Karen Polanski’s Fashion Detective Blog

I am a middle-aged New York-based career woman who has a few choice words for the fashion industry. I invite you to vent!

My pseudonym, Karen Polanski, comes from the wonderful intrepid character in Jim Feast’s techno-noir thriller NeoPhobe, available through Autonomedia books. The following passage describes Karen’s fashion sense:

“Polanski hated this pant suit revolution in which women dressed like first lady wannabes, in bright blue, matching suits with gold, military-looking buttons. It made Karen think of the ’70s when she was growing up–the molded hair and sterile, ultra functional clothes in lockstep pop colors. She revolted against this in what she took to be a daring (though to others it might have seemed indiscernible) departure from monopoly traditional. She would not wear a “habit,” she told her pals in the NeoPhobes. What she wore to their soirees, and to the office as well, was frighteningly out-of-date, subdued, but melodiously put-together thrift-shop clothes, circa 1940.”
–NeoPhobe, page 25