Just Linking: June 29, 2007

Have you heard about Paris Hilton’s jailhouse conversion? I hate to tell you this but … well, I was supposed to be reading The Other Jamestown Party, found via Life in a Shoe, but instead I got sucked into this : Paris Hilton Finds God. This quote was worth it:

How can we tell if Hilton’s conversion is real? With 30 years of working with prisoners, Mark Earley, president of Prison Fellowship, has identified three things that indicate a genuine change of heart: “humility, accountability and involvement in local faith communities over time.”

Humility, accountability, and involvement in local faith communities. We’ll see, won’t we? Over time.

Now in other news:

• My Fashion Life is obsessing over shirt dresses. I concur. If you find a shirt dress that suits your idiom, do not hesitate to snap it up.We, the ladies and I, have been scouting thrift stores for shirt dresses, mainly for them, for over a year. He hee. When my functionally elegant daughter wore one to church a few months back (it was a salmon pink that looked like it could have been current), her friends were all like, “WHAT are you wearing?” It’s awesome!

• And speaking of awesome, Karina also writes for another blog where she posted the most gorgeous trench coats ever. What kind of weather do you think trench coats are suitable for? When I lived in the Portland area, I had a trench with a zip-out lining for my regular coat; here I feel the need for a wool topper. I guess I’m thinking about people travelling to Europe this fall, would one of these be a practical coat to wander into the Chanel boutique in?

• On the topic of what to wear to Europe: here, via the Sartorialist, is a suit that works in my idiom.

Finally, the hilarious Daddy Likey dishes up great advice for short- and/or stocky- legged women in How to Not Look Like a Hobbit. But here’s my question:

Has anyone else noticed how many, shall we say, trendy ladies are wearing  a Frodo-like hairdo?