Are you STRESSED... or Just Happy to See Me?

A hardee, har, har. 

Ecouterre shared this little techno fashion nugget last week and it's too good to pass up so - get this:

Microsoft is developing a brassiere that monitors your stress level and will alert you, via phone of course, when you're in danger of overeating due to stress.  Um.... hmmmm.

Well, I agree with the article, VERY sexist to say nothing of absurd.  If I got beeped every time stress levels hit warp speed I'd be forced to chuck the stupid contraption out the window in the fast lane thus risking a littering ticket, throwing my eco principals to the wind and therefore raising heart rate levels past *ludicrous to plaid speed.  We all know when we stress eat, so telling us isn't going to help much.  A glove that shocked my hand every time I reach for food, on the other hand....


*Spaceballs reference if you've forgotten the ways of Lord Dark Helmet.

Never underestimate the power of the schwartz.

QUOTidienne - Lauren Hutton

Lauren Hutton in this week's Net-a-Porter magazine:   ...Just don’t ever tell her that she “has it all”. “I hate that phrase. The worst thing is I might have had something to do with its invention. I was 30 on the cover of People and there it was in the headline. A little chill went up my back: there’s no such thing, and to tell women there might be is bad. Anything that creates pressure on women is bad.”

 I love this woman.

Lauren Now

Lauren Then

QUOTidienne - RIP Lilly Pulitzer

Lilly Pulitzer we love you.

“That’s what life is all about: Let’s have a party. Let’s have it tonight.”

"Despite the forecast, live like it's spring."

 Click for other fantastic words to live by, courtesy of the indomitable Ms. Pulitzer.

Heavenly rack of Lilly P

 


 My favorites are always the wild 1960s Lillys -

How could one possibly have a bad day in this dress?

CHANEL dreams = "Chanelarella"

I clicked through - twice - the Fall/Winter 2013 slideshow for Chanel last night and had patent leather cuissardes* dreams 'til dawn.  Some beautiful jackets, coats and perfect silhouette images kept them company. 'Still glowing. In love, in love, in love.  
Of course a good Karlism came with the glorious package, "I've got my feet on the ground, but this collection is up-to-earth, not down-to-earth."

My favorite dress, worn with impeccable grace here by Stella Tennant, is so Barbarella + Chanel it can only be dubbed Chanelarella, don't you agree?  Add a wacky space gun....

Jane in all here splendid glory

 

*Cuissardes - a fancy French word I've added to my vocab courtesy of Style.com.  It translates to "waders",  although I doubt Karl had anything so odoriferous as fishing attire in mind when he conjured them.

Cuissardes - commit it to memory, we're going to see a lot of them...

QUOTidienne - Captain Jack

Oh! Captain Jack, how we love thee.  But you knew that.

QUOTidienne - Charles Eames

Observations

...from a 'Chili

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Ace Advice

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky, hockey ace.

What you Eat Tells All - ACK!

I just read the most inspiring article on Kris Carr's marvelous blog.  It's called Three Ways to Find Peace With Food - READ IT!!!   By: Jackie Vecchio  a holistic health coach and founder of Peace in Every Bite, where she helps women end the food insanity and make peace with themselves

Wow.  Two exerpts that hit home:

"Geneen Roth wrote in her book, “Women, Food, and God:” “No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.” "

"Often, what we are craving is the pleasure of eating, not the food itself."

I'll have a double helping of more pleasure please.