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Best of FameCrawler - Week of May 29th

Whit Honea — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Mike Tyson's 4-Year-Old Daughter Dies

Madonna Dishes on A-Rod and Kate Hudson

Confirmed - Gisele is Pregnant With Tom Brady's Baby!

Nicole Richie, Dad Lionel & Daughter Harlow (PHOTOS)

Sneak Peek! Jon & Kate Plus 8 Season Premiere

Kelly Rutherford, Lies and Videotape

Amy Mickelson's Breast Cancer Battle

Michelle Williams and Daughter Matilda Support Their Local Coffee House

Angelina Jolie: Madonna Adopts For Fame

Jon & Kate - Who Are The Kids Happier With? (Photos)

Slumdog Kids Finally Get A Home!

Brian Grazer's Prenup Still Makes Wife Rich

Best of FameCrawler - Week of May 22nd

Whit Honea — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Gosselins are Good for a Gander

Katie Holmes Sets a Bad Example For Suri

Mormon Marie Osmond Supports Her Gay Daughter!

Stars Come Out For American Idol Finale: Brad Garrett and Kids Max and Hope

Barbara Walters To Interview John Edwards' Mistress Rielle Hunter!?

Bristol Palin and Son Tripp Cover People

Angelina Catches Brad and Jen Aniston Together!

Kate Gosselin Blogs Her Troubles Away

Matt Damon: Bourne to Be a Dad

Pregnant Lauren London & Lil Wayne Will Raise Baby Together!!!

Kelly Clarkson Looks Like She's Pregnant!

Caption This, Julia Roberts (or Don't)

Best of FameCrawler - Week of May 15th

Whit Honea — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Tom Cruise Pressuring Katie For Another Baby?

Dirk Nowitzki's Fiance Arrested?

Comedian Wanda Sykes & Wife Alex Welcome Twins!

Jada Pinkett Smith a Lesbian?

Julie Bowen Welcomes Twin Boys

Mary Stuart Masterson Has Reason to Smile!

Manny Ramirez Busted!

Chyler Leigh Welcomes Daughter Anniston

Sean Penn Still Dating Natalie Portman, Robin is Pissed!

Kate Gosselin's Heartbreak: Jon & I May Separate

Look, Look, It's Another Octomom Story

Jon Gosselin Shelled Out Big Bucks To Buy Mistress Presents

Taking Style Tips From Your Daughter

SunnyChanel — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:31:00 GMT

I don’t know about your kid, but mine has a penchant to dictate to me what I should be wearing at all times. And generally it’s something completely inappropriate, such as a party dress for a trip to the supermarket or heels and a tank top when it’s raining. In her eyes I “dress like a boy”. See, boys wear pants. Girls i.e. “princesses” wear skirts and dresses. Her fashion constraints are pretty damn concise and she tries to sell them to me with oodles of conviction. Apparently I am in good company. As reported in The Times Online piece "Should Mums Take Style Tips from Their Daughters?", Kate Winslet takes her eight-year-old daughter’s opinion of her clothing seriously. She recently stated that her “mum” wears too much black, a city dwelling sin that I am also guilty of.

The Times fashion editor, Lisa Armstrong, explored the daughter/mother clothing dilemma saying “When it comes to their mother's appearance, all daughters have views, ranging in ferocity from mildly scathing to fathomless reservoirs of scorn.” To avoid the scorn and the scathing, contributor Carol Midgley allowed her five-year-old daughter to dress her in, among other things, a salmon pink evening gown that made her looks like a “thick-waisted prawn”. Which just begs the conclusion that Armstrong came to that ,“I don't mean we should heed the stuff from five-year-olds about how they'd want us to dress like Barbie…” Yes, that is why I try never to let my own little fashionista near my closet.

If your daughter had her druthers, what would she dress you in?

Mine, a hot pink party dress with oodles of tulle (see her fantasy mommy dress above). Classy? Or maybe just Barbie.

