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Bugging Out!
Last Wednesday, Valerie posted about her fish and lobsters. This week, I'm talking about insects. I'm buggin' out! I scanned my jewelry and immediately saw a theme -- bugs. Lots of them. In all shapes...
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A Convergence of Crones: We Descend on the Manhattan Vintage Show
We went to the latest Manhattan Vintage Show with not one but two of our favorite bloggers - The Style Crone (far left) and Shelley, The Forest City Fashionista (between Judith and Jean). We even took...
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Ladies Who Lunch, Brunch and Munch!
Most of our weekdays are taken up with work, so we make up for lost time on evenings and weekends, often combining frivolity with food -- and hats. With Judith Boyd, The Style Crone, and Shelley, The...
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The Way You Wear Your Hat
If we had a dollar for every woman who has ever complimented us on our hats and then said "Hats just don't look good on me" or "I just can't wear hats", we could both retire now. Comfortably. Saying...
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We're in a Van She Music Video!
We are absolutely thrilled to be in the music video for Van She's latest album called "Idea of Happiness". One of our favorite songs from the album -- "Jamaica" -- is the background song for our...
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The IFs Go Back to College
LIM College, which specializes in fashion merchandising, recently held a two-day seminar called "Fashion: Now and Then". LIM College is strategically located only a few blocks away from Bergdorf’s,...
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Hurricane Sandy: The Halloween Surprise
Just a few photos today, while we pick up the pieces from Hurricane Sandy and look for something to smile about. Above, a few days before the storm, Valerie and Jean merrily try on their Halloween...
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FIT's Designers & Books Fair 2012
in which we each get a Chanel bagStyle conscious literary lionesses that we are, last weekend we attended the Designers & Books 2012 Fair at the conference center at the Fashion Institute of...
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Play with Your Clothes - Leopard Shoes, Meow!
Question: What do you do when the power goes out and you have no heat and no cell phone services? Answer: Play with your clothes!!!In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, when Manhattan south of 39th...
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Hand-Made: The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
Last Saturday morning we made our annual pilgrimage to the City of Brotherly Love to attend the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. This year, because of the sudden and unexplained demise of our...
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Philadelphia Story, Part II: Around 40 Shades of Gray
As we mentioned this past Sunday, there was just too much ground to cover in one posting, so we're taking another swing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show today. Longtime readers know we...
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Our Heads in the Clouds
Having had so much fun in 2010 exploring Doug and Mark Starn's Big Bambu on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art two years ago, it was a no-brainer that we would also go to see Tomas...
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At the corner of Dance & Art - Petronio Art Auction
Plus: Say Grace (Vogue's Grace Coddington, that is) On Monday evening, we attended an art auction to benefit Stephen Petronio Company (SPC) at the Metropolitan Pavililion. We (and as you will see,...
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Fashion Advice 5 Cents - Pier Show Shenanigans
Doesn't everyone want to give advice? And wouldn't it be great if we could get paid for it, too? For us, that dream came true at the latest Pier Antiques Show where, as you can see, we charged 5 cents...
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A Day on the (Small) Town: Jean's Birthday
We recently celebrated those two preeminent, pre-Christmas retailing events -- Jean's birthday and "Small Business Saturday" -- by hopping the Metro North train at Grand Central to the village of Cold...
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Pleats Please Me, Oh Yeah
Smack in the middle of the week, just when a girl could really use an eye-opening change of pace, we headed downtown to one of our favorite shopping and partying venues - the Issey Miyake store in...
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Yoko, Oh No!
We'd heard that Yoko Ono had a new line of clothing out - Fashions for Men - based on drawings she'd done for John Lennon waaaaaay back before many of you were born (but not before WE were born) and...
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Old Ladies' Rebellion
We were intrigued by London-based designer Fanny Karst's line called "The Old Ladies' Rebellion" and the fact that her runway models ranged in age from 60 to 80. When we recently learned that she would...
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Come for the Fun, Stay for the Art: Night at The Asia Society
PLUS: THE WHINE BAR Valerie's Trip to the Post Office Last week we went to the Asia Society intending to enjoy their holiday party - which we did - but we also wound up seeing an engrossing art...
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12-12-12
Well, you can't say nobody told you. We hope you remembered to mark 12-12-12 in some enjoyable way, because the next 12-12-12 won't come till 2112. (Doesn't 2112 have a great symmetry to it?) We were...
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