... that I am thirsty: When I saw a ludicrous dress of whisks (see below) in a slideshow , I thought of Compton Mackenzie's Whisky Galor...

On the left, Cautionary Tales for Children (1907), written by Hilaire Belloc and illustrated by Basil Blackwood, who decorated some of Bell...

Plum readers, Here's a small gem I found this morning: a P.G. Wodehouse interview in 1975 published in the Paris Review when he was 91...

Summer is starting its yearly conquest of Spring, and the days for wearing spring coats are dwindling. Nevertheless, when packing for my New...

A nattily dressed friend and fellow Lambist tipped me to Sir Sean Connery's annual springtime fashion charity event in New York, Dressed...

If there is one thing Anthropologie is good at, it's selling clothes—and accessories, and bed linens, and jewelry, and other do-dads—tha...

On the left, Eclipse (The Twilight Saga) by Stephanie Meyer. On the right, a look from the Talbot Runhof Fall 2010 RTW collection . I had t...