The meaning of sunglasses: and a guide to almost all things fashionable

Accessories: going to hell in a handbag

Advertising: how it spins the fashion axis

Animal print: when women roar

Ankle boots: so wrong and yet, and yet

Antiaging

Bags: a word or ten thereon

Ballet pumps: twee versus comfort

Bathing suits, and how so little can reveal so much

Beauty treatments, and the etiquette thereof

Best-dressed lists: the myths and the madness

Black: the new and the old

Blahnik, Manolo

Blouses: not so librarian now, are they?

Boots: the normal kind with a couple of variations

Cardigans: a trend in action

Celebrities, and when bad ones happen to good fashion

Classics with a twist

Cleavage, and the plumbing depths

Clutch "bag"

Coats stuck at the nexus between dull and stressful

Dates, and why they are the one event where you really don't need to worry about what you wear

Decade rehashing, and why designers live in the past

Dresses: God's gift to women

Drugs, the role thereof

Ethnic clothes

Exercise clothes: the new couture

Fashion shows: Darwin in motion

Fashionspeak

Festivals, and why they're a bit like being pregnant

Films about fashion, and why they are all (mainly) rubbish

Flat boots

Fur: bad

G-strings, and the female lie

Get: fashion that girls do and boys don't

Glasses, and why men will still make passes

Hair accessories: gimmicks for reluctant adults

Haircuts: the meaning beneath the layers

Hair extensions, and when you realize you no longer understand the young

Haute couture: taking self-indulgence to a whole new level

Heels: the highs, the lows, and when fat is better than thin

Hems: the highs and lows (part 2)

Jacobs, Marc: genius or what?

Jeans: not as bulletproof as they tell you

Jewelry, and when fashion just gets obnoxious

Lagerfeld, Karl, and why he's so brilliant

Late, fashionably, and just rude

Layering, the whats and hows of

Leather jackets, and the delusion of the middle-aged man

Limits, age, and what's (allegedly) acceptable when

Lingerie, and the importance or otherwise of an audience

Logos: the bleating of the insecure

Low-slung belts, and the point thereof

Magazines, fashion, and women's masochistic love thereof

Make-up: the tears of a clown

Manicures, pedicures, and the ever-rising bar of personal upkeep

Masculinity, and the clothes that challenge it

Mass market fashion, and the changing face thereof

Mittens, and the enduring appeal of pedophile-friendly chic

Models

Money, and when to spend it

Moss, Kate, and how she ruined your wardrobe

Pantyhose, stockings, and the pleasures of a chastity belt

Party dresses, and what yours say about you

Party shirts: the fun-lovin' guy's staple

Patterns - or test patterns?

Pink

Plastic surgery, and how all those 1950s B movies weren't so far off the mark

Prada: the frumpy but fashionable

Red carpet, and what we can learn from it

Ruffles: from French ingénue to Bozo the Clown

Sex and the city: what it gave us and what it didn't

Shorts, and why they're so great

Signature style

Sizing: the nonexistent myth

Sunglasses, the meaning of

Thin knits

Toes, and what the shape says about you

Trench coats

Vanity, and the joys thereof

Velvet, and why it should be banned

Vintage

Volume, and the ironic cruelty of the oversized cut

Yoga, detoxes, and other euphemisms for exercise and diets.