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1953
Pardon me while I am away. I’m visiting 1953. As a teenager, I loved pouring over my parents’ high school yearbook – Class of ’53. The fashions, the bespectacled prim “spinster” teachers, the…
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In Praise of Yellow
The sweetest floral centerpiece I ever saw had buttercups in it. The hostess picked them from her own lawn and jammed them every which way into her swanky floral arrangement. As little as…
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Go Where the Love Is
A few years ago, when I was plagued with unkind women at work, I told myself that I only wanted to go where the love was. I no longer wanted to share my…
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A Seventeen Spring
As much as I love my vintage Back-to-School Seventeen’s, when April comes around, I like to pull out my handful of spring numbers. Seventeen makes even dull rainy April days look like fun. …
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Bespoke
I saw a bespoke headband from the Gap recently. It was labeled “bespoke”. That’s an adjective I’ve been seeing alot of – especially the last few years. So much so, that it’s now…
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Turnips
There is a marvelous scene in the British series House of Eliott where the Eliott sisters, who have been left destitute by their recently-deceased philandering father, tell each other that despite all their…
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Lilac Season
A friend told me yesterday that she is allergic to lilacs. She had my complete sorrow and sympathy. I can’t imagine spring without them. We had several bushes of lilacs on my street…
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The Secret of the Garden
I felt a pang of tenderness when I glanced down at the floor in front of my mother’s bureau the other day. Neatly, side by side, were a pair of Wellington-like rubber boots…
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Camelot
I love this dress by Tony Ward, who designs gowns and bridal wear from Paris. It looks like something a snow queen would wear or perhaps Vanessa Redgrave could have worn it in…
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How Did You Know?
My grandmother sometimes called me Little Sarah Bernhardt who is the actress looking pleased with herself in the portrait above. I admit to feeling a little pleased with myself as I responded to…
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Shopping in February
Kate Spade handbags and accessories always contain colorful little cards with witty fashion quotes. I’ve saved a few because they make me think of my Aunt Meme (Marie), my godmother, and her sister…
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A Lovely Inconsequence
Did you know that the phrase “a lovely inconsequence” was penned for Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy? Historian and public intellectual Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. was having dinner one evening with John and Jackie Kennedy. Asked…
