Corset News Archive - 19-Oct-2006
Looking for a 2-foot lacquered sushi boat or antique ribbon? How about a feather mask, a zebra hide or a lampshade custom-made from parchment? Perhaps a vintage accordian or Chilean goat-toe shaker (a rhythm instrument) would bring out your inner musician.
Hilary Alexander on accessories for keeping warm at weddings, out-of-stock stockings, and made-to-measure shirts.
It's as if J. Jill learned Victoria's Secret.
'A Light Less Traveled' draws from old favorites and lesser lights, and is sure to spark plenty of debate. Like Alan Lomax recording unknown bluesmen in the Deep South or Lenny Kaye collecting psychedelic singles for the famous Nuggets compilation, Rhino Records has embarked on an ambitious musical undertaking called A Life Less Lived, a four-disc boxed set that attempts to define that
Some use Halloween as a ?safe space,? a time to play with sexuality.
We are living in a material world, and I am a material girl. And I can go to Africa and get a baby if I waaaant. OK, SO THAT'S not really how the lyrics to Madonna's hit song "Material Girl" go. But can't you almost imagine her gyrating across stage and singing something like that? Maybe she'd even bring her new son onstage with her.
Pop culture is losing its head over Marie Antoinette. More than 200 years after a revolutionary mob led her to the guillotine, the fashionista French monarch is back in style.
WORCESTER - "The Royal Worcester Corset Company" - which had its second coming at the new and magnificently improved Worcester Technical High School's majestic George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Auditorium Friday night - is such a pleasingly realized and panoramic home-grown concoction that it hardly matters that it borders on self-aggrandizement.
Ann Dowsett Jensen has opened her family's 18th-century home to the public Ann Dowsett Jensen lives in a cozy yellow clapboard house in Annapolis - a dwelling older than the country and one of the oldest in Maryland's capital. Her ancestors moved in amid pre-Revolutionary War fervor - as far back as 1771 - and ran a tavern on the premises. Somewhere around the house, there's a British halfpenny
André De Shields gets a Shakespearean workout (By Andy Propst)
