Tea-stained laces, Victorian accents, ruffles and textured fabrics like Swiss dot and crochet reinforce this sense of vintage femininity.
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I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.
HELENA CHRISTENSEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Natural fabrications such as linen, silk, cotton sateen and voile are the foundation for this trend.
MARLA SHAVIN This pivotal piece easily makes the transition from day to evening.
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MARLA SHAVIN We each are artists of the self, creating a collage -- a new and original work of art -- out of scra...
JUDITH VIORST When Marla didn't want to talk about something she always made sure her mouth was otherwise occupied...
TOBIAS WADE Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturer...
MARILYN MONROE Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that...
ELISABETH ELLIOT It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Flowers have always been popular in Japan. They've been applied as decoration to everything from fab...
JAMES WHITE I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and c...
MARILYN MONROE Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.
GENE EDWARD VEITH JR. The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and s...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We bundle a lot of fabrics and I wanted to promote them. I like to help people choose fabrics -- but...
KAREN SNYDER Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I'm a big Ralph Lauren girl, but I love vintage clothing. I like the whole western jeans and boo...
LECY GORANSON She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffe...
HENRY JAMES His menus were very simple. They were not overblown and elaborate in the Victorian sense. You could ...
ELIZABETH NOSEK Last year the Swiss business leaders we asked placed the country 56th overall on a world scale and i...
JENNIFER BLANKE Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes l...
JOHN STEINBECK Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON I looked like Swiss cheese.
CURTIS SLIWA I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.
ALBERT FINNEY [Brown's] work is really wonderful, very rich and textured, very modern.
MICHAEL ELLISON A person who has intelligence understands that the knowledge can only be acquired, not common sense ...
ANUJ SOMANY You've built this great firewall in front of your enterprise, but the back of your enterprise is lik...
KEN DULANEY You've built this great firewall in front of your enterprise, but the back of your enterprise is lik...
KEN DULANEY Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a
shirt on his back.
TOM BROWN Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes l...
JOHN STEINBECK American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in th...
TOM HOLT All of a sudden, she felt frozen. More chilled than before, as though she had been thrust into an ic...
MEGAN FRAMPTON People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between ac...
DAVID CRYSTAL Savannah handed the glass to Gregori, her eyes anxious. Gary touched his neck. He felt a little dizz...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to app...
JESSAMYN WEST We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of...
KEITH STANFIELD We are somewhat consoled by the fact that Marla died doing what she really wanted to do: help people...
MEDEA BENJAMIN Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, t...
ERICA SEHYUN SONG Under this measure, Americans will be responsible for determining for themselves what tea they like ...
HANK BROWN I have a rich, full, textured life.
LAINIE KAZAN This was vintage Milosevic
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern.
KIERSTON WAREING ....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'texture...
JEANNETTE WALLS This is an important visit and the first of its kind and it will help reinforce bilateral relations
IBRAHIM JAAFARI The key to this season is layering, new proportions created by wide volumes teamed with narrow cuts,...
JENNIFER UGLIALORO This is a very plain hearse. Others have stained glass and wood carvings.
DIANNA OHLING I started to design the collection by designing the fabric. ... I had some antique fabrics that I ha...
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and...
JUAN WILLIAMS a tea stain is similar to that of your own soul. if your shirt were to be stained with tea do not pu...
KELLY BRYAN Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt:
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH […] You are very right in supposing how my money would be spent – some of it, at least – my lo...
JANE AUSTEN There is no difference amongst intelligence, common sense and wisdom, but for own comfort and conven...
ANUJ SOMANY Put me in a vintage shop, and I am like a child with sweeties. I find it a million times easier to f...
CHARLOTTE RILEY I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.
CHELSEA LEYLAND The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The fabrics, whether it be hand-painted prints at the end, or whether it be new knits and stretch fa...
RALPH LAUREN I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.
GWEN STEFANI The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.
BINDI IRWIN That's what makes it such a layered, textured show.
JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.
CHINESE PROVERBS As we looked at it, it was like Swiss cheese.
CRAIG SCHNELL A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a ...
BARBARA GORDON I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially ...
ELLE FANNING This was the greatest day in Swiss hockey history.
JULIEN VAUCLAIR It's to educate the people to different types of potholes that are out there. And it's to clarify wh...
CRAIG CHIN How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When I perform, I like to wear funky flats, leather boots or knee-high Converse with bright laces. T...
CHINA ANNE MCCLAIN Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.
JOSS WHEDON I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.
ELSA PERETTI [H]e would be an attractive choice in the sense that he would sort of reinforce the themes of a Gore...
ALEXANDRA STARR I've always done a lot of different things - quilts and making dolls and stained glass - but this ha...
LIN DUTTON I don't know what ruffles him, ... He doesn't have that inner clock, that inner soul fighting agains...
CHRIS KNUTSEN There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged,
and the disease in a great measure...
UNKNOWN When people come to me upset and in need of advice the first thing I always suggest is to brew a nic...
GEORGIA BARRETT Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotion...
FAYE DUNAWAY A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived...
VICTORIA PENDLETON The devastation and tragic loss of life caused by Hurricane Katrina earlier this week reinforce the ...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
NANCY PEARCEY This program of actions is a last resort forced upon us by the continuing failure of the Swiss gover...
ALAN HEVESI Since many of the favorites are from countries like Mexico and Kenya, we have those anthems and flag...
ALLAN STEINFELD To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his
snuff-box, is like giving a pair of ...
TOM BROWN To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of l...
TOM BROWN Signor Renzo's lodge stood on a grassy knoll near the crest of the hill. It was a modest place, just...
MARTINE BAILEY Ses’ach L’ru!” Came the slightly muffled chorus. This was Ruminarii for ‘Hail the Captain.�...
CHRISTINA ENGELA We'll have to wait and see what we get. If it looks like Swiss cheese, we won't be happy.
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