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...successful--lengths to improve the quality of their private-label children's wear. Jill Rice, 34, a stay-at-home mother in Atlanta, says that while she prefers to shop for church or special-occasion clothing for her 21-month-old daughter Lilly at higher-end stores, where a dress might cost $60 to $75, she occasionally shops at Target for Lilly's less formal needs...
...would never do for myself), I hit the upscale shops on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Barneys, Brooks Brothers and Saks were a bust--nothing formal in Conor's size. Bergdorf's Best & Co. shop had lovely seersucker suits and Peter Pan--collared shirts, but the point was to dress my son, not humiliate him. And Gucci's $2,000 jade green silk bomber jacket would have clashed with my lavender bridesmaid's dress...
...Smith-style sneaker with croc trim. At the menswear shows in Paris, meanwhile, Louis Vuitton featured tennis whites as a major theme. Over at Wimbledon, where tennis was actually being played, Venus Williams was serving up her new look on Centre Court: a Diane Von Furstenberg-designed Reebok tennis dress with corsetlike lacing up the back. Anna Sui's current line includes "a tennis dress, pleated miniskirts, sweater sets and tube socks," says Sui, adding, "They've sold out in stores." Designers, get your pique, pleats and polo shirts ready. --By Isabel C. Gonzalez
...Most brides spend months agonizing over The Dress. Not so Bangkok-based expatriate Jayne Dalmer, who turned up for her first fitting five weeks before her wedding?and two weeks after giving birth to a baby girl. Her designer-dressmaker, Rachata Supasanapiwat, didn...
...pleating, and what it can do for a postpartum figure. When Jayne walked down the aisle of a New Zealand church three fittings and a 12-hour flight later, there was no trace of the frazzled new mother in the gorgeously gowned bride. Even better, her custom-made dress set her back just $480, about half the cost of having a similar dress made in New Zealand...