Tea-stained laces, Victorian accents, ruffles and textured fabrics like Swiss dot and crochet reinforce this sense of vintage femininity.


Marla Shavin

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Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
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Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
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Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.
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Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
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Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
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I looked like Swiss cheese.
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I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.
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[Brown's] work is really wonderful, very rich and textured, very modern.
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Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.
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I have a rich, full, textured life.
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This was vintage Milosevic
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This is a very plain hearse. Others have stained glass and wood carvings.
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a tea stain is similar to that of your own soul. if your shirt were to be stained with tea do not pu...
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The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.
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Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
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We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
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I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.
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That's what makes it such a layered, textured show.
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One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.
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As we looked at it, it was like Swiss cheese.
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This was the greatest day in Swiss hockey history.
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How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!
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Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.
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I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.
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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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