Archival Frivolity: Jabberwenchy

Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Jabberwenchy

(with apologies to Lewis Carroll)

Julia took her smartass sword in hand:
Long time the frumpish foe she sought --
Then rested she by the Bare Boobs tree
And stood awhile in thought.

One, two! One, two! And through and through
Grey's Vogue-ish blade went snarky-snack!
She left them dead, and kept her head,
Then went disdaining back.

(The original Jabberwocky.)


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From the Archives of Snark: The Nina Griscom Saga

September 25, 2003

Nina Griscom and friend at the New Yorkers For Children benefit. Pretty lady, unfortunate dress.



Now, I know where Griscom was going with this look: "Golden Girl," shiny-happy, monochrome splash, and so on, and I love that chiffonish thing at the neckline and hem, but there are a couple of things wrong here. First, as in a LOT of other party photos this fall, there is some kind of pitiful synchronous trend happening where women are turning up at important events in clothes that are way too tight at the hip/belly.

Griscom's bodice, on the other hand, is too loosey-goosey, drapy-poopy. And the glaring, mirror-like surface does what shiny fabric always does: makes the wearer look bigger. This kind of fabric is sensational as an accent or accessory (a line down the middle, around the face, as a shawl, as a full skirt) but it is designed to call attention to itself, so it's not what I would choose to use in this sloppy, unattractively highlighting fashion around a mature woman's breasts and midriff.

Another too-tight dress, at the same event (worn by Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer).




AND THIS JUST IN:

Every fashionable woman's nightmare is to see your (very expensive) dress being worn at the same event -- especially by a much more soigné woman. Nina Griscom can't wake up from this one: Alex Kramer in that "Golden Girl" number at the very same New Yorkers for Children event:



Oh, mama! Ouch!

Thursday, February 26, 2004

Alert Reader "Kathleen" sent me this photo of our old friend Nina Griscom at a recent Frick party. You might remember Nina's little faux pas back in September, when she wore the exact same dress as a skinny little model-type to the same function, and the comparison was, shall we say, unfortunate. She's still trying to play the Golden Girl, and her body is still the same age and the shiny fabric is still just as big a mistake. That necklace is too long and Way Too Much, as well. Kathleen feels that the What Not To Wear crew would be grabbing Nina's boobs and lecturing her about the essential Good Bra. I'm only glad that she seems to have been able to keep her nipples from showing through that astonishing fabric. Finally, you know I have to ask this inevitable question: What the HECK is going on with the belly of this dress? Does she have a colostomy bag under there?

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