Sisters-in-Style! For Women Over 50! The Oscar's Fashion - Yea or Nay

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

Karl Lagerfeld

Another year of demonstrating that money does not buy style, that slavishly following the latest trends is not for everyone and that finding a great fit and colour is still important. But, who listens?

Here are some of our overall comments: Black and pale pink do not look great together, particularly with black lace. Showing less is still the classier approach and many dresses looked like they belonged to two different outfits.

You’ll also note that some dresses feature on both the best and worst-dressed lists. Among a sea of mediocrity, here are our best and worst:

Best for Sue: I loved Janelle Monae’s glittery outfit. It fitted her beautifully, had a hood and lots of glamour.

Best for Geri: Jane Fonda looks gorgeous at 82 in this beautiful red dress. Even better, she wore it years ago and it looks just as good now. I love her best with grey hair!

Honorable mentions to America Ferrara who glowed, to Mindy Kaling who looked gorgeous in yellow, to Sigourney Weaver for a great colour and shape and to Rene Zellwegger for a beautifully fitted gown, though we would have preferred another colour to white.

Worst for Sue: Cynthia Evro’s outfit looks like a wardrobe malfunction is imminent. Why do exposed breasts mean strong or fierce? Also, the bottom half looks like it used a crinoline to make it wide enough.

Worst for Geri: Rooney Mara’s outfit was wrong in so many ways, it didn’t fit, had strange cut-outs and feathers?

Other contenders: Kristen Wiig’s strange geometric shapes reminded me of Lego, Gal Godot looked like she was wearing pieces from two dresses as did Saoirse Ronan.

Fashion is a form of such ugliness, so intolerable, that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

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Geri & Sue

Has Texting Made Us Forget How to Write Proper English?

What do people do with all the extra time they save by writing “k” instead of “OK”?

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I don’t know about you but text message shorthand drives me nuts! There are books about it and websites dedicated to it. It’s bad enough that I have to look at these coded messages in a text, but text message shorthand has now crept into emails as well. If I get another email with “CU soon” instead of “see you soon”, I’m going to vomit.

I suppose that my aversion to the bastardization of the English language is due to the fact that I’m an old fart and a writer. I love language – the language of William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and Bob Dylan. At the age of 62, I come from the “letter writing age” which sadly has gone the way of cassettes, VHS and floppy discs. Personally I don’t give a hoot about cassettes, VHS and floppy discs. In fact, I embrace the cloud and on-demand viewing! But language is hallowed ground. I’d love to know what Oscar Wilde would have to say about text shorthand.

Another pet peeve from our new “age of abbreviation” is people that send you an email and only sign their first initial. I don’t know anyone whose name is so long that writing it would represent a hardship.

I suppose that this new fangled form of writing is considered progress. Although I embrace technology, I’m devoted to my Smartphone and I cut the cable cord and stream television, I can’t get on board with text message shorthand. I suppose that’s my line in the sand. I will continue to love language and to express myself with whole words, spelled out – even in a text message. So please if you’re texting me or emailing me, write out the words and write your name at the end of an email.

Was that semi-colon some kind of flirty wink or just bad punctuation?

Azadeh Aalai

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Geri

Theatre Review: Rupert Everett Channels Oscar Wilde in Judas Kiss

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Oscar Wilde

I love the theatre! I love everything about the theatre. And I’ve been extremely fortunate to see the best of the best in London, New York and in Toronto. Last week I had the unmitigated delight of witnessing one of the most magnificent performances that I’ve ever seen – Rupert Everett starring in Judas Kiss.

Until now Rupert Everett had clearly been the best interpreter of Oscar Wilde. His performances in The Importance of Being Earnest and The Ideal Husband attest to that. But, in this play, Rupert Everett didn’t interpret Oscar Wilde, nor did he play Oscar Wilde; he channelled him. It was as though Rupert was not even in the room. Oscar was present in all of his magnificence, his legendary wit and charm on full display. And after all was said and done, it was Oscar who took the curtain calls; not Rupert. For those of you like me, who share a love of everything Oscar Wilde, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to be in his presence.

Don’t miss this theatre tour de force. And, if you can afford it, spring for seats as close to the stage as possible. You won’t want to miss a single word.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

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Geri