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Off to the Beach

(Hmmm, need to repaint that capital….)

Mrs. E., my mother, the children and I are off to the Outer Banks of North Carolina (the “OBX”) this week. I’m not sure of the connectivity there. If I can post, I will. I hope to catch up on my blog reading and will try and finish a copy [...]

Good Taste is Forever: Van Day Truex, Arbiter Elegantium

(Van Day Truex from the book by Lewis. I believe he is wearing the same suit in which he is pictured on the cover. An elegant suit and an easy pose will always look chic.)

“Good taste is forever.” It may be the Brunschwig & Fils motto, but it was Truex who came up with it [...]

Square With Flair™ On the Blues. Tiffany Blue, Of Course.

A timely post as Mrs.E. and I just enjoyed a Sunday Mimosas and a Movie at our local theatre. “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” on the big screen, complete with some Audrey styled audience members. Mrs. E. has had many a little blue box during our relationship. They never fail to delight. My youngest has already received [...]

Luxe, calme et volupté.* That sounds wonderful. In today’s world, I find that there is a disturbing lack of all of the above. Maybe it’s the speed at which we live our daily lives, multitasking during each measured moment of the day and well into our nights. Whatever the reason, I think that we’ve lost something that our parents and grandparents took for granted. Not just an ease in society or how to throw an intimate dinner for six or write a thank you note, but an everyday elegance. Easy and Elegant Life is my attempt to define what makes up an elegant existence and to pass along a few easy (and inexpensive) ideas for bringing back a little elegance to our everyday lives. Here you will find ideas for living, decorating, entertaining and dressing with an easy elegance. Not just my ideas. To help point the way, I intend to seek out all sorts of people -- professional lifestyle experts and those who seem to have been born elegant -- asking them what they believe constitutes elegance and how we can best achieve it. So to those whom Honore de Balzac called “elegantologists” I dedicate this site and the good fight. * From “L’Invitation au voyage” by Charles Baudelaire. The whole line reads: “Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté/ Luxe, calme et volupté.”

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Off to the Beach

Good Taste is Forever: Van Day Truex, Arbiter Elegantium

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