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On the First Day of a Feminine Christmas
This year my Christmas is being brought to me by Seventeen Magazine, or more specifically, the now-vintage Seventeens of my youth. There is a certain breathless charm about the December issues that are…
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Tender Gifts
I try to give gifts that have intimate meaning to the receiver whenever I can. I fall short sometimes and other times, I think I score. Some of the “best” gifts are not…
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Heaven Sent
I love this vintage ad for Helena Rubenstein’s Heaven Sent perfume. It ran in Seventeen for years. The sweet and now quaint copy is ostensibly the words of the fetching model, telling us…
