The Lost Art of Dress

The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish by Linda Przybyszewski

A book about advice in dressing from the late 19th century to now -- the later part being chiefly the fall of the excellent advice they got earlier, from the author's point of view. (The history and her arguments had a few points of roughness, but not many.)

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vignettes

This week's prompt is:
abashed

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term.

oh you prince

There I was having happily matched up the princes to their tales and plugged along with the story.

Then I thought of having her father's coronation in the story to provide some variation and set up a location.

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