SARAH BALL

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Look online for a photo of Grace Kelly on the day she had her first meeting with Prince Rainier. She was wearing a dress with multi-colored cabbage roses on it (made from a McCall’s pattern, by the way). She looks really bad. Prints are never a good idea.

— —a pearl of e-wisdom from my mother today, on bridesmaids dresses. What’s better: the barely perceptible shudder at the thought of a McCall’s Easy Sew pattern, or the laying bare of actual flaws in Grace Kelly’s trousseau?

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Palm Springs-set LV Cruise 2011, shot at the Parker Hotel. Love everything about this campaign, especially the neo-Clueless vibes.

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covetable analogues.
(Billy Haines wallpaper in the Winfield House garden room—Style Court. Oscar de la Renta Spring 2011 finale gown—Racked.)

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Alexa Chung makes the prep revival look so rad.
[via Vogue.com’s Paris street-style coverage, which, if you haven’t been post-redesign, is also pretty rad. Click to their luscious IMAX viewer.]

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OK, Katy Perry. I feel you, girl. I feel you. The darker sleeve there, on your right arm, that would be, what, a billowing cumulonimbus front, blazing through the lightning-streaked troposphere that is this shit-storm of a dress? I got you. I got you.

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Grace Kelly, original paps-hounded political wife of our modern times. Also, those (Jackie!) who followed (skirt) suit.

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