Friday, August 10, 2012

CABRERA,GLORIA Cosmetologist the Natural Way(c) By Polly Guerin

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Making clients beautiful has been the livelong ambition of Gloria Cabrera, a cosmetologist for over thirty years. A petite Philippine nati...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

DOLLS: MADAME ALEXANDER, The First Lady of Dolls (c) By Polly Guerin

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The great French chanteuse, Maurice Chevalier used to sing, “Thank goodness for little girls” and thank goodness it is for the dolls that ...
Friday, June 15, 2012

QUEEN LIZZIE, FASHION ICON (c) By Polly Guerin

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Pardon me, but did I say Queen Lizzie? I say that with the utmost of esteem for the grand lady of England, because she seems to be the kin...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

APFEL IRIS, 91 YEAR OLD FASHION ICON (c) By Polly Guerin

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It’s not her signature owl-shaped glasses that adorn her venerable face that gets your attention and it’s not her mix of haute couture wit...
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Saturday, February 11, 2012

COLEMAN, ELIZABETH 'BESSIE,' PIONEER AVIATOR (c)

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At a time when no woman, particularly an African-American woman would have dreamed of becoming a pilot, on June 15, 1921 Elizabeth 'Bess...
Monday, January 30, 2012

AYER, HARRIET HUBBARD, COSMETIC PIONEER ( c) By Polly Guerin

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The story of Harriet Hubbard Ayer (1849-1903) reads like a modern day melodrama the likes of which read more like fiction than the transgres...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

BARNES, DJUNA CELEBRATED MODERNIST WRITER (c) By Polly Guerin

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Djuna Barnes’s extraordinary career as a journalist and illustrator deserves revisiting primarily because she made an important contribution...