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Essentials and encouragements from an ex-fashion editor

The Pussy-Bow Blouse

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The Pussy-Bow Blouse

We all love cats in our house… Sid especially. He was never allowed one in his own home growing up, so he got one...

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The Uniform

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The Uniform

There are lots of people who truly DO wear the same thing nearly every day. It's a bit extreme, but think of Steve Jobs....

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The Romantic Blouse

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The Romantic Blouse

Lately I have been thinking a lot about Picnic at Hanging Rock, the moody Australian movie from the 1970s about a group of schoolgirls who...

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The Sale Score

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The Sale Score

I have a few memorable sale stories (everyone does). When I was still an assistant in the magazine world, I got invited to the...

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The Houseguest Gift

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The Houseguest Gift

I have started my summer with delayed spring cleaning… a sort of re-nesting. The spring was too much of a whirlwind for any true...

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The Magazine

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The Magazine

When Yolanda told me about YOLO, my first thought was maybe that it felt a bit like her flag on the moon. An old symbol...

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Cellulare

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Cellulare

My fourth daughter, Harriet, is very soft-spoken. She has had language differences her whole life, and her words come sparingly and slow. Because of...

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A Rest

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A Rest

I know I said in my last post that I was looking forward to the weekend, (it was a wedding, after all...) but because...

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