RoseRed's World Fashion Tour (for fun and frivolity!)

Here in beautiful downtown Melbourne, Australia, it's Derby Day, traditionally the start of the Spring Racing Carnival Cup Week festivities. Lots of men and women are dressed to the nines in stylish hats, slinky outfits, suits and stilettos, ready to party at Flemington race course. So it seems timely to post a few images from our recent jaunt to Singapore, Paris, south of France, London, New York and Honolulu. What a fantastic holiday!

Please bear with me as I crawl on all fours into the digital imaging age. I only bought my first digital camera a few days before we left, don't yet have any proper image editing software, the dog ate my homework, and my suit's at the drycleaners .... To borrow a phrase from Jeremy Clarkson of TopGear, some of these pictures are rubbish. But what the heck!






A selection of shoes, Singapore style. Something for everyone here!







Some of the 6,500 hats from the Hat Industry Museum at Somail, near Narbonne in the south of France.







Some more French hats









French Provincial head gear








French Provincial underwear!







Australian Provincial underwear (not ours!) last seen floating down the Canal du Midi on a barge!







Parisian wedding frou-frou











Macy's windows say it all!
















Last but not least - here are my only two personal purchases for the entire trip (shopping is definitely not my forte). The T-shirt came from the Chateau de Ventenac on the Canal du Midi, where the grape harvest was in full swing, and we bought the swatch in - wait for it - Times Square, NY.