Category: Victorian Life

The Choker Returns

  Pick up the fall issue of any fashion magazine and you’ll see photos and screaming headlines that the choker necklace is back. The stylish will don chokers, just like those worn for centuries by women from Egypt to Renaissance Italy to England and America.   It’s one of those fashions that comes and goes, […]

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Butt-Enhancing Jeans Are the Modern Bustle

Mary Reporting. This morning as I breezed through Juniors at a local mall, I stopped dead. A large cardboard poster featuring a drawing of a teen in jeans proclaimed in large letters: WANNA BETTA BUTT? The text continued: YMI No kidding. With specially designed contour seams to help you achieve a flattering, firmer look, these […]

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