…year, buying an evening gown seems unnecessary. How many times will you wear that dress again? And if you’re not in the wedding party, wearing long can look dated, even dowdy. A midi-dress or skirt, a length that is oh…
Tags: summer fashion 2017
…year, buying an evening gown seems unnecessary. How many times will you wear that dress again? And if you’re not in the wedding party, wearing long can look dated, even dowdy. A midi-dress or skirt, a length that is oh…
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
…get cleaned up (sort of) and wear eye makeup to go to the supermarket? Is there one piece of jewelry or clothing you wear to prove to yourself that you haven’t given up? • If you’re wearing sweatpants, do you…
Tags: coronavirus, fashion, janet kelly, pandemic, pandemic fashion
…why) I get this nasty ring rot ring finger. It gets red itchy scaly weird I stop wearing my wedding ring I apply cortisone I apply tea tree oil I dry my hands fully after each wash Slowly it goes…
Tags: Valerie Monroe
…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…
Tags: Nancy McKeon
…is she wearing a $300 dress to her billionaire mother’s wedding, when brother Roman, walking next to her, probably paid that for his shirt alone? (And personally, I don’t like all the boobage cuts that are out there. I really…
Tags: celebrity fashion, janet kelly, Kathy Legg, Nancy McKeon, shopping, TV fashion
…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!)….
Tags: skincare, Stephanie Cavanaugh
…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
…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
…probably from the late ’70s. “I still wear it.” — Designer Denise Dickens, of Washington DC’s Outside Designworks, stopped wearing clothing made by others back in 2002, when she started designing and selling clothing. But she acknowledges, “I do still…
Tags: Nancy McKeon, shopping
…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….
Tags: celebrity fashion, Nancy McKeon
…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
…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…
…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…
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…
Tags: museums, Nancy McKeon
…Brief History of Underwear.” Through March 12, 2017. Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London Just as pajamas have morphed into streetwear, corsets, bras and crinolines, once traditionally worn beneath clothing, are now moving from behind the scenes to the…
Tags: celebrity fashion, museums
…gotten so turned off by so much of what’s on red carpets these days. Too MUCH skin for my taste with gowns so ridiculously contrived my reaction is why even bother wearing anything. However, that’s not the reaction I have…
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