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Three Men Save the Day
We are experiencing technical difficulties, so we will be posting what we really want to show you tomorrow night (Thursday), instead of tonight. Above is the requisite photo of us, and for the rest of...
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China: Through the Looking Glass - Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute
What a way to start the week! Bright and early Monday morning, we attended the Press Preview presentation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's latest exhibition titled China: Through...
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Two Evenings with Ralph Rucci
Outside Cooper Hewitt - still light out, post-lecture!Two weeks ago, we were lecturing to students at Parsons. This week, the tables were turned and for two evenings, we were students of designer...
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At the Dead Rabbit in the Five Points
Taking advantage of the good weather, we recently headed downtown to the historic Five Points area at the bottom of Manhattan island to The Dead Rabbit at 30 Water Street, to sample some of its...
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What Lies Beneath
The body is a reflection of the society that presided over its creation. - Denis BrunaIn April we attended the opening night preview of Bard Graduate Center Gallery's show: Fashioning the Body: An...
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Good / Day / Black / Rock
We're having technical difficulties (what? again?!), so rather than risk black circles under our eyes, we're just going to tempt you with a fun photo tonight and ask you to come back tomorrow night....
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Black ... IS the New Black
Sometimes, nothing satisfies like black! And simply nothing else will do. We've had these fabulous black patent lip bags for months (courtesy of Amarcord, a great place for vintage clothes, as we've...
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A Hint of Frida
We should be blogging, but it's the three-day holiday weekend for us, too, so we're playing hookey today and will put up a real post tomorrow. Above is just a sampling of tomorrow's post.We went to...
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Frida Kahlo: Art - Garden - Life!
The anticipation was killing us. Style Crone was coming to New York and Frida Kahlo was coming to the Bronx. On Sunday, it finally all came together! We met Judith aka Style Crone at Grand Central...
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Wearing Cuffs - in Public!
We put this photo on Instagram the other day, and just as people have often commented on Jean's bakelite, a number of people commented on Valerie's Frida cuffs.So we thought we'd show you how to make...
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A Current Affair: Vintage in Brooklyn's Industry City
With our old vintage haunts in Manhattan disappearing - victims of high real estate prices - we were thrilled to be invited to A Current Affair's, Pop-Up Vintage Marketplace in Brooklyn's Industry City...
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Farewell to the Countess of Glamour
It is with the deepest sadness that we mark the passing of Lynn Dell Cohen, aka the Countess of Glamour, pictured here with us just before Easter in her custom orange and brown coat and matching turban...
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TAMARA
Jean should be blogging tonight, but she's traveling.Valerie should be blogging tonight, but she's taking her #$%&* computer to the 24 hour computer store for help.So - hopefully - we'll be...
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Off Broadway's Memorial for Lynn Dell Cohen
On June 5th, in an email with this colorful quartet of photos, we received this bittersweet invitation:"The Family, Friends and Staff of Off Broadway Boutique cordially invite you to The Life...
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A Tea Party Full of Mad Hatters!
On a recent Friday afternoon, Carol Markel (aka Femme et Fleur) and Debra Rapoport threw a tea party to celebrate the fact that Judith Boyd (aka The Style Crone) and Jean Barrett (aka Dross into Gold)...
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THE VIEW FROM THE STREET
Jean is traveling; Valerie spent several nights over the past week going back and forth to the computer store on a hard drive issue. Computer issues probably have to be added to that classic list of...
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THE PRICE WE PAY FOR GLAMOUR
Readers might remember we dressed up all in black a few weeks ago, looking all glam and ready for our close-ups, but you know the expression "never let 'em see you sweat" which, loosely translated...
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Shakespearean Tragedy
This is us around 6:30 on Sunday, waiting for the doors to open for an 8pm performance of Shakespeare in the Park. Didn't get home till after 11, so more on this on Monday.
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Shakespearean Travesty
In which we go to see The Tempest (the play) and wind up in the tempest (the weather)"The Tempest" Ivan Ivazovsky Wikiart.OrgDear Diaries:Shakespeare in the Park has been a New York City fixture since...
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The Hundred Dollar Challenge
Valerie says:Jean has entrusted me with tonight's post. Hahahahahahahahahaha. Like my mom trusting me to behave with my boyfriend. (It's okay - I'll entrust her with the next Wednesday post....
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