, and the women (both then and now) who paved the way for today’s performers.
― buzza, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
really great reporting there by the nyt
― tupac, bach (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Jo Weldon’s NY School of Burlesque
... no, really?
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.schoolofburlesque.com/
― buzza, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
Ms. May and Ms. Akkari were but two in a random selection of women interviewed this month in the city who, when temperatures soar, reach for a dress, fashion’s little coping mechanism against stale air, slack sprits and the much-too-taxing question of what to wear.
A RANDOM SELECTION OF WOMEN
― j., Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
"Hello, Miss? Can I have a moment of your time? Are you wearing a dress right now? No? OK, thank you!"
― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
quote from Kristi Schiller supposedly:“oil is hovering at $100 and I am a 'shiny' girl – as oil escalates I will only get flashier, eventually the ring I will wear will come with its own welding cap”
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
my friend Angie told me she likes to wear dresses when she's going to get drunk because there's no un/zipping involved. I declined to ask whether this was about peeing or sex.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Personally I can say that it makes peeing a hell of a lot easier, but you can still accidentally tuck your hem into your underpants or something. If you wear underpants.
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
well THAT'S a problem with a built-in solution
― j., Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Bruce Springsteen struck a similar chord, crooning “in the cool of the evening light/The girls in their summer clothes/Pass me by,”
That line doesn't even have the word "dresses" in it!
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, that's where I was going with that.
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
lol, when i saw the treehouse piece this morning i KNEW someone would beat me to posting it here
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 July 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
The treehouse piece delivers right out of the gate with the caption on the photo: Dan Burnham spent nearly $248,000 on playhouses (“adorable and worth every penny”) near Santa Barbara, Calif.
Adorable and worth every penny.
But if I try hard enough, I can make my law school loans appear more manageable by reminding myself that they are nowhere near as much as Dan Burnham's treehouse.
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Friday, 22 July 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
OMG, I came here to post about the treehouse piece! What's funny is that I was reading that section and came across this photo essay on a treehouse with heater, shower, etc. Then I realized it wasn't a treehouse but a real house, yet the treehouse piece was so ridiculous I was fully willing to believe it was about a treehouse with all mod cons.
Loved the line of reasoning from the former Playboy model (and now blogger), married to the oil exec in Houston. Something like, "they're only young once, and childhood flies by so quickly ..." Yes! That's why you don't build them six figure treehouses!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 July 2011 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
I just realized that even when I was broke I would not wear clothes like that.
― YO MAMA. (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 22 July 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
The tossed off "former playboy model turned blogger" line was actually my favorite thing in the whole piece -- as though playboy model were a career, and she had made a career change.
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 July 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
as though blogger were a career, you mean
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 July 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
snap
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 July 2011 08:20 (twelve years ago) link
actually I think my favorite line from that piece is the totally self-defeating
"The list goes on."
As if trying to top the playhouse piece, just up is a trend story about wealthy families chartering private planes to shuttle their kids to summer camp.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 July 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
the ending kind of makes it
But some parents have already tired of this private-plane status infiltrating the simpler world of summer camp. Nancy Chemtob, a divorce lawyer, made several summer trips to Maine in the past decade, where her children attended camp. She once managed to get on a charter plane from the airport in East Hampton, N.Y., for $750 (her husband had hung a sign in the airport seeking a ride). After listening to enough banter among parents about “who is flying, who is flying private, who they can get a lift home with,” she decided she “was done with Maine and the planes and all of the people.”“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.
“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.
― flop's son (dayo), Monday, 25 July 2011 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
What happened to the character-building bus journey from Port Authority to summer camp?
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Monday, 25 July 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
lmaoooo
― ice cr?m, Monday, 25 July 2011 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
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― mookieproof, Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:59 PM Bookmark
Actually I meant both, I just didn't phrase it well.
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 July 2011 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
u guys are gonna need a new quiddities thread soon. I missed this treehouse thing but am not gonna load 3600 posts.
― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 July 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Monday, July 25, 2011 8:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Seriously. This is incredible.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Monday, 25 July 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
so I saw the print copy today and this is a FRONT PAGE STORY
― iatee, Monday, 25 July 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
It's win-win for the times. Rich people are narcissistic and enjoy reading stories about themselves, poor people (ie the rest of us) are masochistic and enjoy reading stories about rich people.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 July 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
this has to be the best ending to any newspaper article... ever?
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 July 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
i mean legitimately, newspaper articles aren't usually ones for a big bang at the end, but that's the shit right there
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 July 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
at this point you could argue that the nyt must be self-aware w/ this stuff and is trying to kindle a class war
― iatee, Monday, 25 July 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
how do i dl class war to my kindle
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link