girls who wear glasses

I find myself extremely fortunate to be now living in a time where people who choose to be full-on glasses-wearers have a great deal of aesthetic options available to them in frame styles.  It is an important decision to make, and I personally go for a thick acetate most of the time.  I feel that we are at a place in our society where we are finally accepting four-eyed folk, and glasses themselves have become more of a compliment and less of an impediment to the face.  My favorite thing to see are people, beautiful or no, in a lovely pair of lenses, and there is nothing quite like a well-cultivated sexy librarian vibe.  Here is a collection of some fine dames in spectacles.....

Print by Sarah McNeil

sexy lamp for a sexy lady

familiar face

this category would be most incomplete without big T

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T h a i W e s t e r n

Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng's Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) is a beautiful blend of 1920s Asian cigarette ads and stern Clint Eastwood westerns.  The plot is descent - revenge, romance, betrayal - but the script is sticky and watching it feels a little like trudging along.  One is better off just taking in the stunning visuals and lulling soundtrack, and appreciating the bubbly roll of Thai, which I cannot understand but enjoy nevertheless.

s c r a t c h e d

I found great pleasure last week in scratching vigorously into this wooden shoe form.  I see these all the time at garage sales, and when I got the notion to try a pseudo-scrimshaw project, it was something on-hand and interesting enough on its own to fit the bill.  I tinted it with leftover woodstain and I quite like its result.

These have a pheasant motif inspired by Scandinavian folk art and ribbons/banners on the underside....

h e l l o n u r s e

I don't understand the chronology of the nurse uniform, but I feel confident in stating that it has deteriorated in sex appeal since the early 1900s.  How did we come so far to sink so low?  You do away with the capes and paper hats and introduce instead lifeless scrubs with tacky printed fabric, your pattern options for which fall in the range of snoopy and fat cats in sunglasses.  I know zee-coils are more comfortable for standing than pumps, but couldn't we at least have back a discernible waistline? I know that I personally will not be entering the medical profession for a number of reasons, but an aesthetic change couldn't hurt...