A Stylish Moment from the Past

I love My Mom the Style Icon, an inspiring blog about the influential and stylish people in our lives and in our past. When my mom shared a photo of her parents and my aunt from 1946, I knew I had to do a post of my own.

About the captured moment, my aunt told me, “…Daddy had just sung the Lord’s Prayer at a wedding and I remember being most impressed with him. He had sung in light opera as a young man before the war.”  

My grandparents made quite the stylish couple – him in his dapper white wool suit and my grandmother in a shirtwaist dress with shirred gloves, an oversize clutch purse and an elegant spring hat.

I’m always amazed to see where fashion comes from, and how styles we may perceive as  “new” and “in” have actually been done in some way before. My grandmother’s look would be as fabulous now as it was then!

If you have a “My Mom the Style Icon” photo you would like to share, contact me and we’ll get it posted!

I wish I had a place to wear that -- spring edition

I loved Dolce & Gabbana's Spring '11 Ready-to-Wear collection, and although I had many favorites, I think this look was tops. I love how ladylike it is, and that the lace is done elegantly, and I would style it the same: with oversize gold hoop earrings, a delicate chain purse and minimal sandals. 

So where do you think this dress belongs? Sitting al fresco at a restaurant in Miami, at a party in the Hamptons...or maybe seaside in Santorini...?

Photo: wwd.com

Love it or hate it

Do you ever come across a piece that you can't decide if you love or hate? This happens to me frequently, and although I love shopping solo, this is the time I desperately need a friend there to tell me yes or no. This darling yellow and ecru dress by Opening Ceremony just became available on shopbop.com. I love the combination of mesh with gathered twill and think the color is perfect for spring. It's quite funky.

But I'm unsure of the open mesh back -- how do wear it with, ahem, no undergarment? Or do you wear one anyway even though it will show through? And is it just too funky?

So...love it or hate it?

Photo: shopbop.com