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Sharp and Flat
Why is this lady smiling? Because she found flat shoes that not only fit comfortably (OMG!), they look kinda cool (NOT like they came from the orthopedist's), and were well priced. That IS something to...
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AUTO PORTRAIT: A HOLIDAY TALE
We're in Bill Cunningham's On The Street in the Style Section of today's New York Times! (See the little watermarked gothic T in the lower right hand corner of the photo above and Bill's name in really...
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Start Me Up! Rolling Stones 50 Years and Counting
The Rolling Stones blasted into town in mid-December as part of their 5-concert 50th Anniversary Gorilla tour. After two gigs in London just after Thanksgiving, they sang two songs at the 12-12-12...
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Hats of the Year in Review!
As the year comes to a close, standard practice for the bigger news agencies is to look back on the big news stories of the year. Since the news of the year has largely been so negative, we couldn't...
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Fashionista See, Fashionista Do
Valerie says:So there I was, last December 18, catching up on my Forest City Fashionista reading, and Shelley was waxing ecstatic about Leonard Cohen. (Click here to read Shelley’s account of his...
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Ring Out the Old Year!
What a way to toast the end of 2012! Champagne with a handsome man on the balcony at Ralph Lauren overlooking the Rhinelander mansion. What's not to love, right? We rang out the old year in style. Hang...
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Emptying the Ocean with a Spoon
Valerie says: All it takes is one brief moment of courage. You look into your closet and point. YOU: stay (if only till the next time). YOU: go. I pulled out the biggest bag I have, and began to fill...
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Swinging in the New Year
.New Year's Day in Three Acts ACT ONE: BRUNCH WITH FRIENDSOn New Year's morning, the girls from the 'hood met us at BBar for brunch. Xtine (left center in faux fur hat) lives two blocks away from Jean...
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Diner Dinner
One of the added benefits of attending vintage shows in New York is not just to ogle a dazzling array of beautiful clothing and accessories, but also to meet and reconnect with an amazing group of...
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Fashion and Technology
A few weekends ago, we went to the Museum at FIT to view the latest exhibition, Fashion and Technology. Before even entering the exhibition, visitors are greeted with a fabulous video of Hussain...
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Person of Interest
Have you been watching Person of Interest, parts of which are filmed in New York? For a few days in August, Valerie observed POI film crews in various locations. Since the temperature in New York City...
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Jean's Excellent Palm Beach Adventure
On the Friday morning before the inauguration, as temperatures in the northeast were about to plummet to record breaking lows, Jean left Valerie behind and headed south to spend five days in Palm Beach...
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Play with Your Clothes: Pocket Change
. Jean is away, so Valerie, left to her own devices, writes: I bought myself a Muji raincoat (above) for under $20 at the Museum of Modern Art. Let me explain. I had this really cool slicker (purchased...
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You Can't Teach Old Liberal Arts Grads New Tricks
.But you can persuade them to discover some new and totally unexpected pleasure in mathematics.The dynamic duo, Fashionistas Idiosyncratic, triangulating @ the Museum Mathematic?Thirsting for...
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Suzy Homemaker
There must have been something in the water. Every blue moon or so one feels the need to tackle a Project. It all started when Valerie decided to buy this great straw hat at the Metropolitan Vintage...
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Everything Old Is You Again - We Visit the Metropolitan Vintage Show
Last weekend we went to the Manhattan Vintage Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion, one of our favorite destinations, to check out close to one hundred different vendors of vintage clothing, jewelry, and...
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Happy Chinese New Year!
We are both down with the a couple of the various respiratory bugs that have been going around, but neither wind nor rain nor dark of night will prevent us from delivering our Wednesday post (for free,...
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FIT's Shoe Obsession (and ours, too)
On February 7th, we braved the chilly weather to attend the press preview of Shoe Obsession at The Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology, to the uninitiated), and it was well worth taking a...
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Fashion Week February 2013
Last you heard from us, we were surrounded by exotic shoes out of amazing dream sequences.But wait! There's more!After feasting our eyes at the press preview for Shoe Obsession at the Museum at FIT,...
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IFs in PJs -- The Cats' Pajamas!
Sleepwear!MONTHS AGO we received an email from a reader who asked if we dressed as fashionably at home as we do in the blog.For Valerie, the response is: um, uh, well, mmmmm...See, Valerie lives with...
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