I am delighted to introduce you to Culture Stories, an online magazine and concept shop for women of style and substance. A website bent on putting the Cult back into Culture.
Each week they publish The Culture Edit, curating stories around a theme and editing the best books to read, art to see, styles to wear, places to go and thoughts to thinks. With each Edit they invite a curator – real or imaginary – to give them their perspective on what’s cool in the world of culture. Like that time Miss Piggy curated the colour Pink!
Well, guess what? They asked me to contribute a piece from my upcoming book about the 10 years my quirky mother and I survived thrived working together in her Asian antiques store. It’s a tell-all along the lines of Antiques Roadshow meets Auntie Mame meets James Herriot.
Women’s Bathing Suit Alternatives
So what’s my Culture Stories ditty? I’m writing about that time my mother forgot to pack her bathing suit on our buying trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand. It was desperately hot and Frankie simply had to go for a dip in the hotel pool, so she assembled the most horrific extraordinary bathing costume imaginable. A true Frankie original.
Only my mother would dare to appear in this …
Simply click on the link below to learn why I thought I’d absolutely die of embarrassment …
https://culturestories.co/open-book-travel-diaries/
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Bwa ha ha! Poor Ole. Although he must not have been quite the fun chap he thought he was if he couldn’t hang out with Frankie in all her magnificence.
Now that’s a good point, Katy. Btw – Mom’s short term memory is getting a bit of a hit these days, much to her intense frustration, but she ALWAYS is able to come up with his name!
Too funny Kel. Good for Frankie for figuring out how to get cool
Thanks for popping in with a comment, Rainbow! Yes, cool as in temperature … not perhaps as in fashion … Love to have understood the comments of the onlookers. Most of them were Spanish and speaking much too fast.
Mom probably ruined Ole for all other women. Who could possibly top that? He’s probably still in his room, watching Price is Right.
Now this had me laughing out loud. Brilliant comment, Eli. And yes, either that or Let’s Make a Deal. Perhaps both?
Your mother’s positive outlook makes me smile every time. Wish you had a photo :)!
So do I! I have a photo of me with Ole on that morning’s orchid tour but not one of Mom in her getup. Man alive, I wish I did. She was a true wonder. The shower cap and the bathing trunks were HUGE.
Oh my, I have such a vivid picture in my mind of your Mum in the underwire bra and men’s trunks ! I can only imagine the look on Ole’s face !
He was frozen in shock, Jane. Absolute shock.
This was the first blog post I read this morning. What a GREAT way to start the day!
I’m delighted, Kathy. Thank you for reading. I can’t help but wonder if Ole is still in shock …
Too funny and reminds me of a time with my Grandmother. We were at a backyard party and many of the women were waring “halter tops”. There were very fashionable at that time. My Grandmother took a long look at everyone and apparently decided she was a bit ‘overdressed’. She simply removed her top, sporting a lovely white underwire number of her own….LOL! As a teenager….I simply thought I would die of embarrassment! Somehow I survived and today I would like to think that I inherited a bit of that free and wild spirit my Grandmother showed me that day!!
Halter Tops! Yes! I well remember them and actually have the odd photo lying around of me in one. Oh my. And your grandmother? She sounds like an absolute gem. If you are 1/10th a bit of her (and I suspect you might be) I can’t wait to meet you, Debbie. Love the sound of her.