…branches in DC, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Saloni’s dark floral print dress fills the bill for what to wear to an afternoon wedding late summer or early fall. $575, modaoperandi.com. The metal-plated belt accentuates the waist of this Halston Heritage jumpsuit….
Tags: summer fashion 2017
…summer wedding or three you’ve been invited to. Although the dress code on the invitation is likely not to be as specific as the one (“day dress and hat”) to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding, and a fascinator will…
Tags: summer fashion 2018
…normally is not a wedding cake, but a series of “spoon desserts.” This one was served at my daughter’s wedding outside of Ascoli Piceno in Le Marche. Wedding Tiramisu Serves 10 A faithful adaptation of the tiramisu served at my…
Tags: Kitchen Detail, Nancy Pollard
…a beard 40 years later. Does his wife know what’s under there? Meanwhile, I resemble a basset hound in a turtleneck, a situation that is reaching crisis level as my daughter’s April wedding approaches. To paraphrase Catherine Deneuve, At some…
Tags: skincare, Stephanie Cavanaugh
…this does.” Perhaps I just need better training, but the only lemon I want to be sucking is at the wedding, in a gin and tonic. –Stephanie Cavanaugh More Mother of the Bride struggles coming up soon (before the wedding!)….
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…the richly ornamented and exquisitely detailed gowns of Ann Lowe, a New York-based African American designer who specialized in debutante and wedding gowns. Lowe designed Jacqueline Bouvier’s gown for her wedding to John F. Kennedy, as well as the gown…
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…figure her for it. Janet: If looks could kill . . . But, who could blame Gerri for being mad as hell at being fired awkwardly, by of all people—Roman! But she’s keeping her cool at Connor’s wedding in a…
Tags: celebrity fashion, janet kelly, Kathy Legg, Nancy McKeon, shopping, TV fashion
…called for appropriate daytime frocks. Even wedding dresses of the era (far right) were more subdued than some of the Cinderella gowns seen today. Courtesy, Winterthur. Photography by James Schneck. Detail of a daytime dress worn to Lady Edith’s wedding….
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…wedding-reception centerpieces. A florist had given us a quote for what were really quite simple arrangements and after I scraped myself off the floor I thought, Surely there’s a more reasonable way . . . The wedding theme was a…
…velvet robe. Like the opening section, “Dressing the Part” includes well-known costumes, such as Elizabeth’s and Margaret’s wedding dresses and Prince Philip’s and King George’s military uniforms, replicated based on photographic records and film footage. To make Elizabeth’s 1947 wedding…
Tags: janet kelly, museums
…her wedding to John Fitzgerald Kennedy.) / Photo courtesy of Hillwood. This modern dinner dress, made by Oldric Royce, Inc., New York, around 1960, is a variation on Post’s 1958 (fourth) wedding dress. / Photo courtesy of Hillwood. Thanks to…
Tags: museums
…sheltered from rain and therefore dry out and, well, die. So I went online and hunted up fake boxwood, ordering five faux balls from a wedding-supply vendor. (Who uses fake flowers in wedding displays, I ask you? And then I…
…(of course, I was always crying). But the one I regret most has been gone quite some time: B. Altman & Co., Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. My great-grandmother bought the fabric for her daughter’s (my grandmother’s) 1906 wedding dress…
Tags: janet kelly, shopping
…gardenias in my bouquet, which horrified my ex-mother-in-law-to-be. “Oh no!” she said. “Don’t you know gardenias at a wedding are unlucky?” Why would I know that? I carried roses instead, though it didn’t matter, since the marriage was doomed before…
…Pauline Trigère gown to a wedding . . . in 1970. Janet herself wore it, once, to a gala. Mention Trigère’s name to anyone under 40 and be prepared to be met with a blank stare, but the French-born designer…
Tags: Nancy McKeon, shopping
A 2013 haute couture wedding dress from Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel is the centerpiece of the Met’s “Manus x Machina” exhibit. Iris van Herpen’s dress with 3D-printed barnacles, seen in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts’ #techstyle exhibit. “Uniformity” at the…
Tags: celebrity fashion, museums
…in PG Wodehouse stories in the early 20th century. Jeeves’s employer considered it a worthy wedding gift for friends. If you never got one as a wedding gift, get one for yourself now. You truly need this. Its ingenious design…
Tags: Kitchen Detail, Nancy Pollard
From the Musée de Cluny – Musée National du Moyen Âge in Paris, comes this wedding ring, the most technically accomplished example of goldsmith’s work in the Colmar Treasure. Its miniature dome and supporting arches mimic the imagined form of…
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