NOW is the TIME to ORDER  for SUMMER 2012

…as are those of fashion-victim Mark Wahlberg at this year’s Golden Globe Awards.   Ever hear of the waist, which serves as a proper anchor for trousers? Marching in lock-step with millions of unwitting pawns of the twisted fashion industry makes one look Lilliputian indeed. Alas, Mr Wahlberg, a fabulous actor,  is not alone. When men wear the top of their trousers at hip-height instead of at waist-height, they rob their legs of length visually. If one’s legs look shorter than his torso, a brainwashed tailor is getting his jollies committing crimes upon the poor dupe’s image. But mindless sheep continue to wear trousers at idiotic levels, erroneously believing that if the trousers pile up on top of their shoes, it will make up for length lost at the top. Nothing says “Mindless Followers United” like  a decade and a half of dressing in what appear to be hand-me-downs from their half-witted, short-legged siblings.

 To Expound further on Bad Trousers and Idiotic “Tailoring” in General: My Piece Entitled, “Hilarious Clothes”

Back at the Golden Globe Awards: The beautiful Jessica Biel, now affianced to Justin Timberlake,  is wearing a feminine dress with long sleeves, reminiscent in some ways of the Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding gown. The site linked, which pictures her at the Golden Globes Awards, gives her dress a D-. I applaud her good taste, and give Ms Biel a high mark for standing apart from the one-shouldered, strapless-wearing followers of last year’s bad fashions. I’m not sure about the tall slit up the front of her gown, but she is much closer to perfect than the fashion victimettes who precede and follow her on the red carpet. Also, the lovely Jessica Biel would do well to wear stockings. In fact, the actresses on the red carpet should be wearing hosiery, but most of them are not. No evening gown looks finished without proper legwear, by which I mean stockings and garter-belt or at least panti-hose.

By Laura Ashley, this high-quality suit made in the U.K. is excellent for winter days and evenings.

These were times of political, social and economic upheaval in Sweden that impacted on the way that people dressed across all social classes: from ‘folk dress’ to the top echelon of Swedish society. ‘Modemakt’ at Nordiska Museet brilliantly captures and depicts these changes with original clothes, hairstyles and accessories from these epochs. The names of the people who wore these clothes have mostly been lost in the mists of time, but the Nordiska has discovered August Strindberg’s smoking jacket from the 1860s, and a pair of Courrége boots from the 1960s that adorned Swedish fashion journalist Ingrid Schrewelius.

‘Modemakt’ also includes a temporary exhibition called ‘Trend’ that focuses on contemporary clothes design in the 2000s as interpreted by twelve Swedish fashion luminaries such as J Lindberg, Cheap Monday and Camilla Norrback. Nordiska museet is the imposing building on your right as you cross the bridge to the island of Djurgården. You can get there by bus or boat in 15 minutes from the centre of Stockholm.