Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Glamour For an Indy Woman, Born 1913

Does the sight of a baby ever prompt you to wonder what the world will look like for that child when he or she is decades older? Or maybe when they are your age? Think...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Road Trip: Vintage Fashion in Pattern

“Want to write about fashion from a historical perspective…?” Pattern  Editor-in-Chief, Polina Osherov queried this past fall. If you weren’t aware, Indy has an emerging interest in fashion and Pattern is an organization dedicated to “Uniting...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Stout’s Shoes & the Circular Nature of Styles

This article and a portion of this website is generously sponsored by Stout’s Shoes If someone asked you to name the oldest business in Indy, what are the chances that Stout’s Shoes would come to...

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Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Rink’s Store

It’s funny how circular life on this planet appears over a series of years; Indianapolis, is no exception to coming full circle. As a note of possible interest to the those munching popcorn in the...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Indy’s Remote Connection to Vogue Magazine

Imagine you are from Indy (not too hard, right?) and moved away, and you’ve become close friends with Vogue Editor-in-Chief, Anna Wintour. Everyone who cares the slightest bit for fashion in Indianapolis would know this...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: That Ayres Look, 1951 Derby Style?

Many thanks to Thomas Brown for sharing this gorgeous 1951 advert with a dress by Traina-Norell and hat by John Frederics. If Indianapolis had a derby, I think this would be my pick! Ok, J....

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Spring Hats, 1957

Hats, hats, glorious hats! Oh how I love a great hat! these spring 1957 beauties are a little reminder of fashion’s past. Though I’m far more inclined to don a big and wide-brimmed hat, this...

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Posted in: Building Language Building Language: Spanish Colonial Revival

Spanish Colonial Revival. The Spanish Colonial Revival, or as it’s also known, Mission, is a revival style dating from the first decades of the Twentieth Century. Although there are not many Spanish Colonial Revival structures...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: 2012 Golden Globes, Reimagined Worst to Best

With all the money, stylists, designers, and the like, how can Hollywood still turn out this many ladies looking this wrong? Most of them are physically fit, and therefore have a great frame to start...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Vintage Handbags

This week’s Ladies Lounge sponsored by Minx Vintage & Home – 111 E. 16th Street in the Penn Arts Building between Pennsylvania & Delaware Streets It seems the purse/ handbag industry is cranking out product...

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Posted in: Building Language Building Language: Tudor Revival

Tudor Revival found at 5734 North Washington Blvd Tudor Revival. Another one of the many revival styles found in Indianapolis is the Tudor Revival. Original Tudor architecture dates from the 15th and 16th centuries in...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Cocktail Dresses for Cocktail Time

When cocktail time rolls around, your outfit can be as intoxicating a concoction as the libations. I am thankful to be fairly height-weight proportionate and take great delight in finding fashions that fit my hourglass....

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