FASHION & STYLE
At the Met Gala, a Strict Dress Code
By GUY TREBAY APRIL 23, 2014
Escorts for princesses and countesses in 1938. Credit Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images
Gone are the fabled society queens and their blue-blood escorts...
Actually only $100~And it comes with a side of lobster mac & cheese.
http://www.decarestaurant.com/events/zillion_dollar_grilled_cheese/
The Zillion Dollar Grilled Cheese is not your childhood classic. deca Restaurant + Bar has created a one-of-a-kind experience. The sandwich...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/nyregion/two-world-war-ii-veterans-honored-19-soldiers-who-disappeared-70-years-ago.html?_r=0
EAST FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — On Monday morning, two World War II veterans held bouquets of roses and boarded an old warplane at Republic Airport here. Both men —...
Gatsby Glamour
Riotous, decadent, excessive . . . the 1920s were an era of lavish, vulgar, complete sensory saturation. Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, endeavors to capture this feeling of dizzying, glittering hedonism with its vibrant...
Abraham Lincoln’s Top Hat: The Inside Story
By Stephen L. Carter
Smithsonian Magazine
November 2013
Does the hat that links us to his final hours define the president? Or does the president define the hat?
Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At...
The Wall Street Journal
An Artisan's Devotion to Art Deco
Ludwig Vogelgesang—equipped with special tools, rare materials and traditional know-how—revives furniture of the 1920s and 1930s
By J.S. MARCUS
April 3, 2014 8:39 p.m. ET
Cabinetmaker Ludwig Vogelgesang Beatriz da Costa...
FASHION & STYLE
This Old Thing Is Turning Heads
Antiques-Show Dress Is The Fashion Statement of The Season
By STEPHANIE PIERSON MARCH 5, 2014
This dress, which was on view at the Winter Antiques Show, offers a photographic tour of 1930s New York.
Perhaps the most...
From New York Magazine:
Style Tribe: Diehards at the Manhattan Vintage Show
By Marisha Camp
Over the weekend, diehard vintage fanatics flocked to the annual Manhattan Vintage Show. Among the milliners, vintage clothing dealers, costume history students, and self-proclaimed vintage...
From the Wall Street Journal:
January 1, 2014 11:37 AM
First Airline Offered No Frills, Many Thrills
Florida Organizers Stage Centennial Re-Enactment to Celebrate Inaugural Commercial Flight
By SUSAN CAREY
Fliers frustrated with the discomforts of modern air travel might spare a...
The Tile House as the locals call it, is a Moorish folly in Bay Shore, N.Y., built by Rafael Guastavino Jr., who with his father, Rafael Guastavino Sr., developed the tile vaulting system used in Grand Central Terminal’s Oyster Bar, the Whispering Gallery outside it, and other iconic spaces...
I ran across these shirts by Versace that use shirting with a vintage feel. Over the years I've seen Versace as well asArmani use stuff inspired by goods of the golden era.
The collars even have a vintage vibe.
I recently received this sale announcement from Makins.
Dear friends,
Hope everyone is well and enjoying the summer.
Please join us starting this WEDNESDAY, June 12th for our father’s day sample sale. Get a nice hat for dad and help him cover up the bald spot that you may have...
I ran into these RL tweed trousers at a local discounter.
At first glance they looked promising, made with decent cloth and exibiting adequate construction.
Suspender buttons, belt loops and a nice little watch pocket. Rise looks a little low but........
Oh and what's this...
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