Tag: dresses

  • Summer dressing, reprise

    Hi, all! We’re busy getting the library ready for the students in the fall, so the next couple of posts will be from the archive. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on stuff you missed. This one is the first long posts I put up, way back in 2012. I hope…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, everybody! This week’s magazine is an oldie but a goodie! Before Amy Shumer, Tina Fey,  or Margaret Cho, before Bust, and “Sex and the City”, there was Helen Gurley Brown, who was single and loved it.  She wasn’t the only reason that single womanhood switched from meaning “pitied” to meaning “fabulous”, but she sure…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, all! This week’s Magazine of the Week is really a pattern catalog: Marfy is a pre-drawn clothing patterns company.  Think Vogue or Burda.  The company was established in 1966, and specializes in high-style womenswear.  It also claims to be the first pattern company in Italy to sell patterns for special occasion wear. When we…