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No White After Labor Day

September 16, 2023 – 12:22 pm

Written Sep 9, 2020 Fashion has long dictated that no one should wear white after Labor Day. The tradition began in the Gilded Age and many modernists of mode deem that the ban was instituted to separate the elite from the hoi polloi or lower classes, however the real reason was probably that at the […]

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555 Chanel

October 15, 2012 – 7:05 pm

In Thailand five is called ‘ha’, so 555 is used for ha-ha-ha on SMS messages and Chanel # 5 is short two 5s for their recent Brad Pitt promotion for men’s Chanel # 5. I have bought Chanel # 5 for my mother, sisters, girlfriends, and wife over forty years. The history of the fragrance […]

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