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  • I confess I struggle when I see women dressed that way, feeling that nothing but sexual repression could result in such dress in very hot weather -- if they were so ef...
  • There was an interesting article in Scientific American (about a zillion years ago, before burqas and hijabs were common on European and American streets) that examine...
  • How wonderful! I have a small collection of letters from my grandparents & a few...conveyed in a simple sentence or commentary. Sometimes I wonder if all of our modern technology is a good thing...
  • That's interesting, Judith. I wonder if, overall, women tend to dress up more at all-women's events than at co-ed events. It may also be a blogger vs writer thing. Bloggers are more conscious of how they look since many do video blog posts.
  • haha! yea, i went to find a white summery dress a few days ago, and all they had was sweaters. i thought xmas in July was just an expression - apparently stores are taking it to heart.
  • Thank you, everybody!  What a wonderful array of responses!  I appreciate Joanne Barney's and Patricia Robertson's encouragement to not "give up."  To be clear - I hav...
  • That's easy.  Jean Kerr.  I remember reading her book "Please Don't Eat the Daisies," when I was nine.  It was a collection of essays --Nora Ephron before there was a...
  • Jill, I believe you are also one of the generation of girls who were told to deflect all compliments - oh, this dress .. it's actually getting drab-looking OR my hair...
  • Hey, guys! K. I got no friggin' idea how to reply to each of your posts individually (LOL!) so here we go... Hi, Barbara! Checked out your site. Looks like your book...
  • An excellent essay and I can imagine it wasn't so easy to write. I want to respond to one comment below. Scars writes that "it seems police in Canada, themselves, are...