Forget Michelle Obama - Sasha and Malia Are the Fashion Icons in the Family

SunnyChanel — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:30:00 GMT

There is much being written about Michelle Obama being deemed as the second coming of Jackie O, in the realm of style icons that is. But she won’t be the only one in the first family living in the fashion fish bowl. Ten-year-old daughter Malia and seven-year-old Sasha are both already making their mark in the annals of style.

The dresses that the girls wore on election night, the stunning silk taffeta red Biscotti dress that Malia wore and adorable black party dress by Iris and Ivy that Sasha sported, have both already sold out from the companies that made them. But with a little searching you can still nab one from a couple online retailers (like Neiman Marcus and Nordstom’s for about $110). To fill the overwhelming request for Malia’s dress, the Wall Street Journal's fashion blog reported that Biscotti is going to rush to produce more units of the red number and that they will be ready in three weeks, just in time for the holidays.

Although no longer available, the company that makes the Iris & Ivy dress that Sasha wore, already has planes to retool the dress. They will release an updated version of it, naming it “the Sasha”, of course. The dress retailed for $72.

There has been a variety of criticism from the blogoshere about the cost of the dresses, some thinking that $110 and $72 is an illustration of elitist spending for a piece of clothing that the girls will soon outgrow. But seeing the price tags on countless party dresses on the market, these prices aren’t outrageous at all. If splurging on a fancy dress isn’t appropriate for when your dad is elected president, then really when is it?

In Hard Economic Times, Bonnie Fuller Knows What Women Want

Kelly Mills — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:36:00 GMT

Lots of people have been saying that in this election, women finally matter. At last our concerns and issues are being heard and addressed as though we, you know, made up half the population or something. And clearly one of the issues that matters to women is the economy, what with how it affects all our lives and all. So it makes sense that Bonnie Fuller, in her NY Times blog post, would want to examine what matters to women in these troubled and uncertain financial times. Is it health care costs? Job security? The high price of food and gas? Planning for our retirements (ha!) or trying to save in case the kids want to go to college?

Uh, no. According to Fuller, what matters to us is... our looks.

Yes, while we may feel the wolf at the door, we apparently still shell out money for our pricey hair stylists and our Botox. Oh, but let's clarify: By "women" she means women who live in New York. And she knows what they all want, because she "canvassed" some stylists, plastic surgeons, cosmetic companies, and "even" body waxers. (What's up with that, Bonnie? Don't minimize the importance of the waxers.) Do my frequent quotation marks indicate that I think her ideas are about as helpful as an untreatable rash? Here's her closer: "Time will tell, I guess, but the anecdotal evidence suggests that New York women may end up living in a box on the West Side Highway, but we’ll still have fabulous highlights and perfectly shaped eyebrows!"

Cough.

So we could debate the ideas that spring to mind here, whether women are vain or held to a higher aesthetic standard that relates to their employment prospects, but this piece proves the trend of women clinging to Botox as much as it proves fairies exist, so it ain't worth it. Maybe I'll canvas some women and ask if during a time when people are worried about being able to provide for their children, if Fuller actually makes women look bad or if she's just more like a really annoying gnat, and we'd be better off ignoring her and hoping she finds an open window somewhere.

A third of parents no longer saving for college

Explaining financial troubles to the kids

Stretch Marks Are the Scourge of Western Civilization

Adrienne Martini — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Eight months into my first pregnancy, I marveled at the fact that I didn't have any stretch marks. What I didn't know is that they were all lurking under that big belly full of baby, in the spots that I couldn't see and that the spouse was too polite to point out. Of all of the many (many) indignities of pregnancy, this is the one that really chaps my behind, mostly because there isn't a darn thing you can do about them. Or is there?

The New York Times takes on stretch marks in their Style section, which seems to be the home of all of the news that isn't actually news to anyone with a pulse. My last favorite Style story was about kids destroying your interior design. To which we all say: Duh.

Still, as it turns out, various creams and potions that promise to reduce stretch marks might work, unless they don't. The only sure cure is to have laser treatments or use Retin-A, which is more than I'm willing to go, given that I don't make my living modeling bathing suits or underpants.

You, however, may feel differently. Or be an underpant model.

