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Fashion | Speaker of the Blouse
SummaCumLauder
Ladies, want to seem brilliant? The New York Times reports: “Wear makeup!” This advice sounds so sexist (and maybe counterintuitive — don’t we associate cheerleaders o...
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Fashion | Speaker of the Blouse
Double Takes
If you’re styling yourself as an icon for Halloween, you can wear an obvious costume. For Michael Jackson, go for one sequined glove. For Elvis, don a replica of the “Aloh...
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Fashion | Speaker of the Blouse
Knot, Now!
Let’s try a simple style brainteaser. You’re packing for an eight-day vacation that’ll take you through three cities with different climates, with temperatures ranging f...
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Fashion | Speaker of the Blouse
Critical Mess
In her recent column for V Magazine, Lady Gaga blasted the New York Times’ Cathy Horyn, the veteran fashion writer who honed her rhetoric at The Washington Post in the ’90...
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Fashion | Television
Face Time: Rachel Zoe
We die. Or, well, we’re at least glad that “The Rachel Zoe Project” just launched its fourth season on Bravo (Tues., 10 p.m.). This go-around, Zoe, known for her boho-go...
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Fashion | Speaker of the Blouse
Stripes, Not Hype
The sell-out frenzy of Target’s Missoni line is still a retail bungle, with online orders delayed for weeks and tales of in-store tussles over tights. Bargain shoppers l...
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Music | Styles
Face Time: Barry Manilow
Someone you know fell in love slow-dancing to Barry Manilow tunes. So it’s ironic that with four decades of No. 1 love songs, the singer struggles with atrial fibrillati...
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Fashion | Styles
Back in the Fold
Once the mark of a European gentleman (or an American dandy emulating one), a pocket handkerchief was as de rigueur as a watch or hat. The 16-by-16-inch squares signified care...
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Fashion | Speaker of the Blouse
Wear Yourself Out
Vogue editor Anna Wintour started Fashion’s Night Out three years ago to spur ailing retail sales. But the shop-a-thon and kickoff to New York Fashion Week has morphed into ...
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Fashion | Speaker of the Blouse
Ingenuity in a Box
I discovered the fashion equivalent of the wheel decades too late. My friend Erin is making a reverse Potomac leap, from Arlington to Washington. When I dropped by to help her...
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Food & Drink
Pop Culture
It’s counterintuitive, but Popsicles started out as a winter surprise. Around 1900, 11-year-old San Franciscan Frank Epperson left a fruity soda outside during atypical ...
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Fashion | Speaker of the Blouse
Heroine Chic
Tuesday afternoon, I was wrapping up a column on wardrobe moving boxes (which has hence been bumped to next week) when the Express offices, on the fifth floor of an elderly Washington Post building, began to shake. I thought, “Oh, turbulence,...
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Film | Styles
Face Time: Jason Momoa
With his toned bod and handsome features, Jason Momoa seems all alpha male, but he warns us that it’s all acting. “I take out aggression on set. I’m not even king of my own house!” The “Game of Thrones” star plays ...
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Fashion | Speaker of the Blouse
Fashion-Unfriendly
Michelle Obama’s team confirmed the sad truth: Washington has no fashion sense. In the past, Mrs. Obama has hosted a luncheon for the National Design Awards, which honor both architectural and fashion designers, in July. For 2011, the White Hou...
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Music | Styles
Science Is Rock and Roll
The stars come out for awards shows when they’re nominated. But now, they’re honoring science whiz kids. Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am produced and hosts “i.am.FIRST: Science Is Rock and Roll,” a one-hour special that pr...







