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Looking for elegance, style, and history in vintage fashion

by April 7, 2010
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I’ve loved mid-century music, movies, and fashion since I was a child. I’ve never been innately girly and, having had to work at it, there was something admirable to me in being unflinchingly feminine. Perhaps that’s why I developed a love for an age when people seemed so effortlessly immaculate and propriety seemed a given. [...]

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How-To: Shop Vintage Stores Like A Pro

by April 7, 2010

Shopping at thrift stores for wearable pieces can be very tricky. Once you overcome the  dust and the disorganization of many stores (over time, I’ve come to love the chaos!), thrifting can become a real joy, if you know what to look for and how to shop. Here are a few tips: Know your measurements – [...]

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Switchin’ in the Kitchen

by April 7, 2010
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It was a clean getaway, fleeing on roller skates in our family basement, narrowly escaping my mom’s grasp. She was trying to catch me so she could do something with my head full of hair, which hovered around my face like a black, cottony cloud. Once I surrendered – a miscalculated stumble on a Barbie [...]

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Network Your Way to Love

by April 7, 2010
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Between a 60-hour workweek, drinks with the girlfriends, yoga classes, church, and community service, it can seem nearly impossible for a driven, ambitious, super-busy Black woman to carve out time in her life to find that special someone. The good news is that you don’t necessarily have to give up your lifestyle. In fact, I [...]

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Own your vision: a filmmaker’s quest to succeed on her own terms

by April 7, 2010
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You imagine the setting. It could be a conference, a party, a first date. The inevitable question always comes… “So, what do you do?” I used to tell people that I was a writer, a filmmaker, a student, an activist, and whatever else tapped my passion. But truly, the best answer I ever gave was [...]

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From insurance claims to coiffures: One woman’s story of starting over

by April 7, 2010
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Quitting a job during what manyeconomists were calling the worst economic climate since the 1930s would seem silly, if not downright crazy, to many Americans. But for Kennyetta Hill-Beneby, a 29-year-old wife and mother of two in Coral Springs, Florida, it was a dream come true. After four years in the insurance industry, Kennyetta was [...]

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