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The Way She Looks Tonight
I picked up “The Way She Looks Tonight” while staying in my friend Karen’s guest room in Rochester last month. It looked like a light read that would lull me back to sleep…
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Why don’t you…..wear a tartan skirt?
The inimitable Diana Vreeland included a column called “Why don’t you….?” in Harpers Bazaar when she was at the magazine’s helm. Her little suggestions were at times audacious as in, “Why don’t you…
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Fall Issue
Vogue has yet to give us a glimpse of the cover of its September issue but we do know that Lady Gaga will grace it. This is the much anticipated thick as a…
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Sisters
I met Miss Mary Sears last Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She becharmed me so much that I have been googling her as well as the painter of her…
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Vicky
When my daughter was a small child, I gave her a book called The Little While Friends, about pals that she would meet and enjoy briefly but never see again. I was thinking of…
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Spring Dance
For spring, Valentino has done some gorgeous party dresses. There’s a navy chiffon short number with embroidered flowers and a full skirt, some beautiful fitted lace sheaths in exquisite colors. Sweet feminine fluff…
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“Embroidered so with flowers…”
I like nothing better than a good embellishment. Not the Christmas sweater variety, but a slightly fancy, pretty little thing on a belt, handbag, or shoe. And mostly I like flowers. The problem…
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Hat Lady
I am a hat lady. I wear them. A lot. I love straw hats in the summer but I especially love winter hats. I would not have been caught dead in a hat…
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Dress Code
Tonight is Christmas Eve and even though I have a small house with limited seating, my annual party has a dress code. I don’t expect ball gowns and tuxedos but I do expect…
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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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Joan
My mother has always been a petite little thing. And she’s always loved clothes. Somehow she manages to find the perfect well-made garment among all the masses of cheaply made clothes at our…
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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…
