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After returning to the Quad a few hours later, Smith looks over her findings: a red polka dot dress (aka, the ladybug dress), a child’s snow suit, shiny silver sunglasses, a black spandex running top, and thick industrial thread. With her shopping finished, Smith is done for the day. She straps on her ever-trusty rollerblades, and speeds off to a concert...

Author: By Peter B. Weston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Designer: Jamie Renee Smith '08 | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

PAUL VANCE, co-writer of the song Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, after an obituary printed for Paul Van Valkenburgh--who had claimed he wrote the hit under the name Paul Vance--led the real Paul Vance's friends and family to think he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Oct. 9, 2006 | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

That's how Ronni Olitsky began collecting. A mom, wife, music teacher for tots and co-founder of the Polka Dots (a pop band for young children) in Concord, Mass., she's in charge of her family's wine cache. Olitsky has discovered that even an entry-level wine from a really good producer ages well. She shoots for the best wine in her price range and buys just four to six bottles a month to lay down in the coolest part of her cellar. Food writer Melissa Clark, author of Chef, Interrupted, takes the same approach. But while Olitsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Wine and Women | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...Queen and a reigning icon of the American sport cum spectacle since the 1940s; in Burlingame, Calif. Cast as a villain who relished boos from the crowd, she reached her zenith in the '60s as a star of San Francisco's famed Bay City Bombers. With purple, green and polka-dot hair, tattoos and a flair for elbow-throwing, the Meanest Mama on Skates endured 12 broken noses and numerous cracked ribs competing over seven decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 27, 2006 | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...enormously popular. Case in point: a Facebook group entitled “Actually Gordon Teskey Should Narrate in Middle-English For the Rest of My Life” currently boasts 54 members. But more importantly, he’s probably the only tenured professor on campus who regularly wears polka-dot ties. He often sports an old-school bowler cap while riding a yellow-wheeled bicycle around the Barker Center. With aplomb, even.Harvard’s only fashion columnist (yours truly) sat down with the Canadian-born Teskey, not to examine his recently published book on John Milton?...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Trend is Nigh: The Snappy Styles of Gordon Teskey | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

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