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Styles & Fashion

Tommy Hilfiger Fall 2013

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By Christina Perez

On a checkerboard runway in the cavernous Park Avenue Armory transformed to look like Harry Potter‘s library, Tommy Hilfiger sent out a tight lineup filled with Prince of Whales plaid, argyle, and herringbone. The theme was “saville row meets ivy league” with a nice dose of ’60s, and thus there was a preppy-mod tinge to these well-tailored clothes. Coats of every kind – peacots, boyfriend blazers, duffles, and parkas – dominated every look, while a strict palette of cream, navy, red, and khaki kept the whole thing feeling fresh and neat – just the way a Tommy Hilfiger collection should be.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at fashionologie

History

In a Wartime Telegram, a Look at a Frustrated Lincoln

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By hnn

One way to think of it is this: It is a page from the script for the script for “Lincoln.”

The script for the script? Historical documents and reference materials served as the basis for the movie’s script, and this is an original document, a 106-word draft of a telegram signed by Abraham Lincoln himself. So it was not polished by the writers in Hollywood.

Lincoln wrote it in May 1862, when, as the movie made clear, Lincoln was focusing on the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln sent the telegram — to be displayed at the Winter Antiques Show, which opens to the public on Jan. 25 at the Park Avenue Armory — in reply to a 10-page message from Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, who has been described by one historian as Lincoln’s “never-ready” general….

Source:
NYT

Source URL:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/in-a-wartime-telegram-a-look-at-a-frustrated-lincoln/?ref=todayspaper

Date:
1-11-13

Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University