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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The No. 1 Ladies' Costume Designer - BDV Interviews Jo Katsaras
... JK: I think clothing is your first aura, it's what the world sees of your personality ...
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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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The Lady With 400 Long-Sleeved Blouses
... I was greeted by towering stacks of clothing arranged along a sizable sectional sofa, a coffee table, and a wing chair ...
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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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Going for Baroque: an Interview With Kat Peng
... I was mesmerized. By the time it was over, and she'd won "Best Historical Costume," I was fascinated ...
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It's Vintage, Dahling - an Interview With Carmen
... if they just go with their heart's desire, instead of what is dictated by the fashion tyrants, their confidence will soar to great new heights ...
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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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