Photo credit: www.aafp.org

Goodbye Mom Jeans. Helllloooo, Latex Leggings.

Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:02:00 GMT

We've covered the mom jean and the anti-mom jean at length here at Strollerderby. In fact, we've zipped that topic all the way up and over, if you know what I mean. But what we haven't covered quite as thoroughly is the attire that allows you to proudly show off your cellulite, stretch marks and any post-partum lumps and bumps and jelly jiggles you'd normally just tuck under a nice tunic or conservative high-waisted trouser. What we haven't given you, the people, enough of now comes in lovely latex and is available to roll up and squeeze into...just as soon as you've powdered your legs and Vaselined your hoo hoo.

Why would a mother wear latex leggings? Sure, it could be because she is "brave" or "fashion forward." It could also be because she idolizes the Olsen twins or hippie-chic stylings of Mischa Barton. It could be because she's trying to convince playgroup that her husband's way more Marilyn Manson than Paul Giamatti or that she's way closer on the schema to Victoria Beckham than Kirstie Alley, more Catwoman than Crocs wearer. Perhaps to convey that she herself has a slightly dangerous edge when not doling out hummus sandwiches, far more than those (gasp) Capri Sun artificial juice boxes could ever attest to. Maybe it's to allude to an envy-stirring rocker goth household rather than a Wiggles-fanatic family.

Or it could just be that she got a gift certificate to Shop Intuition that covered more than the leather fingertip gloves. Whatever the reason, I dare you, mamas. I dare you to shimmy into these babies and wear them out and about with your kids. I promise not to laugh, just give you a little Zen bow, and then pull my entranced kid away from your shiny, shiny thighs.

New! Trend! Fancy Shmancy PJs For Kids

Kelly Mills — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:29:00 GMT

You can almost feel your brain cells pop as you read this. By way of Jezebel, the latest must-have kid styley item is luxury pajamas. I guess more and more folks are forking over big bucks for designer sleepwear. I love this quote: "...parents looking for new ways to spend their money are no longer limiting that pursuit to the time when their children are awake." Now there's a problem I want. And if any parents out there are still looking for ways to spend their money, I have some suggestions, and they all involve a simple, tasteful check made out to "Kelly Mills, Blog Whore."

The quotes make this story. One pajama madame says, "...'the expectations appear to be higher than ever for your child to achieve academically, socially, athletically starting at a very young age. So we as parents want to give them all the tools necessary to do that, so that may include piano lessons at 2, dance lessons at 3, soccer at 4 and along the way the best of the best in everything from food to clothing.'" Fancy pajamas, it seems, are just one part of raising a child that will succeed in every area of life. Wow, we are slipping as parents! Also, another parent/pajama hocker says, "'When you are invited to spend the weekend at someone's house or they have a sleepover you want them to look good, you want to show them off.'" Whoa. When our kid has a sleepover we're more concerned that she doesn't freak out after getting a syrup high from too many waffles, and I think I sent her to the last slumberfest in (gasp) mismatched, hand-me-down Scooby Doo pjs. I get it now, my sleepwear laxness is ultimately dooming my child to failure. I may as well just hand her a fast food uniform to put on over her raggedy, formaldehyde-soaked sleeper.

Chic Mama: Style Blogs for Moms

Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:02:00 GMT

Just because you're pregnant or have kids doesn't mean you are destined to wearing pony tails and yoga pants until they are off to college. (Guilty!) Want to look as stylish and put-together and the moms you see at preschool drop-off or at the grocery store? Help is here. These blogs work hard to make looking good easier for you:

Boutique Mom—Fab finds for the style-savvy mom and child.
Swanky Moms—The blogs where hip moms hang out. They keep you up-to-date with what's hip. (Someone has to.)
Modish Mom—Adding a little style to motherhood. Great find for babies, too.
Cookie Magazine's "Mom Style" section—Hot beauty and style tips from one of my favorite magazines, parenting or otherwise.
The Bellydance Maternity blog—The maternity mavens have their finger on the pulse of pregnancy chic. Yes, you can use the words "maternity" and "style" in the same sentence.

Check 'em out and get inspired!