“Gardens in Georgetown are designed for privacy and as a useful adjunct to the house. This permits the receptions, often for a hundred guests, which are not unusual in this milieu. “Gardens also server for small luncheons, as shown here. They are almost always planned, as this o...
which use Welsh mythology (Prydainis the medieval Welsh term for the Brittonic parts of the island of Britain), particularly theMabinogion, for inspiration,The Black Cauldronis my favorite. (But they’re all good; seeThe Book of Three, on myBest YYA Lit 1964list.) The ...
The former Clothes Show presenter, 55, has been signed for an undisclosed sum to endorse a range of fashion-forward clothes.Interestingly, she's revelling in the refined elegance of her years, with no attempt to airbrush them away.Though best-known as one of TV's most glamorous newsre...
The symbolic act of tossing those clothes into the trash can was meant as a serious critique of the modern beauty culture, of valuing women for their looks instead of their whole self. "Going braless" felt like a revolutionary act—being comfortable above meeting social expectations. Trivialized...
Generally speaking girls were still pretty chubby, but with the new slim clothes coming in, they all went on diets. This was the first year I can remember seeing loads of people drinking low-calorie sodas. Which can be dismissed as merely the superficial prattle of the out-of-touch elitist...
King's Road, C&A was, for many years, fashion nirvana.On Saturday afternoons, its many branches were invaded by skinny young women with back-combed hair, Dusty Springfield eyelashes and blotted-out lips.They would elbow each other aside, grab piles of clothes and run for the changing rooms....
As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave a thin cry, I nearly dropped it in my surprise. Then I was in a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in a night-dress and a borrowed man’s coat screamed as she saw me and came running madly. She was the Mayor’s...
Yet these are ginrls in their teens or twenties but women in their sixties and seventies.A gengration which would once only wear old-fashioned clothes is now faouring the same high street looks worn by those half their age. 他们佩带最新的时尚与最新装饰(配饰)。这些是ginrls在他们的十几岁或...
London: The center of everything that swung in the Swinging Sixties. After the suffering of World War II and the steady recovery in the Fifties, London was ripe for a major economic boom when the Sixties came along, and youth fueled that boom with an unprecedented demand for clothes, music...
Women like Johnnie Tillmon successfully advocated for larger grants for school clothes and household equipment in addition to gaining due process and fair administrative hearings prior to termination of welfare entitlements. Yet another mode of feminist activism was the formation of consciousness-raising ...