This game is very difficult. Why did I wait until now to really want to learn this? Why did I wait til my latter years to learn golf? Can I blame my career, my marriage, my children ... for not having the time? In golf you discover you have split personalities ... your good twin comes out one day and then the terrible twin appears the next ... or they both show up and fight from hole to hole!!!
So what happened? I went on an exercise binge one very snowy weekend. I overdid it, hurt my neck, and now I have vertigo. I had to be walked home from class as I was too dizzy (just wait til you read my reviews ... chalk some up to dizziness). That ended my “getting in shape” moment. A friend said to me “I have no sympathy for you. You are trying to do things you could do thirty years ago. You are not that young and will get hurt!”
However, I do love going to the movies (unlike my friend Blair). I even love the greasy popcorn, and do permit myself to buy it from time to time. I can go to the movies alone, and I do, often. This has been an incredible season for film.
Now to the shows. It is winter and showing next winter’s clothes. So that is easy. You can imagine yourself or your reader wearing those. But can you? Yesterday I saw a show with some absolutely fabulous Manolo Blahnik over the ankle high high heel boots. Since I had to jump slush and puddles to get to the show I wondered if those Blahnik boots would work?
![]() | ![]() | | My uniform for the shows. | ![]() |
This season, many designers opted out of the Lincoln Center Mercedes-Benz show center, which has become more like a circus. These designers are very talented and their shows are very important. Sadly none of them are reachable via public transportation. They are, in the warmer weather, but not when it is below freezing and icy and snowy (and slushy). It will be amusing, but I apologize in advance if I bitch, which I shall try to minimize because I am so very lucky to be attending the shows.
Friends ask what I wear to the shows. Since I am not going to be seen, but rather to work, I no longer feel the need to show off, or wear something new from each major designer. Therefore I dress as I have for the past six weeks in the cold: black leggings (sometimes over black silk long underwear from L.L.Bean), black silk turtle neck underwear top under a black tunic-length cashmere sweater, long black cashmere gloves, black knit cap (think Ali MacGraw in “Love Story”), black cashmere scarf, black down Moncler hooded jacket or black down (brand new) Prada long coat ... and the very best shearling-lined knee-high black Celt boots from Cornwall (I bought those many years ago in London and wore only occasionally until this year).
If it warms up I may change to black pants, white shirts, black crew neck, and flat-soled ankle boots!
I forgot to add one thing! Sunglasses to battle the sun and the wind. Last week I had to go to a new dentist. It was very cold and my nose was running and my eyes were tearing. I was wearing contact lenses. The office gave me some forms to fill in, which I could not read. I told the receptionist to which she said, “you have a contact lens on your right cheek and another on your left!!!"
Wednesday, February 5
![]() | ![]() | | The hair for Lisa Perry's show — simple and long (and good for staying warm!). | ![]() |
LISA PERRY
Despite the slush it certainly was easy enough for me to attend the Lisa Perry show. Her store is directly across the street from where I live! Thus to get in practice I left a very humiliating bridge lesson, and trudged from 67th to 77th and Madison. The streets were clear of snow, and I thanked each workman shoveling to make them so. Crossing street corners was hysterical — thankfully they had not iced over as of yet. Instead: deep slush. I decided this would be my new exercise class!
Lisa Perry's collection was short, sweet, cheery. Her models were leggy and leggier. Frederic Fekkai had done simple long hair. They looked great. Lisa's clothes were full and slightly tented. There were only 20 pieces. All were shown with some smashing Blahnik over the ankle very high heel boots in a cross banded design of white with black or grey with black.
They would not have worked in our present weather however. Some of the clothes were heavy felt, making them puff, as in a great black dirndl skirt. The colors were black, emerald green, bright purple, grey, and silver. There was also a pale "maze," which either was off-white or pale-pale yellow, always with black flocking.
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