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The Pillow Book
I’m known for frequent obsessions that often lead me down rabbit holes for weeks and weeks at a time. Whereupon, I must then find books, photos, links, papers, etc. to feed a compulsive need…
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Laura Quinn, Working Girl Style
Laura Quinn (Demi Moore) is a fascinating style icon for the working girl. Her controlled 1960’s look mirrors her contained deameanor. Always being overlooked for promotions over the Mad Men dressed males…
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Book of Model Beauty
Aren’t these line drawings adorable? They are from “Eileen Ford’s Book of Model Beauty”. My friend Kay introduced me to the book when she brought it to my house and I borrowed it…
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Mrs. Carlton
I was thrilled that my 7th grade American History teacher was to be Mrs. Barbara Carlton. My older brother had her the year before and told me that she was great. Where we lived…
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Winter Becomes Us
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invinciblesummer. ~Albert Camus I have no quarrel with winter and I love that January’s promise is to begin anew.…
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Isn’t She Lovely?
I love the month of October; it is heralded in by my birthday and it begins the happy run up to the holidays. As my custom, I watch the DVD of Mona Lisa…
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Lipstick Love
I strolled through a grove of dress material and found myself at a counter piled with jars of face creams and lipsticks…I caught sight of my own face, colourless and worried-looking, the eyes…
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Candybox
I collect vintage woman’s magazines, particularly, those from the 1930’s – 40’s. They have some darling photographs that recall great fashion eras when women dressed to kill every single day, often on shoestring…
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Powder Up
It has been hot as heck in New England which is unusual. Does anyone remember the opening lines of To Kill a Mockingbird? Grown up Scout recounts the hot as Hades summers in…
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Warm Weather DressingMy favorite summer ensemble may feel a bit pajama-like but certainly doesn’t look so. By layering my favorite linen wide-legs, with a camisole top under a floaty cardigan, I can have…
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Early Summer Beauty Summer beauty can be a challenge. The hot weather along with summer’s monkeywrench, humidity, can make one’s hair limp and unmanageable. However, the worse thing that Uncle Humidity does to…
