One's swell and one's awful

I just turned 45. And anyone who knows me knows that I am astounded by a statistic I learned on NPR on one of those fabulous shows full of important facts: Middle age is considered to be between the ages of 35 and 54. As my friend Suzy-Q says: "What fresh hell is this?!!" Yeesh.

I think that statistic is part of the reason I started to write about what I think and what I stand for (Note to self: find out what you think and stand for). If not now, when? I'm half way to old, for God's sake!

On a tenuously related tangent, here's something I want to share: Ladies, don't wear shirts without any pants. One would think one wouldn't have to share this information, but it seems one does. Go to this blog. It's full of awful pictures of people wearing awful clothing (or lack thereof). Unless you're Lady Gaga and your life is your art, do not wear a thong leotard with butt-less jeans. Just sayin'. My friend Suzy-Q, who cares very little for fashion but quite a lot about quirky websites, turned me on to this. It's my new obsession.

The swell website I want to share with you is WhoWhatWear. They have interesting features like "Shop the Closet" where the two bloggers share the clothes they are interested in (dresses, shoes, bags) and "What Was She Wearing" where you can plug in info on a celebrity you saw (say on PerezHilton.com - not that I ever go to that site) and find out what/who she was wearing. It's a cool feature for image consultant-type people: if you see a dress on a celeb that you think might work on a client (or on you, of course) you can find out the designer.

Finally, for the first person who can tell me what classic TV sticom I stole the title of this blog from, I will answer any nagging fashion question. But you have to be willing to let me do it here, live and in front of my one follower. Oops, it five o'clock! Hope you know what that means.