The Thoughtful Dresser

I've created a group for people interested in the US publication of The Thoughtful Dresser. Go to Facebook for news, comments and some Q...

By Clarks

The US edition will be published by Scribner on 20 April. You can pre-order from Amazon. Please note, this is not a collection of posts from...

My piece from today's Guardian As I walked down Oxford Street a couple of weeks ago, my eyes slid to the left and I noticed a window fu...

Mimi Weddel and I shared a birthday. I'm always fascinated by the lives of those born on February 15. She was a New York model who breez...

Apologies to all of you who have been missing this blog. The fact is, I've been in another world, the world of writing a new novel, and ...

Check out the old dames and old geezers on Advanced Style which the Manolo kindly just sent me a link to

In 1979 I went to a meeting Vancouver and heard thrilling accounts from Iranian socialist feminists about how they donned the chador to orga...

Amongst the recent frenetic media coverage of the juvenile behaviour of some of Gordon Brown’s former cabinet members The New Statesman has ...

A new MEP (elected) and what we might do about

Because life has been unstructured of late, what with hospital visits and live televison appearances ( a slight exaggeration) I missed anoth...

My Greek Cypriot hairdresser warned me yesterday that if I even thought of not voting for Stavros Flatley in the final of Britain's Got...

It was raining heavily on Tuesday morning and I was going to the gym. And the umbrella stand in the hall was empty. And there was no umbrell...

Yesterday, there was a half hour interview with Will, Kelly and Nigel on Radio Five Live, which you can listen to here , and which gives a g...

For several months this site benefited from the insightful analysis of 'Harry Fenton' in real life, my friend Nigel Pike. Last Novem...

Back in the day, there was an amazing magazine called Nova, the intelligent woman's guide to life, fashion, politics and the rest. I ad...

I'm sure that there are many readers of this site who are better dressed than Susan Boyle , better looking, with better figures and more...

scene from In the Loop released Friday which I saw at a press screening today.

What size was Marilyn Monroe? A Times journalist tries on her clothes . As I tentatively tried to coerce my way into the Some Like It Hot ...