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How to Pick the Perfect Vintage Dress: New figures released today show there has been a huge rise in the number of people searching for vintage fashion items. There has been increase of 273 per cent in global online searches for vintage dresses, 136 per cent rise in elbow-length gloves and...; http://www.lady.co.uk/style/fashion/601-how-to-pick-the-perfect-vintage-dress
How I fell for the classic look: Are you a big fan of the vintage look? I am a big fan of vintage. I like to incorporate different decades into the one look. There are so many great places in London, such as Absolute Vintage and Beyond Retro, where you can get all your pieces under...; http://www.lady.co.uk/style/fashion/176-how-i-fell-for-the-classic-look
Fashion advice from the archive: "SOMEWHERE I was reading that no self-respecting woman would allow buttons on her skirts; I remembered this while I looked at the finest work England could put in these exquisite garments, and smiled." The Lady, Here and There, 16th July, 1896. "WITH...; http://www.lady.co.uk/style/fashion/198-fashion-advice-from-the-archive
Beauty advice from the archive: “REGULAR care is, for the hands as well as for everything else, the basis of a good appearance.” The Lady. Beauty In One's Hands. 18th January, 1934. "THOUGH grey hairs may be "honourable" enough they unfortunately place their owners frequently at a...; http://www.lady.co.uk/style/beauty/199-beauty-advice-from-the-archive
The Lady Ultimate Guide to Baking: It is a truth universally acknowledged that when television discovers a popular trend, publishers are quick to cash in, or vice versa. What’s plain is that baking, currently in the persona of Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, has become a primetime...; http://www.lady.co.uk/life/food/1164-the-lady-ultimate-guide-to-baking
DIY COUTURE: My name is Katy Pearson and I am a dress addict. I hold my hands up. My none-too-secret vice is that a new dress makes me happy. I am too scared to count how many dresses there are in my wardrobe (and in my husband's wardrobe, in the attic at my...; http://www.lady.co.uk/style/fashion/178-diy-couture
Have a Sizzling Summer …even if it is still raining: GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL One of the finest operatic events of the year. Enjoy opera in and around the grounds of glorious Glyndebourne... just remember the strawberries and cream for your picnic. Where Glyndebourne, Ringmer, Lewes, East Sussex:...; http://www.lady.co.uk/people/features/513-have-a-sizzling-summer-even-if-it-is-still-raining
Royal Milliner Vivien Sheriff launches Hat Academy - just in time for the racing season!: Stephen Jones said: “If a woman wears a hat…she always has the door held open for her." So when I learnt that Peter Jones was to hold an exclusive evening with milliner to the royals, Vivien Sheriff, to mark the opening of their new Hat Academy, I...; http://www.lady.co.uk/blogs/entry/royal-milliner-vivien-sheriff-launches-hat-academy-just-in-time-for-the-racing-season
The What, Where, When: 31 August: WHAT: The World Belly Boarding Championships This eccentric event is organised and hosted by the National Trust, and brings people together who have an enthusiasm in the deeply rooted tradition of riding ply and prone wooden surfboards. See: Watch...; http://www.lady.co.uk/events/going-out/958-the-what-where-when-31-august
Cherish Your Home’s True Style: All properties come with a timeline, distinctive characteristics specific to their era. Over the years, successive homeowners like to put their stamp on a place by adding ‘fresh’ features, but too many of us fall into the trap of papering over the old...; http://www.lady.co.uk/life/home/233-cherish-your-home-s-true-style
Etiquette advice from the archive: “PEOPLE cannot help being influenced by their surroundings and their environment; therefore how all important it is that both of these should be healthy and cheery, for health and happiness both go hand-in-hand.” The Lady. The Blessing of Old Health,...; http://www.lady.co.uk/style/etiquette/222-etiquette-advice-from-the-archive
Wines of the week: January 25: I don’t want to start a panic but there’s a chance next year we might run out of wine. For those of us brought up on stories of European wine lakes and butter mountains, this seems like a far-fetched proposition. However, a combination of increased...; http://www.lady.co.uk/life/food/1690-wines-of-the-week-january-25
Book reviews: 12 October: OUT NOW RENEGADE by Robyn Young (Hodder & Stoughton, £16.99) A gripping new historical novel from the author of Brethren – Renegade is the second novel in Robyn Young's Insurrection trilogy and tells the story of Robert Bruce. Carefully researched and...; http://www.lady.co.uk/culture/books/1156-book-reviews-12-october
A weekend with the Queen of crime: The English Riviera, on Devon's south coast, is famous for all sorts of things. Its glorious weather; as the setting of Fawlty Towers (not that any of it was filmed there); and for its famous resident, Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor of the Singer...; http://www.lady.co.uk/people/features/1011-a-weekend-with-the-queen-of-crime
Book reviews: 11 May: OUT NOW HEDGE BRITANNIA Hugh Barker (Bloomsbury, £16.99) This affectionate and informative book is rather like a hedge itself: sprawling in places, concise in others, with small treasures in the footnotes and unexpected views. Barker's crusade is to...; http://www.lady.co.uk/culture/books/332-book-reviews-11-may
Needle match: I don't know whether a stitch in time does save nine. But it can save money and occupy hands that would otherwise be reaching for the biscuit tin – or the bottle. Austerity January is upon us, and the year ahead promises to be belt-tightening, so now...; http://www.lady.co.uk/life/home/110-needle-match
I really was suicidal… but now I’m back: The nation’s most famous birdwatcher opens the door of his playhouse high on a hill in Hampstead – an Aladdin’s cave of drum kits, African masks, vintage magazines and fairy lights – and shuffles through in his slippers to a kitchen kitted out like a...; http://www.lady.co.uk/people/features/35-i-really-was-suicidal-but-now-i-m-back
Racing frills: The glorious mix of hats and horses that makes up the Royal meeting at Ascot each summer is a well-established part of the social calendar. Indeed, it’s been going on for 300 years, ever since Queen Anne saw the potential for a racecourse on this area...; http://www.lady.co.uk/style/fashion/481-racing-frills
Antiques letters: 8 March: Potters’ marks This plate, with a diameter of 9in, was bought by my late father at a boot sale for 50p in the 1980s. The markings on the back are ‘Y 5 V’. I don’t suppose the plate is worth much, but I’m wondering what the marks mean and when it was...; http://www.lady.co.uk/life/home/1956-antiques-letters-8-march
A HATTER’S TEA PARTY: Date: 18 May Time: 12.30pm to 3.30pm Venue: Kettner’s, 29 Romilly Street, Soho, London W1D 5HP The Lady is delighted to announce a dazzling reader afternoon with milliner to the stars, Katherine Elizabeth. The Evening Standard has dubbed her ‘The Queen...; http://www.lady.co.uk/hats

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“PEOPLE cannot help being influenced by their surroundings and their environment; therefore how all important it is that both of these should be healthy and cheery, for health and happiness both go hand-in-hand.”

The Lady. The Blessing of Old Health, 18th November 1920

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