the (ef)Face: French Poodle--100th POST!

Happy 100th Post!
Here's a great big hug and thank-you to all my readers, old and new: thanks for caring about my little corner of the blog-iverse.

Heehee I wanted to get one of those very French, VERY-posed-but-supposed-to-be-nonchalant pictures. You know? Where the lady looks vain and proud but not haughty? And she's doing something ridiculous that actually isn't funny but somehow attractive? I hope you know what I mean.
And those pictures always seem to include a French Poodle (in a bedazzled collar)...probably because the feeling is one of those "remotely alluring" French-chic type things. Well, I didn't have a poodle at my disposal, but I nonetheless had a fantastic four-legged costar available to me: my golden retriever, Penny!
I wish her leash was a bit prettier, but you take what you can get.

Ain't she a cutie? I love her so.

Anyway, this outfit was inspired by my new shoes. I loooove T-straps, and I loooove pink, and I loooove saddle shoes. And, lo and behold: these are pink, T-strap, 3-inch-heeled saddle shoes!!!! I could hardly breathe when I discovered them; it's like they were made just for me! What a treasure.

The color of my footwear corresponded marvelously with this robin's egg shell in the grass.

my 50s glamour girl pose

So to go with my well-shoed feet, I had to wear other nice things on the rest of my body: my very favorite and most Audrey Hepburn-like LBD, my most vintage of handbags in its beautifully unsullied white, dainty lace gloves, pearls dripping from my neck and wrists, and sweet candy-pink lipstick.