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USAGE Though it is dismissed by both the economic and the fashion worlds, the hemline theory has proved correct at times. Hemlines were short in the Roaring Twenties but fell before the 1929 stock-market crash. In the '60s miniskirts were en vogue, and stocks rose. In the summer of 2006, designers showed short hems for spring, and in May the Standard & Poor's 500 index hit a seven-year high...
...Later, as dinner guests drifted up to their tables, Martha Stewart and Charlie Rose jockeyed for camera time behind a box-hedge where entertainment reporter Jill Rappaport had set up some lights. There were very few details left unattended to, from the perfectly cooked pink lamb chop main course to the black-edged white linen dinner napkins that matched the runway theme. And little details tell the tale. Because beyond all of his branding and focus, it's nailing the little things that has gotten Ralph Lauren, 40 years after he started, to the top of the heap...
Such thinking clearly resonates with millions of people in their 40s, 50s and 60s who are keeping the second-home market alive. Last year, even as sales of primary residences fell, vacation-home sales rose nearly 5%, says the National Association of Realtors. The typical buyer of a vacation home was 44; a third of those people said they plan to move to the home full time later...
...true blonds have more fun?"), the postmodern beauty industry casts artificial color as a means of expressing a deeper truth about who one is. It's all about "helping each woman create an authentic connection between how she feels internally versus how she looks externally," Cona says. As Rose Weitz, author of Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives, put it, "Even if, in the abstract, we think we look all right with gray hair, we nonetheless feel as if we are losing our 'real selves' if we no longer have our 'real hair...
...protective stake in Diana. Here, as one sign pinned to the Palace's thick, black, gilt-edged gates read, was "The People's Memorial." Depending where you looked, amid the pink paper hearts and purple balloons, Diana was "The People's Princess," "The Queen of Hearts" or "England's Rose...