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Once Upon a Time
a story of rags, not riches (with a happy ending)Once upon a time, Valerie bought the Issey Miyake dress below because she loved the highly irregular, undulating cut of the sides. Alas, the colors...
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Da Da Da Da Da Da You Say It's Your Birthday
Da Da Da Da Da Da It's My Birthday Too, Yeah!Well, it's happened again. Â Valerie's gone and gotten older. Â She does that every year about this time. Some people go on vacation around the fourth of...
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We Can Do It!
While Jean is on a well earned vacation, Valerie would like to tell an inspiring story of personal triumph over inanimate objects.In one way, at least, I have become my mother. Â I have a transistor...
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Double Feature
Twenty Feet from StardomScatter My Ashes at Bergdorf'sWhat do sensible people do when the thermometer spikes and the city is in the throes of a heat wave? Go to the movies, of course!Air-conditioned...
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The Mad Hatter - Amy Downs
Jean says: Addiction is a terrible thing! In the grand scheme of things, hat addiction may be pretty low-down on the totem pole, so to speak, but it does involve a certain level of craving. Although...
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Do the Right Thing
Readers who go back a loooooong way will remember that Valerie had neuroma surgery on her left foot in 2010. Â (For those who don't remember, or would like to take a stroll down memory lane, click here...
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Art and Perspective
Regular readers know that Valerie had minor foot surgery recently. The doctor prescribed complete bed rest and leg elevation for the first two days, and extremely curtailed activity for the next...
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Artist / Rebel / Dandy The World of Dapper Men's Wear on View at RISD
Road trip! Last Saturday, we headed north to Providence to see Artist/Rebel/Dandy, the exhibition at the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Â RISD is hosting a groundbreaking show...
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Fine and Dandy
Museum exhibitions like RISD's (see our previous posting if you don't know WHAT we're talking about) take soooo much time to put together. Imagine ferreting out who might have a Fred Astaire suit or a...
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Employee of the Month AND Stolen Moment
Here we are at the end of another escapade in the city that never sleeps, in the 14th Street subway station to be precise. Â What experiences could have left us looking a tad smug, you might ask.Let's...
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Monochrome and Polychrome in New York
To wear, or not to wear? (Color, that is.) That is the question in New York. A little bit of both in today's post.The woman below was going strictly monochrome the day we ran into her in Brooklyn. We...
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Count Your Blessings - Prayer Beads
Since Friday evenings are free at the Rubin Museum on West 17th Street and since Jean was obsessed with seeing the prayer beads exhibit, we decided to check it out. Wanting to research whether wearing...
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American Graffiti (New York Style)
We can't resist graffiti -- as evidenced by Valerie's jacket! Examples are ubiquitous and wide ranging and the good ones are almost always surprising. Some are just tags of someone's street name in big...
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New York State of Mind
This little photo essay is a love letter to our city. In our daily travels we come across coded messages about the place we call home. We gather these up, and send them out to our readers when we hit...
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Right on Target: The Teaser! 3.1.Phillip Lim for Target
Have the Idiosyncratic Fashionistas finally gone to the dogs? (We knew you would say that when you saw the picture.) And in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge, no less?No! (Not yet, anyway...)...
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Behind the Scenes at the 3.1 Phillip Lim for Target Photo Shoot
Soooooo.... picking up where we left off in our last post:Â We were lucky enough to be among 20 "influential" New Yorkers tapped to participate in the New York segment of a six city cavalcade of local...
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Ice Ice Baby
Have we got a new cocktail experience to recommend to all our friends coming to town for New York Fashion Week! Called Minus 5 Ice Bar in the Hilton Hotel, the space is constructed entirely of ice -...
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We're in the 2013 Edition of StyleCasters' 50 Most Stylish New Yorkers!
OMG!  We were selected to be in StyleCasters' 2013 Edition of The 50 Most Stylish New Yorkers! Click here or on the link ( http://stylecaster.com/new-york-style-2013/ ) and check out #45 out of the 54...
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New York Fashion Week Parties: 3.1 Phillip Lim for Target and StyleCasters
On the first night of New York Fashion Week, we had not one, but two party invitations, and both were for fashion shoots we had participated in. Â It doesn't get much better than that. Â First up: 3.1...
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NY Fashion Week: Opening Ceremony's Zana Bayne 9/6/13
On Friday night, we attended Opening Ceremony's Fashion Week event on the Pier at West 16th Street and the Hudson River, highlighting a number of designers and products featured in the store. The...
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