Socks and Sandals and other Scandals

Happy Spring to all our beautiful and loyal, Denim Star®, Sock Stars out there!  As you may or may not know, this will be our last episode of Season 4, of “Socks and Sandals and Other Scandals Morning Cuppa Podcast” as Denim Star® gets set to temporarily go “Under Construction” for the next 6 months or so, as we do a digital detox and undertake our Denim Star® Socks re-branding. But before we do,...

Happy March to all our beautiful Denim Star, Sock Stars! Although we have all the usual players on our March dance card for events and celebrations this year.  This month we are going to hone in on one calendar event you might not know about, “As Young As You Feel Day” as well as one that you do know, “International Women’s Day” in a collaboration that will help celebrate the life, of one of the m...

Hello to all our beautiful Denim Star, Sock Stars out there! Here’s wishing everybody an amazing 2024! And speaking of 2024, this year marks a special occasion in that, it only happens once, every 4 years.  Yes you got it. We’re talking about leap year.  It’s a Leap Year this year!!  Remember that old Mother Goose Leap Year rhyme: “Thirty days hath September, April, June and November.  All the res...

This new year we’ll take a deep dive and have a giggle looking back on 2023 with some of the positive news items that stood out, as well as fashion news that was trending as well as, you guessed it, we have a scandal, and it was, believe it or not, a “socks and sandals scandal” like no other.  We haven’t discussed a fashion scandal for quite some time have we? Was it “ mankles ”?  So without furth...

Happy Winter and Merry Christmas to all our beautiful Denim Star, Sock Stars! We know you’ve had an awesome Summer and hope you are having fun at the tail-end of Autumn here. Where has the time gone? Another year just flew by as we now head into Season 4 next year.  I just can’t believe it.  And as we wrap up, and take stock of everything we have gratitude for in our daily lives. We also take this...

So what exactly is adaptive fashion you might ask? Adaptive clothing is apparel that has been designed for people who have difficulties dressing themselves due to age, disability or general lack of mobility. And how technology is being used for fabrics to help us adapt to our new broiling environment. Listen in with Billie & I, Emma Lucy Brown Founder of Denim Star® on this hot topic. Enjoy!

Happy Summer to our beautiful Denim Star, Sock Stars! We hope y’all are enjoying your summer vacays this year. Even more so after we all took that crash “summer school” course at Denim Star U, learning about getting a handle on living more sustainably and what we can all do to help save the planet together. Now that we all passed our Back to School crash course with flying colours, we can say for...

Happy Summer folks! We hope all our beautiful Denim Star, Sock Stars are diving right in this summer as for many of us now, it really does feel like things are back to normal (whatever that is for the time being anyway) now that WHO officially declared Covid a non-emergency and are seeing concerts, festivals, and travellers make a full comeback for the most part. Whatever theme or plans your Summe...

Let’s Shine On! Even more so, after I was shocked to learn after following, Holly Tucker, of, Holly’s Desk Notes. Where, after having a dream, she noted that we experience emotions all the time, and that feelings are raw creativity, but that, isn’t it funny, how we don’t recognize that we live in art constantly? Holly went on to say that one of the most crucial things we can do for humankind is to...

Happy Spring to all our beautiful Denim Star®, Sock Stars out there! Morning once again from Socks and Sandals and Other Scandals Morning Cuppa with Emma & Billy. Hope everyone had a lovely Easter and a fab Earth Day this year and received our Happy Earth Day email announcement. And with May upon us, don’t forget that there’s Cinco De Mayo on the 5th, for all our beautiful Mexican fans. And for al...

Happy Spring to all our beautiful Denim Star, Sock Stars out there! Hope everyone had a great Valentines and St. Patrick’s Day! Let us know on Instagram, how you celebrated this year wearing your favourite Denim Star, Sock Star looks. For February and Valentine’s you’ll find out from yours truly, Ms. Emma Lucy Brown, how everything went at the Pure London fashion show and all the exciting news wit...

Happy 2023 to all our beautiful Denim Star®, Sock Stars out there! Hope everyone had a great Christmas holiday. Let us know on Instagram, how the “F-word” (fine) Walkers’ experiment went, over the holiday season, when folks asked how you were doing, leading into the celebrations. Fab, if it was really relaxing & recharging, and also fab, if you authentically, called it for whatever it was at that...

