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It Ain't All Glam
And If You're in Toronto on Tuesday, October 21… (scroll down)We are always so tickled when we get notes from old friends, or new friends, or friends-to-be who describe our lives as glamorous or...
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This Moment Is More Precious Than You Think
Jean is traveling tonight, and Valerie, just back from the Diversity Now 2014 panel discussion at Ryerson University (more on that soon), is regrouping.  So in this post ...… we'd like to present you...
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The Manhattan Vintage Clothing Show
Every Year a Vintage YearThe Manhattan Vintage Clothing Show was in town this week, as was our friend Shelley, aka Canada's Forest City Fashionista, who made what seems to be shaping up as an annual...
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Diversity Now 2014
A Trip to Toronto to Talk to Fashion StudentsAbout Dressing the Non-Standard BodyValerie says:You can't tell, but that's me, second from the right in front of the screen, speaking at Ryerson...
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A Gathering of the Clans - When Bloggers Intersect
Last week, we posted on the Manhattan Vintage Show and featured photos of two fellow bloggers we met over the internet with whom we've become friends: Shelley, the Forest City Fashionista and Patti of...
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Neverland: Our Latest Trip to Magazineland
andFalling Down is Not Just a Movie              with Michael DouglasWay back in August, you may remember we did a posting about our meeting and style shoot with the wonderful young Russian...
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HaaT Trick! Issey Miyake Celebrates HAAT's 25th Anniversary
On Friday night, the folks at Tribeca Issey Miyake threw a party in honor of the 25th anniversary of its HaaT line, and we were lucky enough to be invited.Brilliant red HaaT banners and selections from...
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Beauty in Japan
One of our very first posts of the year gave readers a link to a Japanese blog, L'Ideal Japon, which featured photographs of older women in Tokyo's stylish Ginza district. Â We have been in touch with...
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Made by Hand, Made in America
It's that time of year when we fly (okay, we bus) south to the City of Brotherly Love to attend the Philadelphia Museum Craft Show. And once again, we were not disappointed. Â With high rents forcing...
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SPECIAL ALERT: RADIO DAYS!
THE IFs MAKE THEIR RADIO DEBUT TOMORROW (Tuesday, November 18)!Yes, that's us, in a photo taken in a recording studio from the other side of the sound booth, being interviewed by Sandi Klein for The...
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Hat-cha-cha-cha-cha!**
The Fabulous Hats of Ignatius Creegan and Rod GivensIgnatius Creegan and Rod Givens are the mad geniuses behind Ignatius Hats. Longtime readers know of our well-chronicled addiction to their millinery...
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Pier Review
We rock The Pier Show!On the Saturday before Thanksgiving, we went to the Pier Show to check out an amazing selection of vintage women's and men's clothing, hats (of course!), jewelry, handbags and...
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Jean hits the big 6-5!
What do black cats, The Ramones, Bride of Frankenstein, chocolate biscotti and cocktails have in common? Â Jean's birthday, of course! Â Jean turned 65 on Monday. We started celebrating on Sunday by...
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Our Interview for Sandi Klein's Conversations with Creative Women
Is this thing on?On a recent Saturday, we had the great pleasure and good fortune to be interviewed by Sandi Klein as part of her Conversations with Creative Women radio show, which streams on Sandi's...
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Art Lesson / Life Lesson
Henri Matisse: The Cut-OutsAt the age of 71, in 1941, Henri Matisse had surgery for colon cancer. Â Thereafter dependent on a wheel chair and unable to work at an easel, he had to give up the painting...
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We're Fashion Decode Magazine's December 2014 Cover Girls!
"The Faces of Modern Beauty: The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas"Here's how we appear on the cover of the December 2014 issue of Fashion Decode.  Just about the best early Christmas present we could ever...
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Get Your Christmas Tree All Spruced Up
Americans decorate everything: ourselves, our cars, apartments, bicycle, dogs, cakes -- and our holiday trees! It's that time of year when a girl's thoughts turn to sugar plums and fairies -- AND...
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GOOD MOURNING
We visit Death Becomes Her, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's look at widows' weeds in America and Great BritainOn the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we went to "Death Becomes Her", the exhibition of...
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Get Off the Holiday Gift-Giving Treadmill!
When you are as opinionated as we are, buying anything for each other as a surprise is especially challenging and fraught with too many potential pitfalls to count. Luckily, a few years ago, we decided...
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BEAUTY IS POWER
HELENA RUBINSTEIN AT THE JEWISH MUSEUMWe had the great honor of receiving an invitation to the opening night of Beauty is Power, The Jewish Museum's exhibition devoted to exploring the fascinating...
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