Old Signage | MM and Robert Bestien Handbags – East 33rd Street.

December 12, 2014 § Leave a comment

I love the old signage that is becoming rarer and rarer to see in the city. Usually it’s only when a building is torn down that you have a brief window to take a pictutre before another building goes up.

Robert Bestien Handbags was a division of the Bestcraft Handbag Corp., MM stands for The Morris Moskowitz Corp. who was the president of the company.

Who Knew Dick Clark Sold Women’s Shoes? | Boot And Shoe Recorder, 1960

December 5, 2014 § 4 Comments

Found on prince.org

In Honor Of The Orion Spacecraft…Some Fashion For Mars.

December 4, 2014 § 2 Comments

If all goes well tomorrow morning NASA’s Orion spacecraft will launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Watch: First Test Flight for NASA Spacecraft That May Take Us to Mars – Wired

One Step for Space Fashion, One Giant Leap for Astronaut Safety

Source: http://urbantaster.com

Note: Jerry Pankin was a shoe designer in Manhattan. I remember hearing his name growing up and found the above copy while doing research on my grandfather, Ben Benjamin. I asked my mother about Jerry and she remembered he was a lot of fun. She recalled him telling her once in jest he was going to design a refrigerator a foot deep that covered the length of a room, that way you could always find what you were looking for. Genius!

Source: spacecollective.org

A Few Photos…Of Me.

December 2, 2014 § 12 Comments

So many fashion bloggers put themselves in their blogs – literally. For someone like myself who devoted a large part of their youth to a career in the performing arts I’m surprised by my own reticence to doing this and can’t see myself modeling my favorite shoes or clothes. Maybe it’s where I’m at in my life — raising my son and trying to find that all too illusory balance between family and work or perhaps it’s my innate fear of the power and danger of the Internet and the loss of freedom that goes with that. Who knows? Maybe it’s also because I’m not sure where I fit in? Is this really a fashion blog? Whenever I write a post there’s a place to click category. For almost a year now every post has been checked uncategorized. It’s only recently that I’ve started to try and figure that one out. Maybe it’s also because I am a mom and my focus has now shifted off of myself to taking pictures of my son or that really I’m the one that likes to take the pictures rather than pose for them! In addition there’s nothing like motherhood to make one lose their sense of vanity. I’m sure most mothers out there know exactly what I mean. I’ve gone whole days without looking in the mirror. Something that would seem so shocking to my 20 something self…so, I decided I would try and find a few different photos through the years to post and found I actually had much more than I thought. Here’s a sampling — so what category would you choose for my blog?

Photo by Carol Benjamin

St. Petersburg Times.

The Atlanta Constitution

Photo by Norine Perreault

Family | Photo by Carol Benjamin

Selfie

CONVERSE

May 29, 2014 § 8 Comments

The Converse Rubber Shoe Company was founded in 1908. In 1917 they created a shoe called the All Star and in 1921, basketball player Charles “Chuck” Taylor joined a basketball team sponsored by Converse — The Converse All Stars. Taylor became a salesman for the company and made improvements to the shoe.