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One day (it was the beginning of July), I got home from the fields and noticed a smell of mothballs all over the place.
“Mum! What on earth are you doing?”
Mum was clearly embarrassed.
The trunk was wide open.
The bed and chairs were all laden with woollen clothes, simple things knitted by my mum: a shawl, a couple of caps, stockings, socks, small pullovers and sweaters all made of rabbit hair and sheep wool, as well as some beautiful Persian lambskins.
“Mum. What’s all that jumble?”
“Well, you know, Nina Dimitrievna came to visit me and suggested I should bring some winter clothing to town… what if they think we have too much of it? They might consider it in excess and allow us to keep only one change of clothes each.
“Oof, shame on you, mum! You mean we’ve got to steal our own stuff? We don’t own anything that was illegally acquired and we will never do things on the sly, as if we were dishonest people with a bad conscience. It’s absolutely out of the question! Shame on you! Honestly, I never would have thought you could do such a thing!”
“Well, me neither. On the other hand, I believe you’re right”.
And while saying this, she started to put all her woollen caps and cardigans back into the trunk.
In the end, of course, my mum was proved wrong.
In fact, they didn’t leave us “with only one change of clothes each”, but rather, we were literally turned out of our own house barefoot and bareheaded.

We have an item of this market to give away to those who will recognise of this passage the author who used to live in the soft underbelly of Europe!!!!!

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Amongst the complex factors creating and defining personality, an appreciation of fashion is in the front line.
For someone making a profession out of their personality, the tie becomes unmistakable style: seductive with Valentino, impeccable with the Beatles, ironic and harrowing with Charlie Chaplin.

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Symbolizes femininity and youth,
Weakness and naiveté.

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In this case the more balanced proportions of the tie and the collar result in a more contemporary looking bow tie.

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The Italian edition of Vogue was created in 1965.
Franca Sozzani is currently editor-in-chief.
Everyone surely remembers her attack against the two showgirls
(known as veline which means “flimsy”) starring in an Italian TV programme called Striscia la notizia. She states: “These two represent a certain way of doing television which conveys a vilifying image of the woman. I prefer Lucia Annunziata* a thousand times over this trash TV”.

The prompt reply from the parties involved: “There is nothing more vulgar than prejudice and clichés. We are surely more covered up than certain models that appear in Vogue.”

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I had a strange feeling that morning when I got up early to reach the bridge that I knew the truck would have had to cross.
I wanted to see Ira one last time.
Deep inside I knew that this would have been our last encounter.
There was so much more I wanted to tell her! She was the only one who knew the secrets of my inner thoughts, the only one who could understand me immediately without words.
That was the reason why I decided neither to talk to her anymore nor to bid her farewell. But now it was too late.
It was getting cold out there; a thick fog with tiny drops of water was starting to come down. I remained on the bridge for a while. Memories were rushing through my mind, not of things that had just happened the day before; they were too fresh and, I wonder why, they seemed so unreal to me.
Past years came to mind: my childhood, my youth…. all those things that would remain vivid in my memory forever.
All of a sudden, the truck appeared out of the mist, squirting mud all over me. Then it disappeared again in the mist, as quickly as it had arrived. Ira was seated on the tarred canvas that covered the truck body, dressed up in her brown “wedding” coat.
I didn’t notice whether it was Misa or someone else sitting next to her.
I only had eyes for Ira.
She waved her hand to greet me. Then she took off her Basque cap and waved it in the air until the fog came drifting in like a curtain.
The curtain was finally rung down on our past.
An even more impenetrable curtain concealed our future
Thankfully nobody knows what the future holds.
Yet I turned away feeling as if my heart had been weighed down with a mountain of stones.

WE SHALL AWARD THE BASQUE TO THE ONE WHO REMEMBERS WHO THE AUTHOR OF THIS DIARY WAS (WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS OF THE REIGN OF “INDISPENSABLE EVIL” ).

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Proportions, chromatic and stylistic standards are occasionally set in the worlds of forms, art and fashion, in order to provide a guide, a model of perfection.
It is the challenge facing the classics, able to contend with and often succeed against the constant changes of taste and costumes.
In the case of the tie, the classic is also identified with French stylistic veins: worthy of note are the “Regimental” or the “Kashmir”.
Yet it is the Italian hand to, once again, act as the “arbiter elegantiarum”.

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The color of the sun represents joy, happiness, growth, and gold.
It also signifies cowardice, betrayal, jealousy and gambling.
It provokes a sensation of expansion, comparable to liberation and self-improvement.
In the human body, it is connected to the liver and willpower.

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End of IV century- Staatsbibliothek, Berlin

The magistrate Rufo Probiano is represented with his

“toga confabulata” or, in other words, folded diagonally

across the chest. Underneath the toga it is possible to

see the cassock. On both sides were two notaries

wearing the Paenula, a cloak with a hole for the head to

go through hanging in ample folds round the body

underneath which a cassock was also visible.

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“ENOUGH WITH FADS, TOTAL LOOK IS NOW DEAD AND GONE”
An era is over, now is the time to re-invent ourselves.
“The September Issue” illustrates the birth of an edition of [Vogue America] dated September 2007, the thickest ever, where 840 pages is content and 727 advertisements. If you look at it now, it resembles a relic of the good old days. Vogue issues from fall 2009 on are as slender as their legendary director, who feeds herself on grilled steaks; ads have fallen by 36% and Condè Nast has been mulling over cuts, just like all the others.
Franca Sozzani, influential director of the Condè Nast group and Italian vogue editorial director for 21 years now, is reflecting on the transition that is taking place in the fashion world and also on consumers’ future behavior. “Of course, watching this documentary makes you understand that we have entered a new era; I’m not saying that things were better before.
Today things are getting more difficult but also more challenging and we’ve all got to reinvent ourselves”. “Is the fashion tide turning in favor of being less extravagant? “If extravagance stands for fads, the answer is yes. But if we mean quality and the will to recount a dream, well, it’s no”.
“Italy is a country with a great desire to take action in favor of innovativeness. I am an optimistic person, especially when I see many small firms in our country that aim at quality.

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