
Some women are more than willing to sacrifice comfort for style. They’ll prance around for hours in their pinching high heels until their toes are numb. They’ll stuff their bodies into their Spanx and force themselves to take shallow breaths for hours on end. They’ll even endure scratchy fabrics with a smile on their faces.
And then there are the rest of us.
Those of us who…
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Written on
September 27, 2010 by
Mary Kincaid in
1970s,
Designer,
Jackets,
Kimono,
Separates,
Skirts,
YSL,
Yves Saint Laurent,
vintage,
vintage clothes,
vintage clothing

I was paging through the August edition of a fashion magazine yesterday (from back to front as I have a habit of doing), when I stopped on a page that told me that color-block handbags were OUT. And we all know, because Heidi Klum reminds us each week on Project Runway, that when it comes to fashion, “You’re either in, or you’re out!”
So imagine my…
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ABC News reports that there are 84,000 centenarians living in the United States—that’s folks who have reached the ripe ol’ age of 100 years or more. And when I think of all the changes they’ve seen in their lifetimes, I often wonder if they feel like they’ve been characters living in a science fiction novel.
After all, in the past 100 years they’ve witnessed the birth…
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If you’ve been experiencing the intense heat wave creating record high temperatures this summer, probably the last thing you want to look at is anything made of heavy knit, wool, or tweed.
But global warming is not only making our hot days hotter. Oh no, no, no. While winters are becoming milder and shorter on average, we can also expect the effects of global warming to produce…
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Written on
June 7, 2010 by
Mary Kincaid in
1930s,
1940s,
1950s,
1960s,
1980s,
Coats,
Dresses,
Edwardian,
Embroidered,
Evening Gowns,
Handbags,
Hattie Carnegie,
Hermes,
Jackets,
Lanvin,
Little Black Dress,
Patricia Smith,
Pierre Cardin,
Vintage Jewelry,
art deco,
capes,
cockail dresses,
costume jewelry,
ebay,
vintage,
vintage clothes,
vintage clothing