WEAR: Quilted vest

Whether you're truffle hunting in Tuscany, 

traipsing around the Scottish highlands, 

fly fishing the Montana creeks

or shootin skeet and dove on the Missouri farm, 

never leave home without it.

STYLE: Zebrawood

From guitars to flooring, bike, glasses, or even handguns.  Everything looks richer when made of zebrawood.

POEM: Late August

Margaret Atwood

VOCAB: Fiasco

 Italian for a basket flask for your chianti bottle ...

 ... or a rapper named Lupe ...

... or this.

GENRE: Television Western

Masked men, cowboys vs. Indians, farmers & cowmen, 

prairies, medicine women, sci-fi western, Chuck Norris

No matter which way you slice it, American media have been western-obsessed since ... 

well, the days of the wild west.

CRUSH: James Spader

Fell in love with him as the brilliant scientist in Stargate.

Glint of glasses, anyone.

Fell deeper as bad boy, Steff, in Pretty in Pink.
Check out his filmography here.  He's good, real good.

CHANNELING: Housesitter

Leopard jacket.  Red tank.  High-waisted straight legs.  

Tassel necklace.  Sunglasses.  Duffle.  Belt.  Boots.  

Goldie Hawn nails it.

WEAR: Waffle Crew Neck

Perfect for your transition from Late Summer to Early Fall.

STYLE: Kilim

Persian tapestry-woven carpets keep your feet warm and your apartment stylish.

BIRTHDAY: Julia Child

Happy birthday, Jukies.

Bon appetit!

PIONEER: Helen Gurley Brown

On August 13, Helen Gurley Brown passed away at age 90.

Author, publisher, editor.

A role model for decades of free-thinking women.

Girl power!

BAG: Back to School

Bag from The Leather Satchel Company.

Bright yellow to match your No. 2s.

MAN: Ennio Morricone

Took up the trumpet as a kiddo. Wrote his first composition at 6.  

Started his career writing background music for radio dramas.  

Then, a buddy from school named Sergio Leone asked Ennio

to compose a few scores for his new "spaghetti western" films.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

GAL: Betty Boop

Making her first appearance on August 9, 1930, Betty was a Depression-era reminder of the carefree days of the Jazz Age.

Eat you heart out, Jessica Rabbit.

ART: Vodou Flag

Hand sewn silk and sequined banners

symbolize the worshiped voodou spirits.

They look grand on a wall at home.

BIRTHDAY: Lucille Ball

There is nothing like a dame.  We can all learn a lot from this pioneering comedian .

Happy birthday, Ball

STYLE: Bronze, Silver, and Gold

Find your faves from curated collections here

PIRATE: Anne Bonny

Captain Ron was right! There were Pirates of the Caribbean, 

including this dame. She could fight like the devil and love like an angel,

the dread Pirate Bonny.

Wanna channel your inner Anne Bonny?  

Try these namesake boots.