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...girl sets down her extra-large brown Longchamp to examine the racks of blue satin dresses with delicate straps, shrunken tweed blazers, and 1930’s tops. Every so often, she will run her finger over one of the garments and coo with glee...
...Elliot’s desire for companionship just by showing the picture on Elliot’s coffee mug: two cats sitting on a window ledge. Styled after the screwball comedies of the past, the film has an undeniable 1940s vibe, and it lives in Elliot’s tweed coat, navy vest, and plaid newsboy cap. The result is a fresh but nostalgic wide-eyed wonder that leaves you mildly elated...
...such low-cost stores as H&M, the Swedish chain that has 78 U.S. outlets. Its fall collection looks as though it were pulled from a closet in Big Sur, circa 1972. "We've imported a lot of items with accents of leather and suede, rustic wool and tweed from Eastern Europe and northern Canada," says Jennifer Uglialoro, H&M's U.S. spokeswoman. Also among the fall offerings are romantic blouses, heavy knits and feathered earrings for girls and vintage-inspired T shirts for boys...
...confident master class in craftsmanship, which opened with a procession of models in long black coats with feathers peeking out of hems and collars. All at once, they removed the coats to reveal striking evening dresses in fuchsia, pale pink and black-and-white embroidered to look like tweed, and classic tweed suits in dragée pastels embellished with jeweled chains. Giorgio Armani displayed a similar penchant for the somber and the serious with heavily beaded and embellished all-black evening gowns. This is only Armani's second couture season in Paris, but he has infiltrated the ranks with...
Hanging laundry is not a bad analogy for the way Breslin works. His book relies less on plot than on the cumulative effect of colorful anecdotes flapping on a slack story line. There are tales of the old sod, immigration and Boss Tweed's New York. The first male Morrison in the U.S. walks off the boat in 1870 and is put right to work sandhogging for 75¢ a day plus three hots and a cot. He soon discovers that he is restricted to the construction camp because the nearby Hudson River town of Beacon, N.Y., does not want muddy...