Although this show is about fashion ….Maybe he can talk about his family history and Syrian Jews …and Jews kicked out of Arab countries …..

I hope Mr. Mizrahi will discuss maternity wear- most of it makes one look like a poorly stuffed sausage or utterly childish.

We early-30-somethings salute you, Isaac, for working with Target! This age is a hard age to dress–we can’t be teens anymore, but we don’t want to look like middle-age business women in suits! I can’t tell you how many times my friends and I have been complimented on our funky work attire.

I’m a big Target fan. Love that you have a line of clothing there. Can you comment how you approach your designs for TARGET.

thank you

Iam surprised how often fashion experts fail to notice how Michelle Obama’s dress on election night was part of a red and black family ensemble. The dressed should not be judged as an individual item. I thought it was amazingly successful and unique.

Iam surprised how often fashion experts fail to notice how Michelle Obama’s dress on election night was part of a red and black family ensemble. The dress should not be judged as an individual item. I thought it was amazingly successful and unique.

Every time I go into a store and spot something I like, it’s by Liz Claiborne. I can always count on her clothes fitting me (pear shaped!) perfectly. And they’re sized a little bigger so I always fit into a smaller size – tho I don’t care so much about the number as the final look. I really hope Isaac doesn’t feel he has to completely revamp the line – it’s been so good to me.

I wept with joy when Obama won, but my mouth fell open when Michelle walked out in that bizarre dress. I’ve always loved her understated dress – always classy, but not screaming anything. But that dress – and I thought the choice of black & red as a color theme was incomprehensible – seemed to convey a negative drama. It looked like a walking mistake or accident. Bloody really. Sorry, I was disappointed, but totally unconcerned, with the dress choice. Much bigger & better things were happening that night!

Great Show! Finally someone who really gets women. I am so fashion challenged; emotionally and literally. Either everything is too expensive, doesn’t fit well or is so trendy its out of fashion before I’ve had time to dry clean or wash it.

Thank you!

In an age of rampant obesity is it the worst thing to have men and women strive to not be overweight within reason

Tom, love your show. Both you and Issac have a great voices. Love the enthusiasm and laughter. And for everyone out there, our best and first statment of beauty is our smile! It radiates our personality and happiness. No matter what we put on, if we start with that smile and openness, our appearance really attracts people. Radiate beauty from the inside out. Celebrate life.

I love your perspective that women should love their bodies and looks before worrying about whether they fit the popular image of how a woman should look. However, I am an older woman who is single, and looking to meet a guy. On any computer dating sites, it is pretty discouraging to see how many men list being thin as their first priority in finding a mate. I know this is a superficial attitude, nonetheless, it makes looking to meet someone new very challenging. What do you think?

Isaac didn’t do a great job answering the maternity wear question!

I was a 41 year old professional woman when I became pregnant for the first time.
I kept my hair cut neat and sleekly styled, used my nice jewelry and scarves as elegant accessories, and wore absolutely no baby-colors, baby-bows, ruffles, etc.

First of all, for casual and around home, get a couple of inexpensive, colorful swing or trapeze tops and then add the maternity panels to your oldest basic color pants. These could be sports pants which are stretchy and comfortable but in a neutral color can go with anything.

I started with a couple of non-maternity empire waist dresses in rich dark colored velveteen, bought a black and white vest and pants maternity set with a tailored look, bought a navy sweater swing top and a pair of black maternity slacks, made a couple of lovely ponte knit dresses from maternity patterns in flattering colors that I could accessorize. Over and over during my pregnancy I was told how wonderful I looked and I was asked to make a video to go with a textbook on child development at 8 1/2 months.

I reused these 4 or 5 outfits, laundering or dry-cleaning every week, and spent precious little.

Also in a fairly affluent area you can find great maternity wear in consignment shops.

I continued my trend for what turned out to be an unexpectedly long period of nursing – found great patterns for nursing tops and made a few outfits that were flattering, comfortable, and my usual style of clothing. Believe me it is great to feel like you look good in your clothes!

Good luck! and enjoy your baby!

Wish I’d tuned in earlier. I just turned 60 and would like some advice on fun, appropriate but not dowdy style for my age. I’m fit and trim, so fashions fit me, but I’m not quite comfortable wearing a lot of it. Any books, websites or magazines to recommend?

Where’s the audio of this show?

I’m very disappointed in the re-design of the On Point website. It’s looking very advertise-y. The previous design was superior for cleanness of layout, clarity of items for users, and identity. This doesn’t say NPR to me, more like CNN, leaning towards Huffington Post, a real SHOUTER of a design.

The new On Point “logo” is particularly poor, it looks like someone applied the Photoshop filter, “pillow emboss,” which is one of Photoshop’s terrible, gimmicky, filter offerings. In addition, the arrow has been converted into the hackneyed, overused, and obviously still popular web & Nike “swish.”

Surely, given the quality and quantity of good designers in the Boston area, something better could have been done, since On Point felt it needed “freshening up.”

Very unfortunate, because the design at places like WBUR, NPR and WGBH has always been of award-winning, high quality.

If nothing else, I hope it doesn’t spread across the entire WBUR website.

Sincerely,
j merryman

Great show. I’ve always found pleasure in looking at well-dressed people but never dressed particularly well, myself, until very recently. I’m a thirty-nine-year-old man.

My conclusion is that there is nothing shallow about trying to look good in one’s own way; it is a piece of what inside of you rising to the surface.

I’m always behind these comments because I only listen to the podcast edition. That being said, I have to say that this interview with Isaac Misrahi was vapid and dull. I have to hope that Mr. Misrahi is less vacuous than he appeared due to his great success, but I learned almost nothing from this show! All I learned is he’s blindly pro-Obama, he’s Jewish-Syrian from Brooklyn, and that’s pretty much it.

I grew frustrated with him not being able to answer even basic questions, not even about the fashion industry or history.

Finally, as a man, I’m always bummed as to the sorry state of men’s fashion. It always frustrates me that every mall has a hugely lopsided mix of women’s to men’s stores and that men’s fashion is an afterthought (just think of that ONE alyays-dreaded men’s challenge on Project Runway). Or What Not To Wear, or Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style, etc. The only show ever to address men was Queer Eye, and that’s now gone…

Misrahi broke the record for “you know”. Please no more guests with “you know,like I mean”every fifteen seconds. I lasted ten minutes.
I listen every day. He was your worst guest this year.
You do a great job Tom.
Jordan Gallagher,Dorchester

Thanks for a great show! I was inclined to be sniffy about a fashion designer commanding this attention, but Mr. Mizrahi won me over with his sense of humor and positive attitude.

I wish the whole fashion world could absorb his humanism and absence of misogyny.

Thank you,
Elizabeth Brown