SubscribeFashion lessons from childhood fiction
Video: Advice for Girls From ‘The Little Mermaid’
I never realized until this moment how many life lessons my favorite childhood film taught me. This is probably why I’m a kleptomaniac.
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Disney Princes Teach Men How To Attract Women
They forgot that you’re supposed to subtly neg them. But other than that, this advice seems pretty spot on, despite the whole disturbing, Joe Millionaire aspect of Aladdin (which I had never considered until this moment). – Buzzfeed… More »
Fashion Lessons From Childhood Fiction: 101 Dalmatians
Look, except for the whole “kidnapping puppies and killing them” thing, Cruella De Vil was pretty awesome. And vaguely reminiscent of Coco Chanel! Except for the villainy. And the thugs. And the theft. Still, regardless, Cruella, you had some fashion lessons for all of us. Lessons like:
Two Toned Hair Can Work: Especially if you contrast it with your outfit. Not that we endorse the puppy thing, but we can see how Cruella’s strip of white and black would look pretty… More »
Fashion Lessons From Childhood Fiction: Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre taught me a about the ways women were trapped in Victorian society (hint: literally). Also, she taught me a lot about hair. Both lessons were important (but the hair one, more important). Below, some of the most memorable fashion lessons:
Curly Hair Is Awesome: You realize that the boarding school Jane is sent to is awful is when the scholmaster ridicules a girl name Julia Severn for wearing her hair in curls (it’s natural!) and cuts it off so… More »
Fashion Lessons From Childhood Fiction: Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins. We learnt a lot from the lessons you deliberately taught us, but more from the lessons that you did not teach. You know. The fashion lessons. Such as:
Carry an Enormous Bag: A carpet bag, okay? Because if you have a smaller bag all your stuff is going to get crammed in there, and you’ll constantly be all, “oh, where is my iPhone? DID I LOSE MY iPhone?” It’s never lost, it’s always just buried in the deepest corner… More »
Fashion Lessons From Childhood Fiction: Auntie Mame
Okay, it’s possible that you didn’t read Auntie Mame over and over and over when you were eight years old (it’s not Little Women). But you should have, because it would have taught you that life is a banquet and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death. Also, that it would be great to be a madcap aunt raising an orphaned boy (debatable, though it seemed to work for Auntie Mame and Patrick, mostly). Regardless, if you haven’t read it,… More »
Fashion Lessons From Childhood Fiction: Little Women
17 years after the first time I read Little Women, I still can’t believe that Jo didn’t end up with Laurie. However, in the movie version, in light of American Psycho and that time when he just started yelling at the grip on set, Christian Bale/Laurie seems oddly menacing (especially in the scene when he tells Meg she’s dressed like a slut), so it’s less upsetting than it is in the book. But was there also some fashion in the… More »
Fashion Lessons from Childhood Fiction: Madeline
Madeline, you made us want to wear an enormous hat for all occassions. You also made us a little bit less afraid of nuns, and gave us a strange passion for dressing in primary colors that lasted until we turned six. And then, there was so many other fashion lessons. Lessons like these:
God, You Should Really Just Move to France: “In an old house in Paris/lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.” Try substituting the world “Duluth” for Paris…. More »
Fashion Lessons From Childhood Fiction: Eloise
Oh, to be a children’s book character invented by Kay Thompson (whose other claim to fame was playing Maggie Prescott, the pink- thinking editor in Funny Face). Rumor has it Kay created Eloise after drunkenly driving onto a friend’s lawn; upon stumbling out of the car she announced that she was not Kay Thompson but Eloise, and that she was age six. Well, so are we all, sometimes.
And we should all incorporate the valuable fashion lessons of the Eloise books… More »
