I think today should be...

Dame Helen Mirren (born 26th July 1945)

...a "Say Something Hat" day. Don't you?

Mollie Sugden (20th July 1922 – 1st July 2009)

Theda Bara (29th July 1885 – 7th April 1955)

Estelle Getty (25th July 1923 - 22nd July 2008)

Vivian Vance (26th July 1909 – 17th August 1979

Sally Ann Howes, aka "Truly Scrumptious" (born 20th July 1930)

Dame Diana Rigg (20th July 1938 – 10th September 2020)

Gloria DeHaven (23rd July 1925 – 30th July 2016)

Lynda Carter (who was 70 on 24th July 1951)

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (28th July 1929 – 19th May 1994)

The wearing of the green

Loretta Young


Nicole Kidman's green parrot frock from the Screen Actors' Guild awards 2017


Jackie Kennedy wearing a pale green Givenchy dress


HM The Queen in 1954


Vivien Leigh's green "curtain" dress from "Gone With the Wind"

Happy Paddy's Day!

Fun spots?

Tina Turner


McGuire Sisters


Elizabeth Taylor


Jackie Kennedy

The great "leopardskin" debate continues.

One thing is for certain. Some people can take things a bit too far...





“There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.” - Lily Tomlin

Elegance is a state of mind

Oleg Cassini’s designs for Jaqueline Kennedy - "The Jackie Look" - were described by none other than the great Hollywood costumier Edith Head as the "single biggest fashion influence in history".

Alex Witchel in the The New York Times described him thus: "His name has always suggested glamour, champagne, polo ponies, a box at the opera, he was married to a movie star, and engaged to Grace Kelly before she became a princess. The son of Russian aristocrats banished to Europe after the revolution...he designs clothes that betray a lifelong ache for lost grandeur, there is about him in every gesture from knocking ash from his cigar to straightening his tie an echo of old world distinction."

Mr Cassini - whose first wife was that great style icon Gene Tierney, and among whose other myriad clients were Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable, Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood and Gina Lollobrigida - was the fashionista behind such fashions as the A-line skirt, Sheath dress and Empire Strapless gown.

It is his centenary, and even now, on the catwalks of the 21st century, his influence is everywhere.

"Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static."

Oleg Cassini (11th April 1913 – 17th March 2006)