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Playing Dress Up: The Senior Version
When parents are faced with snowy days, they invite a neighbor's kid over so the kids can entertain each other, and the parents can get on with the serious business of balancing the check book. Or...
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Elf Cap? Ski Hat? Heck, No. It's an Urban Turban!
Winter weather in the northeast -- and most of the country -- has been brutal, with high winds, low temperatures, snow, sleet and freezing rain. When just staying warm is the priority, many throw style...
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A Rose & Diamonds & Champagne - The Incomparable Rose Hartman!
Last Thursday evening, we set out in the latest -- and hopefully the last -- blizzard of our seemingly endless winter to attend the launch of photographer Rose Hartman's new book "Incomparable Couples"...
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Art for Art's Sake
This weekend, we attended the 27th Art Dealers Association of America Annual Art Show to benefit Henry Street Settlement at the Park Avenue Armory. The art in the show ranged from post-card size works...
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Two Things You Didn't Know About Us
We've been doing this blog for over five years, and readers know all about what we wear and where we go, but we don't talk too much about personal things, such as our individual likes and dislikes. So...
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Brackets, Schmackets. March Madness IF Style!
March Madness is finally upon us! The NCAA basketball playoffs are in full swing. While it may seem hard to believe, we've been following the career of a collegiate superstar, the son of this lovely...
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Staley-Wise Gallery's Fete for Rose Hartman
On Thursday evening, we attended an event for Rose Hartman at Staley-Wise Gallery in Soho. James Smith took amazing photographs that evening, including the one above (because once again we thought we...
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Dos and Don'ts - Some Behind the Scenes Stuff
In which necessity is sometimes the mother of invention, and sometimes the mother of mayhemWhat we didn't tell you when we posted this photo a few weeks ago is that while Jean is holding her champagne...
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Treasure Hunting at the Pier Antique Show
On Saturday, we headed to the Upper West Side to the Pier Antique Show. While the winter vintage shows are heavy on furs and woolens, the Spring shows feature lots of clothing in lighter fabrics,...
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Imitation: the Sincerest Form of Flattery? Or Just Copying?
The Museum at FIT is currently showing a provocative exhibition entitled Faking It: Originals, Copies and Counterfeits, in which they raise a number of interesting questions. (Sorry, everyone - no...
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Hats Off! We Make the Centerfold - of The New York Post
Recently, we were approached by New York Post Senior Features Writer Jane Ridley to be interviewed and photographed for an article about the Easter Parade to run on Saturday, April 4th, the day before...
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Box o' Sox
We are out gallivanting tonight, so here is a short post in our continuing Suzy Homemaker series.What do you do when you wake up two hours before the alarm clock is set to go off, and you know you...
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Easter Parade 2015
After what seemed to be the endless winter, the sun came out on Easter Sunday. Just as we arrived at Fifth Avenue via East 50th Street (the location of St. Patrick's Cathedral) to join the parade, we...
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The Eyes Have It!
One of the harbingers of spring is the annual l.a.Eyeworks benefit sale hosted by Alexander Gray Associates with proceeds supporting Art Matters. On this occasion, Valerie was KO'd all week by the...
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The Manhattan Vintage Show: Your Source in the Fight Against Normcore
We had the pleasure of dining with Sue Kreitzman the other night (a story for another time), and she said she had only just heard the expression NORMCORE for the first time. Normcore is a unisex...
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It Ain't Heavy - It's My Necklace
In which we finally get just a tad snarkySo there we are, on any given day, out together or separately, minding our own business and wearing huge necklaces (so popular that they apparently have a name:...
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IS IT GOING TO BE A BUMPY NIGHT?
A Chance for Readers to Advise UsNot too long ago, Valerie bought this vintage black taffeta dress at one of her favorite resale shops.She had this idea (now DON'T LAUGH!) that it looked a lot like the...
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Mi Casa, Su Casa (Lever, that is)
A couple of weeks ago, Valerie was at Green Flea, the best indoor/outdoor flea market in Manhattan, (100 West 77th St at Columbus Ave) and ran into artist Sue Kreitzman, who is in town from London....
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Crowning Glory - Orly, Five Years Later!
Way back in 2009, we told you the story of our friend Orly, then 55, and how she dealt with the loss of all her hair due to breast cancer treatment. (If you missed that story, click here.) She drew...
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We Go to the Head of the Class
to talk to fashion and design students about style and aging ... Regular readers may remember that Valerie flew to Toronto last October to participate in a panel discussion with other bloggers of a...
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