A familiar tale: Bride says, “I’d love you to be my bridesmaid. It will be loads of fun and you’ll totally be able to wear the dress again!” Bridesmaid-to-be gushes: “Why I can’t think of anything I’d rather do more in the whole wide world than spend a lot of money to look just as you want [...]

Yesterday while alighting from a car, an uncouth youth randomly told me I was sexy. While it’s true that I was wearing a particularly fierce lipstick, is this sort of street chatter really desirable? For some people, such behaviour can be an amusing flip to buoy one’s spirits, but for some, such conduct is intolerable. [...]

Newswordy is a new site that celebrates buzzwords used in the media. Its focus is on words that don’t typically occur in normal speech but are common with the information elite like newsreaders and pundits on cable news. Updated each weekday, the site showcases one of these buzzwords with a definition as well as examples of [...]

If you didn’t know already, we’re a little bit fanatical about Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit here at I Do Believe I Came with a Hat. We’d even go as far as saying that it is arguably the best film ever made. With winning components such as a shirty Lauryn Hill,  Sheryl-Lee Ralph [...]

In an ever-evolving technological space and as our adoption and proliferation of new social networking media increases, so does confusion over what the correct terms of practice and engagement should be. Decades ago, the Emily Posts and Amy Vanderbilts of this world would have never suspected that correspondence would move into the digital realm the [...]

The AMC series Mad Men has launched a cute little site where you can ‘Mad Men’ yourself to promote the premiere of their third season in mid-August. Specify whether you are a ‘skirt’ or a ‘suit’ and then make a composite of your best 1960s personification, all to a soothing bossanova soundtrack that will make you crave martinis [...]