Funny, I was coining the phrase tent dress every time I ran across someone wearing a muumuu, not realizing that the tent dress is in a category all its own. These two styles, including the Kaftan, which is another free-flowing dress style are similar in a lot of ways but different in others.
I thought about Lucille Ball. I know her show was in the 50s and women were expected to be the homemakers. Just look at her costume: an age appropriate dress, always below the knees, an apron, sometimes culottes, and trousers. Ricky always came home to a clean house and a cooked meal, well most of the time when Lucy wasn’t making mischief or pulling off one of her many antics.
Now I don’t subscribe to the view of hiding in baggy clothes or gym clothes until I lose the desired weight. In fact, I think it is better if I feel good about myself while I’m in the process of getting fit. But the challenge has always been finding flattering clothing when I’m in-between sizes—and it’s slim pickings out there!
My last concert was a disaster . . . not musically but fashionably. I have only one go-to outfit that looks halfway decent on me and I am really getting tired of dressing for my weight and body instead of wearing the clothes I love. You see I used to […]
Larry Dunn’s Anthology of Earth, Wind & Fire will be performing at the Music Box in San Diego on Sunday, July 21, 2019. This concert celebrates Earth, Wind & Fire’s honor at the Kennedy Center (Kennedy Center Honors) in December 2019. Larry joined Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) in 1971 […]
Kiki Ebsen is a dynamic performer with an impressive musical range. Her exchange of jazz, pop, classical, and rock is entertaining and educational. She sings the standards from the Great American Songbook, is an engaging storyteller, not to mention she’s a comedienne and quite the convincing actor when performing her […]
Want to know the backstory of how Agenda went print? The magazine’s founder Kaylene Peoples has been asked that question repeatedly in interviews and amongst her colleagues. Not many people know that it took her six months and endless rejections before her magazine was finally allowed to be a part […]
Agenda has sponsored the Artemis Women In Action Film Festival (AWIAFF) for two years now. What’s special about our involvement is we get a glimpse of what goes into making of this incredible event successful, and discovered that it is a massive undertaking! Going into its sixth year, Artemis is […]
Attending an award ceremony with the distinction of honoring strong women was refreshing . . . and it was my second time. I was there last year in the thick of the excitement as honorees mingled in the atmosphere of what I call greatness. And this year was no different. […]
On Saturday, April 13, 2019, at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (F.I.D.M.) in Downtown Los Angeles, the Black Design Collective (BDC) honored Academy Award-winner costume designer Ruth E. Carter for their inaugural ceremony, in partnership with AT&T. Carter has been the wardrobe mastermind behind many iconic films to […]
