Category Archives: Friday Fashion

Friday Fashion: Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear

Seraphic Secret likes to follow trends in fashion. Our mission is to bypass the slutwear that parades as cutting edge design and focus instead on beautifully tailored outfits that are both flattering, ladylike, and modest. As always, we do not highlight pant suits; they are a crime against femininity. We are happy to report that [...]

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Friday Fashion: Hollywood Hats

There was a time when wearing a hat was  de rigueur. Fine millinery was considered a sign of good taste, good breeding and good fashion. Hollywood actresses were rarely seen in public without hat, gloves and a designer outfit. Those were the days when Hollywood insisted on projecting style and glamour. Of course, with the destruction [...]

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Friday Fashion: Bag Ladies

Freud famously queried: What do women want? Poor Sigmund, he was so wrapped up in his theories (and cocaine) that he was incapable of looking at flesh and blood women and seeing the obvious: Women want shoes and handbags. Usually, but not exclusively, in that order. Here are a few of the latest fashion offerings [...]

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Friday Fashion: Modesty Gaze

Seraphic Secret likes to follow trends in fashion. Our mission is to bypass the slutwear that parades as cutting edge design and focus instead on beautifully tailored outfits that are both flattering, ladylike, and modest. As always, we do not highlight pant suits; they are a crime of fashion. Speaking of crimes of fashion: We [...]

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Friday Fashion: Bag Ladies

Seraphic Secret believes that fashion is more than a frivolous pursuit for the rich and idle. Everyone wants to look good. Everyone dresses and primps in order to create an attractive shell. The image we present to the public is an idea of self: glamour babe, rock star, chaste girl, sports guy, yeshiva student, disaffected [...]

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Friday Fashion: Hollywood The Old is New

Every once in a while Seraphic Secret come across a Hollywood photo that isn’t a burnished glamour shot but a portrait of the star caught in a more casual, more intimate moment. Quite often, the resulting look transcends both time and place in terms of fashion and style. Above, in the early 1950′s, is—who else?—Brigitte [...]

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Bag of Tricks

In Rear Window, 1954, Grace Kelly’s elegant Mark Cross bag emerges as something of a major character, a twin symbol of desire—Kelly cooly snaps opens the bag, unfurling a fetching neglige—and the domesticity Jimmy Stewart finds so intimidating. Women’s handbags are more than repositories of oh-so-necessary possessions but a reflection of a woman’s priorities in [...]

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Ready-to-Wear Fall 2011

As Seraphic Secret noted in our first view of Fall’s RTW designs, there is a move away from harlot couture and a return to modest, lady-like styles. Hemlines have plunged to 1930′s Adrian lengths, and arms are frequently dressed in femme fatale leather gloves. This season’s best silhouettes bring to mind the tailored architectural elegance [...]

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Ready-to-Wear Fall 2011

It’s a dirty job but somebody’s gotta do it. Analyze style, fashion and pick out the looks most appropriate for readers who are religiously observant but deeply glamorous and cool. Loyal, and maybe not-so-loyal Seraphic Secret readers are aware that we consider fashion, like movies, a moral landscape. What we wear in the public sphere [...]

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Friday Fashion: Old Hat

Screening classic Hollywood movies is a constant reminder of the hyper glamour that was intrinsic to the magic of the silver screen. Even “gritty” Film Noir productions featured a femme fatale so dolled up it’s no wonder the male became a helpless tool, committing murder and mayhem for the dangerous dame. Think Barbara Stanwyck in [...]

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