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...Stella” and “The State”? The man who made me fall to the floor laughing after shooting a hunting guide because he thought the man was a turkey? Would I see any traces of the ’40s-style gentleman from his film “The Baxter,” which he wrote, directed, and starred in? Perhaps intellectual inclinations from his French professor father or his English professor mother? Who knew...
...Lyell, a lovingly designed shop with a stamped tin ceiling and authentic '40s wallpaper. It sells a well-edited collection of vintage garb and shoes alongside co-owner Emma Fletcher's Lyell line of "vintage-inspired clothes." A circa 1960 Kelly green butterfly-print dress by Japanese designer Hanae Mori and a '70s-era black pleated skirt with a red Provencal-print border hang beside Fletcher's new collection of tulip-print, silk-chiffon tie blouses, velvet jackets lined in silk and '40s-style dresses (the designer's personal favorite: a black silk-and-wool number with deer-shaped cutouts...
What they find is $1,200-to-$1,500 dresses that have a fresh-from-the-womb maturity. Heavily darted, they're '40s-style shapely; they flare at the hem and enhance the bust and waist. Several spring looks are constructed of thin bands of material sewn together horizontally, like belts, that can be adjusted. "I think the idea of self-tailoring is very modern," says Posen. "I want to embrace the creativity of people. Besides, all women fuss with their clothes." His pattern-making skill is almost mathematical, fitting flat geometric shapes to moving form. "My clothes are supportive...
www.pearlharbor.com LOOK Steely, '40s-style austerity TIME WASTER Get perspective of Japanese bombing-run pilots in a game; read accounts of real Pearl Harbor vets OVERALL MERIT Ultra-tacky but perverse fun. Take that, Yankee dogs...
...Barbara Walters of gossip, with access to match. "[W]ouldn't you rather I dealt with it Liz Smith-style?" she asks subjects. After a few hundred pages, it becomes a little much--and that's before Smith shares her thoughts on religion. Still, if you like worshipful, '40s-style celebrity journalism and old-Hollywood glamour--Smith's career spans anecdotes of Tallulah Bankhead, Elizabeth Taylor and Julia Roberts--this book...