Cupcake Mania: Part III - "Let Them Wear Cupcake!"

Pink Cupcake Crystal Novelty Minaudière
$4,295 at at Judith Leiber online site

Or a light pink version (limited edition)
at the Bergdorf Goodman online store, also for $4,295

Wikipedia describes a minaudière thus:

"A minaudière is a women's fashion accessory
generally considered a jewelry piece,
intended to substitute for an evening bag"

Details from the Judith Leiber site:

Our premiere Strawberry cupcake minaudière,
as featured on Sex and the City!

- Hand beaded in the finest crystal
- Multi-size frosted pearl and teardrop crystal accents
- Snap closure, 19" chain
- Gold hardware
- Nappa leather lining
- 3 3/4"H x 3 1/2"W x 2"D

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Is the New York Post reading my blog :-)?

It has this, appropriately in its Fashion section:

Let them wear cupcake!

Stores are having a sugar rush over the sweetest trend for spring

This is followed by ten (wearable) items which, according to Johannah Masters, Freelance Stylist/Market Editor/Trend Forecaster, take their inspiration from the godly cupcake. These items range from a pair of cupcake earrings for $2.80 at Forever 21 to a Judith Leiber cupcake cocktail purse for $4,295 at Bergdorf Goodman. I suppose the $1,555 Miu Miu dress will just make you look cute and cupcakey.

I kind of like the cocktail purse, but since I don't have the resources to buy it, or the venue to wear it, I might try the $2.80 earrings (just for fun, and they look more like dangly baubles than cupcakes).

I recently posted my cupcake stories: Indulge in a Mini-Cupcake, and Serious Matters: Small Feet and Small Cakes(But Large Bosoms, where I opine that this new cupcake indulgence is a way to calm that "sweet tooth" which women are convinced they have, and need to satiate - a bit like alcoholics. Although my posts are about food, their point is that the image women have of themselves is either as too fat or as little girls, and never the mature, grown woman that they should be.

Of course, there is none of that judgmental take by the NYP, and its Freelance Stylist/Market Editor/Trend Forecaster Ms. Masters, who might indulge in cupcakes (sorry, mini-cupcakes) herself.

Cupcake earrings, just for fun
$2.80 at Forever 21,
50th W. 34th St. NYC