Les Bijoux de Paris

One for each day of the week!

Gimme My Gaymode

Delicious, delightful deadstock from JC Penney's Gaymode lingerie line! Mine, all mine! I was lucky enough to find this tempting trio of one-piece rompers in ice-creamy pastels, still with their original hang-tags...ready-to-romp!



Each one boasts a Nylotrique De Luxe tag, assuring the buyer of modern, carefree design and lovely, luxurious fabric!



Well, that's all fine and dandy, but I was sold on psychedelic cotton candy pink and totally trendy turquoise! Oh...and their modest $2.99 pricetags, of course.

It's good to be in a Gaymode.

It's Sundae Nite!

Kids...please don't try this at home!

Shanghai Lil & The Shanghai Pearl

Yay! It's Tuesday again and, as usual, your pal Gams has a ve-e-e-ery special video to share!

I'm sure I've mentioned The Shanghai Pearl before...that Tantalizing Temptress from Taipei and Princess of Pulchritude? Well, she was the inspiration for my rewrite of "Shanghai Lil" from "Footlight Parade". I've watched this fine film several times and have always loved the Shanghai Lil song-and-dance scene with Jimmy Cagney and Ruby Keeler. Sadly, I couldn't find the original on youtube but I think I've found something even better...this beautifully parodied version, performed by an array of stars from British telly. I swear, they haven't missed a trick..stay until l'danse Apache at the end ~ it's worth it! Bloody hilarious!



Anyway, my darlings, now I wish you'd take another minute to watch Gams TV and enjoy my tribute to the fabulous Shanghai Pearl! xo

Knocking 'Em Cold...

Ahhh...vintage bling! This glimmering gold necklace and bracelet, courtesy of my mom (rest her soul) are marked 'bergere'...and aren't they fabulous?? I wore this set with my outfit on Halloween and found it quite weighty...the necklace being reassuringly heavy somehow...in fact, I liked it so much, I can't wait to wear it out with my black faux fur! To quote Soft Cell's song 'Sex Dwarf' : "We'll look so good, we'll knock 'em cold...knocking em' cold in black and gold."



And here's a special surprise, darlings! If you happen to like this set, check out this link! I was doing some checking around and found its clone for sale...only 40 bucks! How 'bout that? Your pal Gams is looking out for you all the time! xoxo

Ladies of Questionable Repute

One for each day of the week!

Halloween Hijinks!

How the hell was your Halloween, hon? Frighteningly fun? Full of goodies galore? Gosh, I hope so!

Your pal Gams went to what's become her favorite Halloween gathering at the home of Jack and Deirdre Timmons of Golden Echo Films... Deirdre is the cute chick in the chick suit pictured here. That old broad with the ciggy holder is me...and if that pic's not unflattering enough, let me share these two photos of me and my old pal Lucy Ricardo (who hasn't aged a bit!) enjoying a smoked sausage together...now there's some good old fashioned fun!




I couldn't decide if I wanted to be glamorous or scary...so I chose both. Picture, if you will, a fading Mae West combined with a pissed-off Bette Davis as Margo Channing, with possibly a touch of kooky, Sunset Blvd-ish Gloria Swanson...that's what I decided to costume myself as...after much emoting and overly-dramatic wringing of hands, that is. I guess I didn't think it much of a costume, since I wear a lot of those second-hand-Rose-gladrags anyway...but there ya have it. At least I got to wear it all at once!

I am proud, however, of the costume I created for Johnny, my personal escort-slash-constant companion-slash-fluffer. Johnny dreamed of being the dreaded and feared Spanish Inquisitor, Torquemada, so I set about making him a scarlet red robe, cape, alb, hat and fancy-shmancy cross.

I knew it would take miles of fabric for this project and end up being wa-a-a-y too expensive in the longrun...so I searched other sources. Lo and Behold! Fred Meyer had an inexpensive set of red satin sheets on sale, so I snapped up a set and used the top sheet (conveniently hemmed!) for the robe. A matching round red tablecloth became the capelet...a small cut of stretchy holiday fabric, trimmed with some gold lace and braid, made a flashy alb. I covered a hat form with red silk and glued on a cross applique, then found a plastic cross Xmas ornament and jazzed it up with some glitter and rhinestone trim. Here's the finished product...we ended up dying his goatee and moustache for extra realism...whaddaya think? I must confess (cuz he's the Inquisitor)...I think he's pretty darn intimidating! Look! Even the pumpkin's scared!