Archive for the ‘Style’ Category
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Backstory: The smelly history of women’s deodorant
03 Jun 2013Monday’s style is Sunday’s church clothes, laid out on my bed and ready to wear. *** To kick off summer,…
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The Future of Clothes: Laver’s dissection of a trend
29 May 2013Part of the fun of a vintage non-fiction book is finding the entire thing so out of date that it’s…
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A day at the track: lots of speed, not much fashion
23 May 2013At the start of May, my neighborhood begins a transformation. Semi-trucks holding race cars roll off the 465 exit ramps…
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Your décolleté: keep it to yourself, will you?
21 May 2013Admit it. You think a corsage is a small spray of flowers worn on a woman’s clothes, don’t you? Well…
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Backstory: Where have all the great fashion illustrators gone?
16 May 2013The English author James Laver wrote things I’ve never heard of: the novel-turned- musical Nymph Errant (1933) and poems…
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Investment garments: why buy them and how to milk them for all they’re worth
13 May 2013You could almost think about managing your wardrobe like making chili: you probably have a recipe and anything outside of…
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Pulling out all the vintage stops for the school costume
08 May 2013It must be the bane of every working Mom’s existence when a child comes home from school in need of…
