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MANUS X MACHINA: Fashion in the Age of Technology
Last week, we attended the press preview for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's newest exhibition MANUS x MACHINA - FASHION IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY on the morning of the day of the...
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THE HAT CHALLENGE
We are always puzzled when we hear our lady friends lament that they can't wear hats. Â Many say they don't have the right face or the right hair, when the obvious answer is that they just don't have...
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Jean's Excellent Spanish Adventure
Last week at this time, Jean was hanging out with friends in Barcelona, Spain, after the Formula 1 Grand Prix race. Â (More about the race itself in next Wednesday's posting.) Â Here is her story:Here I...
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A Current Affair: Vintage Show in Industry City, Brooklyn
"A Current Affair" is an amalgamation of 80 West Coast and East Coast vintage vendors which returned to Industry City in Brooklyn, NY on May 21 and 22, 2016. Since Valerie was otherwise engaged for the...
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HATS AND POLITICS
The news from Valerie:The folks who live in my building had a meeting not too long ago. They said it was to discuss current issues, but to me there is only one: we have been deprived of access to our...
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Walking with the Muses - and with Pat Cleveland
Here we are, last Thursday evening, at The Jane Hotel for a party celebrating Pat Cleveland's new book, "Walking with the Muses". Since we never communicate clearly in advance about what we plan to...
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Antonio Lopez at El Museo del Barrio
Antonio Lopez, probably the most extraordinary fashion illustrator of the 1970s and 80s, is being celebrated at El Museo del Barrio in their current exhibition, Future Funk Fashion.  Last week we...
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IN MEMORIAM: BILL CUNNINGHAM
It is with the heaviest of hearts that we write this post.  By now, the world has heard of the passing of Bill Cunningham.His fans are legion. He was definitely old school and a real gentleman, but...
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REQUIEM FOR A YELLOW SUIT
Here's the news from Valerie:The photograph above may be the only picture I have of myself wearing that yellow pants suit, which makes me very sad. Â It's from Bill Cunningham's On the Street, which is...
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MAD HATTERS at City Lore Gallery
"MAD HATTERS: New York Hats and Hatmakers" is a fun show at City Lore Gallery in the East Village which celebrates the fact that NYC, known for having attitude, possesses just as big dose of emblematic...
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TRAVELING WHILE OLD: VALERIE GOES TO BOSTON
Anish Kapoor's Halo, Peabody-Essex MuseumValerie says: The last time I went to Boston the fastest way to get there was by Amtrak, and that took five fours - IF the train had no delays, and that was a...
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NOT JUST A WALK IN THE PARK
Looks like it's just a walk in the park, but it's not. Â It's another of our silly adventures. Â But it's summer, and it's vacation time, so we're taking it a bit easy. Â (That is, we're not staying up...
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ATTACK OF THE KILLER RAMBUTANS and Other Unusual Tales
One of the more interesting things about having a blog partner is that when one of you gets a hare-brained scheme, you have a partner you can rope into going along with you. Case in point: Valerie got...
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Party, Party, Party!
photograph courtesy Denton TaylorWe received one of those invitations you can't turn down from Ruthie Darling (her blog here; her Instagram here), announcing that she was celebrating her imminent...
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"Murder on the High C's" - Florence Foster Jenkins
The title of this post is also the title of Naxos Records' recording of nine of Florence Foster Jenkins' songs. (In other words, we ripped it off, but we HAD to. Â It was too good not to share.) On the...
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YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS
While Jean is wrestling with household demons (more on that, hopefully, in weeks to come), Valerie reports:Yes, that's a great big red and gold bow on my finger. Â It's that old mnemonic device to help...
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GOING, GOING, GONE
DON'T LOOK NOW...On second thought. Look now. Â Quickly. Â Before it's gone...While Jean is away, Valerie gets wistful for the good old days (that's what old people do, right?)Jean and I like to think of...
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In Which We Visit a Sanatorium and a Prune
Aided and Abetted by the Inimitable Sue Kreitzman!We started off our long Labor Day weekend with a bang! Â To be precise, we had an adventure with Sue Kreitzman, artist, author, documentary film star,...
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Roz Chast Show at Museum of City of New York
We recently went to see cartoonist Roz Chast's Cartoon Memoirs show at the Museum of the City of New York. The exhibition of almost 200 works, some never published, was originally organized by the...
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TRIFECTA: Sue Kreitzman, Milliners' Guild Show at the Fire Museum and Rooftop...
We have some serious catching up to do. It has been weeks since we've blogged about what we've been up to. (For the record, we have been posting to Instagram, because, well, it's more instant.) Â We...
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MASTERWORKS: UNPACKING FASHION at The Costume Institute
Valerie says: Â Recently, while Jean was working much too hard and I was nursing a broken wrist (see Exhibit A, above, a cast swaddled in a cartoon stocking), I had the opportunity to attend the...
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THE FABULOUS CHROMAT SHOW AT NEW YORK FASHION WEEK
New York Fashion Week is finally here! We both wanted to wear something dazzling to the Chromat runway event. They put on such a show for us, it's only fair to return the favor. Â But the day before...
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EASTER PARADE 2017
It's that time of year again! We joined the Easter Parade celebrants in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Â As for our colleague? Somehow, this was not our mental image that comes to mind when hearing...
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We're Today Show 2017 Style Heroes!!
Jean and Valerie here -- The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas . We are thrilled to be among the 40 Today Show 2017 Style Heroes announced in Today's "Wear What You Want" Week! For those of you who don't know...
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TOKYO TRAVELOGUE
TRAVELING WHILE OLDHi, all.Valerie here.Some of you may have seen that I took a short trip to Tokyo back in October. Â It's about time I showed you some pictures from my trip.I lived there from 1981 to...
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