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...moga, or “modern girl” was the Showa period’s crucial cosmopolitan. Working in shops, partaking in sports, or purchasing the latest Parisian fashions, these girls make manifest the clash of present and future in images where kimonos are paired with severely bobbed hair. Titles like “A Stylish Beauty Dressed in a Kimono Standing Beside a Decorated Christmas Tree” and paintings of women wearing mid-calf length daydresses and cloches aboard a sailboat resemble a vintage issue of Vogue, encapsulating the feeling of the era’s unprecedentedly...
Gibson, Mel • funny facial hair...
...first clue came when I got my hair cut. The stylist offered not just the usual coffee or tea but a complimentary nail-polish change while I waited for my hair to dry. Maybe she hoped this little amenity would slow the growing inclination of women to stretch each haircut to last four months while nursing our hair back to whatever natural color we long ago forgot...
...then brilliantly brings it off in the ensuing 500-odd pages. "When you staggered outside into the sweltering night," he writes of Singapore, "you would have been able to inhale that incomparable smell of incense, of warm skin, of meat cooking in coconut oil, of money and frangipani, and hair-oil and lust and sandalwood ... a perfume like the breath of life itself." (See 10 things to do in Singapore...
...Eliot elite.” The EL Word first began posting “gossip” in mid-January and still has relatively few entries—most of which are observational: “A senior boys’ blocking group is conducting a facial hair competition,” EL announced in its second post. Other posts offer less obvious information. “Sorry, ladies. It looks like your favorite Irish GZ senior may not be so single anymore,” said El. For Eliot residents, The El Word is not necessarily a source...