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Dressing with mad joie de vivre.

I loved this fashion slide show by Bill Cunningham, on its own pure merit but also as a contrast to the most recent episode of "Tim Gunn's Guide to Style."

Gunn presented us with a young woman whom the edit told us to loathe, and what had she done wrong? She had bought vivid clothes that inspired her and dared to think highly of herself and the creative way she mixed them together. You could see that that this woman had submitted herself to the show because she was a "former bikini model" who'd just had twins, but the show blindsided her with a different narrative. She was presened as deluded and obstinate, until finally she broke down and accepted Gunn's stern schooling.

Look at the older Italian woman featured in the Cunningham slide show and imagine how "Tim Gunn's Guide to Style" would treat her. They would crush her, and only when she finally accepted their "age-appropriate," somber styles would they hug her and praise her for coming to her senses. That is, they would try to crush her, and she'd probably tell them off and stomp out, and it would be unused footage from a show that never airs.

Full post as published by Althouse on October 19, 2008 (boomark / email).