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Cheryl Kilton, 40, a pharmaceutical sales representative in Omaha, Neb., has a 2-year-old daughter and says many of her friends have also had children later in life. "We have great jobs, own a home and have no debt," says Kilton, who spent $200 on a Christmas dress trimmed in mink with matching fur shoe clips and headband for her daughter, who wore the outfit once before it was tucked away in a cedar chest for safekeeping...
Kilton bought the dress at Pish Posh, a children's boutique in Omaha. Pish Posh owner Angie Bekins opened the store in April of this year after contemplating the idea for 13 years. That she finally did so amid a war and a recession seems to have had few ill effects. Bekins says the store's sales in its first month were "phenomenal," and they have only improved, with June being her "best month ever." T shirts retailing for $20 and dresses for $100 are being snapped up faster than Bekins can reorder them. She says one customer purchased...
...First, Bush came upon a clutch of elderly women dressed in brightly colored traditional dress from the 19th century. Influenced by German colonialists,they wore what looked like modified ball gowns. Rather than the brilliant colors of other African nations, these women expressed themselves through the clash of bold checks and even more striking patterns. Dresses banged against shawls, which ricocheted off their headdresses, synched tightly in a "T" of fabric perpendicular to their faces and resting more than a foot in length on their foreheads...
...Next, Bush turned the corner and greeted one of two marimba bands wailing away at their instruments. Groups of singing children and the marimba bands were all performing their own pieces but the combination sounded somehow unified. In the middle of the entourage, young dancers, dressed in the tiny leather scraps of traditional dress whistled, clapped and stamped their feet. The seeds wrapped around their ankles rattled like beans in a coffee grinder...
...whose record four best-actress Academy Awards highlighted a screen career that spanned more than 60 years and included such films as Bringing Up Baby, The African Queen and The Philadelphia Story; at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. A highbrow with even loftier cheekbones, Hepburn's mannish dress and assertiveness on- and offscreen cost her popularity early on, but eventually became trademarks and made her a role model to generations of female fans...