Morning all you lovely lot out there! Happy December, Happy Christmas! Which is literally sneaking up on us as we speak, isn’t it folks? As this year just seemed to flash by didn’t it? Billie and I, try hard as we might, to wrap up our deep dive discussion on sustainability and thrifting, have, yet, again, discovered that it just seems to take on a life of its own and morph into yet another episod...

Morning all you lovely lot out there! Welcome one and all, to our beautiful Denim Star, Sock Stars, to Season 2, Episode 6: Thrift Store Shopping and taking a deep dive, further, into, what is really going on in the Thrift Store world at the moment. Where we have come from, and where we might be going on our thrift store journey ahead! Especially so, as, after having the amazing, Australian TV Pre...

Morning all you lovely lot out there! Welcome one and all, to our beautiful Denim Star, Sock Stars, to Thrift Store Shopping and Saving the Planet with our special guest, Faye DeLanty! What an amazing Episode this will be with our special guest who has so graciously agreed to be on the show as well as help us all, sift through the choppy waters these days, as we learn how to navigate thrift store...

Morning all you lovely lot out there! Welcome all, our beautiful Denim Star, Sock Stars, to Fashion Revolution Week and Earth Day! April proved to be an amazing month, with not only Earth Day on April 22, but also the entire week, from the 18th to the 24th with none other than, Fashion Revolution Week! As you may or may not know, Fashion Revolution Week happens every year, and marks the date of, A...

It’s Emma Lucy Brown, your Hosiery High Priestess here at Denim Star’s Podcast, “Socks and Sandals and Other Scandals: Morning Cuppa with Emma + Billie”. We want to celebrate International Women’s Day some more! We’ve come a long way baby since the feminist movement was gaining ground in strength and popularity back in the 1960s when the Phillip Morris Company capitalized on shifting attitudes. Th...

So come on people. Share the love it’s not too late! We want to be inspired by all our most Va Va Va Voooomish moments that happened this February and onward, all in the name of love and for the cause of celebrating our love for denim and our romance with it throughout the world! Come and listen in with Emma & Billie!

As a side note, I had mentioned to Billie that one of the themes I noticed over the holidays in London, was that we are seeing a little more “inclusivity”, if that’s the right word for it, in our fashion models, as they appear a whole lot more, like what is mirroring back to the fashion world, as far as seeing all shapes and sizes, heights and colours, in both fashion campaigns and ads. Rather tha...

We stand together, for causes, or no causes! And we literally have the heart and “soles” to take on this mission to rock out our socks and be the stars we know we are. Especially now as we head into the Christmas season this year, where we will venture together, while it’s trending, into DIY fashion. DIY as it has popped and dropped, big time during our Covid journeys and beyond. And for all those...

"Socks and Sandals And Other Scandals", is the official podcast for the hosiery brand Denim Star®. Please join us in this 2 part podcast to celebrate "The Joy of Socks". This is part 2 interviewing our very special guest Flora Stavri the Founder of "The Joy of Socks" community Facebook Group, find out what makes the group tick and, listen in to join in with some blooming good fun in bringing joy t...

"Socks and Sandals And Other Scandals", is the official podcast for the hosiery brand Denim Star®. Please join us in this 2 part podcast to celebrate "The Joy of Socks" through sock ode's, to a European sock survey and what an eye opener that is trust me folks the findings are fascinating. This first part is a lead up to interviewing our very special guest Flora Stavri the Founder of "The Joy of S...

Listen in to Billie & Emma discus the phenomenon of FOMO, FOGO and FONO. How we relate this to fashion and what our ‘Back to Old School’ twist is?

“Hot Vax Summer” is on for some after Summer 2020, mixed Summer for most of us throughout the world, and has now, ramped-up in some parts of the world, what is to be, perhaps, one of the friskiest summers on record due to our 18 months, of on again, off again, Covid lock downs. Hard to find the pulse at the moment amongst all the Hot Vax Summer hype and the Reopening jitters.  But it seems to just...

After we had our three part podcast series on Sustainability and Fashion, Billie & I felt it was important to dedicate this podcast to a reading list to those of you out there who would like to learn more about Fashion & Sustainability! Enjoy! And we ask the question ‘Can Fashion Heal the Planet’!