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Golly, is fashion having an Iris Apfel moment, or what? (You can read my tribute to her style verve here. And more background here.)

She launched her jewelry line on the Home Shopping Network last year, and currently has a collaboration with MAC cosmetics.

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Totally inspiring decor in the waiting room at Rapid Lube on South Street in Danbury.

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For my friend Geoff's birthday party.

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*As in, sour/tangy, not the euphemism for a promiscuous woman…

Acid yellow-green with deep plummy purple.

This color combo was being rocked hard by South Asian girls this week.

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            Ralph Lauren ad, 2009 via Psychology Today

Airbrushing. False advertising. Negative body image. The Barbie Effect. We are all too familiar with the links between these concepts, and have all heard how the modeling and advertising industries are mostly to blame for the rise in eating disorders in youth.

According to the American Medical Association (AMA), there is a connection. The AMA recently released a statement bashing the use of photo editing, citing the above Ralph Lauren ad for whittling down a model’s waist so much, her head was bigger!

Why are airbrushed photos the defining standard of beauty, particularly for Western society? Why isn’t beauty based on what each individual defines as beauty?

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Via Advanced Style.

You all may recall my experiment with skirts and dresses earlier this year. Around that time I had a chat with a reader who wanted to re-incorporate skirts into her wardrobe, but wasn't comfortable leaping into it fully. I encouraged her to try it, and start with just one skirt-day per week.

I just received this note from her:

"I have been wearing skirts.  EVERY DAY.  At work (I'm a part-time preschool teacher), at home or trampling in the woods, I now feel more comfortable wearing skirts than pants.  Many thanks for inspiring me with your posts on the subject earlier this spring.  I feel like I've been transformed.  One of my co-workers (in her early sixties), whom I never saw in anything other than pants, has now started wearing skirts too.  On the street, if you see a woman in a skirt or dress, she's usually young.  Older women can get so resigned to wearing the same old thing all the time.

…Yes, fashion can be very powerful.  What we wear sends a message to others whether we realize it or not.  Thank you for the encouragement to go against the nap by wearing skirts.  I feel both more feminine and more comfortable."

Amazing. I am humbled.

I met up with Shannon again last week, and she was rockin' the earthy vibes with this amazing embroidered tunic. I also love how she pinned a Celtic knot brooch to her jeans.

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And the award for bestest blog readers goes to…

Image via Marquis & Camus

… Mary Helen and Lydia, for valor and bravery in heeding the distress call of a frazzled blogger/wage slave/student/designer/stylist.

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Ch. 1

This building greeted me and Hubz as we pulled off the highway into Philadelphia last weekend. It’s located on Vine Street, just north of Chinatown.

I can’t tell if it’s actually very well-preserved wall paper from the adjacent building (now a parking lot) or a more recent addition of very creative street art. I have my spies working to find out more about it.

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…even if you are one.

Here is interior decorator and NYC social fixture Iris Apfel, photographed by Roger Davies for the June 2011 issue of Architectural Digest.

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