January 13, 2014....Happy Birthday, Susan O.


Golden Globes aftermath...

The day after any major awards show is one of my guilty pleasure days. I love to look at what the "stars" were wearing and read the comments on how "awful" they looked and read the "grades" they received from whoever sets themselves up to judge such things. I have my own opinions, but no one ever asked me to publish, for public consumption, what those opinions are... It might be fun to evaluate these outfits, but I am way too polite to write the comments that I read today. Two women were criticized for wearing shower curtains, one was obviously pregnant and the other just got bad advice, I guess.

I would love to know how the stars selected their outfits. Do they get to choose or do the designers make offers and the stars select a designer? I know how my friends and I select dresses for special occasions and none of my friends would show up in a shower-curtainesque dress. Neither would these stars, if they shopped with me or my friends. The more important the occasion, the more brutally honest we are in the fitting room. "Take it off, now!" would have been the comment for many of these disasters....where were the best friends when they were making these blunders? Two of my nearest and dearest are marrying off daughters this year. One I will shop with, I hope, and the other has already had some of us look at pictures of dresses she likes, asking for opinions. How difficult would this be for those in the industry? Tell me, what possible excuse is there for Heidi Klum to look anything other than fabulous?

So on the occasion of the birthday of my dear, dear friend, Susan, I just want to say: Friends don't let friends shop alone...especially for important occasions!