
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

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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This is the final week to catch The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition: Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan. The exhibition features about 85 kimonos for men, women and children from the early to mid-twentieth century. And this is the first time these outstanding kimonos, from the renowned Montgomery Collection of Lugano, Switzerland, are being seen in North America.
Today’s VPOD features just one…
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