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...group of stores--those setting very old and antique clothing--doesn't have to worry about following trends. Atalanta (1700 Mass. Ave.) and Arsenic and Old Lace (1743 Mass. Ave.) both sell Victorian and turn-of-the-century clothing to a mostly middle-aged and affluent crowd. Prices here reach $200 or $300 for 19th-century lace dresses, some jackets and blouses, a little the worse for wear, sell for around...
Taking the opposite tack, Sherry Gamble of Arsenic and Old Lace started out two years ago selling only black costumes: Victorian dresses and capes, many heavily decorated with ribbon and jet beads. Now she has branched out to include other colors and styles up through the '50s, though black still predominates in a shop filled with Victorian furniture and witchcrafty decor...
...they hung Victorian lace on the sign, may be the [the Historical Commission] would be happy with it," said an officer at the gatehouse who asked not to be identified...
...closely about his new passport, apparently looking for grounds to detain him as a suspected illegal. To the official's embarrassment, Mukherjee's documents were in order. "I watched his face redden as he stamped my passport," Mukherjee remembers. It was an example of what he calls "lace-curtain discrimination. It's where you discriminate in subtle ways without being detected. It's in all walks of British life...
...band of literateurs has harried him. Reviewers accustomed to propriety panned the book and accused Roth of writing pornography. Zionists and orthodox Jews charged him with betraying his heritage and making a mockery of the Holocaust. Jewish mothers, appalled by what they perceived as scathing anti-Semitism, threatened to lace his chicken soup with arsenic...