In a Box, With Tissue Paper
... I've been buying both reproduction and original antique garments and accessories. Not for collecting. I intend to wear and use them ...
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Vanity Unfair -- What's Up With Modern Sizing?
... Do we move into negative numbers? Or just go to Baby Gap? ...
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Silent Movie - "The Loves of Pharaoh"
... What scenarios from our current dramatic cinema will send future audiences into fits of giggles, while wondering what our long-ago reaction had been? ...
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Exhibit Visit - "Fashionable Silhouettes" at the Mint Museum
... The first side of the first horse-shoe spanned 1745-90 ...
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Behind the Scenes at the Biltmore Hotel
... Unlike the hotel, the apartment lobby retains much of its original charm, with black and white marble tile and delicate crystal chandeliers in the entrance hall ...
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Exhibit Visit - Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
... women were given lots of choices -- not of careers, mind you, but of appliances ...
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I Can't Find a Thing That Ain't Got That Bling
... As usual, what I wanted and what everyone else wanted were worlds apart ...
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Not-So-Happy Hour: My Quest for a Cocktail Dress
... With a $1,600 price tag and a waist in need of nipping, it didn't make the cut ...
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Costume Drama
... The dress was headed to a young enlisted woman on active duty, living on a battle ship stationed somewhere off the coast of Japan ...
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Skirting the Issue
... Being "on trend" today means wearing your skirt 5 inches above your knee, a la "The Real Housewives." But should you? ...
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My Birthday Was Off the Hook!
... no phone that slips easily into your back pocket compares with one that can double as a weapon ...
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