Tammy Faye Fans Get a Movie--and Maybe Free Makeup
Indie film “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” immediately conjures up images of Miss Tammy Faye Bakker on TV bawling her eyes out, but not her fake eyelashes off, while mascara streamed down her cheeks.
In honor of the movie’s general release today, dotcom’er Makeupmania plans to give away a $1,000 gift certificate. Registration at the Web site, https://www.makeupmania.com, will be open until Aug. 31. The lucky shopper’s name will be announced on the Web site Sept. 5.
All that public boohooing on the part of Miss Faye stemmed from the 1988 scandal involving her then-husband televangelist Jim Bakker fleecing the flock, who truly had something to cry over. In 1989, Bakker was convicted of defrauding 116,000 followers out of $158 million.
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Bold tights, patent leather shoes and leg warmers are among the “must have” items for teenage girls this fall, according to Seventeen magazine.
The magazine’s fall-winter trend forecast for 2000-2001 also lists: bowling bags, mini-dresses, shoulder-duster earrings, printed shoulder bags, textured knit sweaters, tie-neck tops, vibrant wool coats, pleated skirts, gold-plated jewelry, faux fur vests, cuff watches, “funky” sneakers, double-strand belts and colored corduroy.
Seventeen, the largest monthly beauty and fashion magazine in the United States written for girls and young women 12 to 24, released the report earlier this year to 300 fashion-industry retailers during the back-to-school buying season.
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A young Scottish designer is dragging his tartan national dress into the 21st century by producing kilts in PVC, fake leather and leopard-print--complete with a pocket for mobile phones.
“The response has been really good,” a kilted Howie Nicholsby at Edinburgh-based Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts told Reuters.
In keeping with his drive to bring the kilt into the modern era, all garments also have an inside pocket for credit cards, while the racier models aimed at clan clubbers have zip-on pockets for water bottles.
The traditional leather sporran has also had a make-over.
“I normally recommend people use a ‘bum bag,’ but I’ve got a bright red sporran I often wear for everyday,” Nicholsby said.
Scotland’s traditional tartan kilt makers have voiced reservations, but Nicholsby says the garment is merely going back to its roots.
“The kilt is only around 200 years old and was originally designed for daywear, so I’m just making it what it was always meant to be. Scotland can’t keep living under the shortbread tin tartan image,” he said.
