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Virtual Vintage: The Insider's Guide to Buying and Selling Fashion Online Audrey, Jackie, Grace: Fashion trifecta In an age when the word is grossly overused, they remain, incontrovertibly, icons: Elegance embodied, high fashion at the dawn of the television era, with charmed lives and striking beauty.  

Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution presents Marie Antoinette as a hapless 14-year-old whose mother, Empress Maria Theresa, warned her, "All eyes will be fixed on you." In the end, as we all know, she miscalculated. "Yet for the moment," Weber writes, "the larger society she sought out proved an avid market for her iconoclastic, elegant image. For the staunchest devotees of the modes she launched, neither printed matter nor in-store gossip could compare with a direct sighting of Marie Antoinette."

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~ Life: Enjoy the Ride by Lee Monday Life: enjoy the ride! Good advice? Definitely great FUN book! 

~ Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution presents Marie Antoinette as a hapless 14-year-old whose mother, Empress Maria Theresa, warned her, "All eyes will be fixed on you."

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New articles:

Women talk three times as much as men, says study  Women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the average man. Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat - and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a new book suggests.

But what the male brain may lack in conversation and emotion, they more than make up with in their ability to think about sex....  Dr Brizendine says the brain's "sex processor" - the areas responsible for sexual thoughts - is twice as big as in men than in women, perhaps explaining why men are stereotyped as having sex on the mind.

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