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Holiday cheer with a touch of nostalgia celebrates garish knitwear from the 1940s to '80s
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Three good reads to accessorize your daily routine
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Are the days of wearing just a tuxedo t-shirt just over the horizon?
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Meaningful purchases trump frenetic shopping and closets bulging with new clothes
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Seeking comfort, holiday diners will don elastic to indulge their expanding waistlines. They should thank Thomas Hancock and his "masticator"
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With their origins at a London bespoke tailor, the suits of 007 are sharp—almost as sharp as a dagger shoe
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The stylish spy wore a Rolex and sunglasses that you can't buy on Black Friday on any other day
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The museum's clothing and textiles are unwrapped for view as never before
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Forget buttons and T-shirts. Check out these mini dresses, bell bottoms and digital watches from old campaign trails
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When their faces are obscured, these children transform into frightening little creatures
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Sexy or scary, the outfit has cast a spell on costume wearers going back many years
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How much drama is too much? These two famous women, who wielded power over how we dress, could have debated the subject
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With their divided toes and extreme length, these red knit wonders from an excavated Egyptian site have an otherworldly quality
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Before the Age of Aquarius, there was the age of administrators and their button-down rules about students' wardrobes
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Wearing rolled stocking back then must have been akin to the liberating, punk rock feeling of wearing ripped fishnets today
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Meet Sadie Mintz, a jewelry maker who saw her handiwork on the cover of LIFE magazine
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The real stories behind some fashion fads and classics hold some surprising twists
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Antonio Lopez's electrifying art defined the style of the times, 1960s-'80s. Now, a gallery show and book call renewed attention to his accomplishments
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The avant-garde Japanese artist attains retrospective status—and embarks on a fashion collaboration with Louis Vuitton
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As this old newspaper ad supplement shows, in the heydey of synthetic knits, DuPont advanced its chemically made fibers as a key to "Better Living"
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