
I’m like a kid at Christmas this time of year. Not because I’m happy about the crazy early-bird retailers who are already hauling out the wrapping paper and ornaments and other holiday goodies, but because I wait with the same eager expectation for The Vintage Fashion Expo that I once waited for Santa.
Certainly the opportunity to traipse through the huge venue and ogle the goods…
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Well, ladies, she’s gone and done it again!
As reported at HuffingtonPost, our FLOTUS, Michelle Obama, resurrected two wardrobe items for public appearances this week including a floral-print Moschino suit first sported in 2009 and a black-and-gray Jonathan Saunders dress from Fall 2008 that she also wore to Sargent Shriver’s funeral this past January.
What’s interesting to me is that this is somehow news.
After all, don’t all…
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The first examples of musical notations were found on clay tablets in Mesopotamia around 1800 BC and music’s come quite a long way since then. I’m sure the ancients who carved those tablets could never have imagined someone like Lady Gaga playing their notes! But whether you can tell an octave from a clef doesn’t really matter because, as I was reminded by the Kiki…
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It used to be that when little girls learned their ABCs, they identified simple one-syllable words like ant, boat and coat. Not anymore! Seems the fashion bug is catching girls at younger and younger ages so that many teen girls today can now correctly pronounce (and spell!) Alaia, Balenciaga and, of course, Chanel–the Holy Grail.
While little girls might have once dreamed of castles and princes who…
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