If brows are the fashionable feature, what makes a fashionable brow?
The Imperato Wunderkammer included a stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling — an item that became a fashionable feature of the cabinets, as did the black-and-white checkered floors visible in subsequent frontispiece images.
The always fashionable feature-film director Spike Jonze sat down recently with the owners of Opening Ceremony, one our favorite places for interesting finery and fancy accoutrements.
By the 15th century it was increasingly unusual for a lord to build both a keep and a large gatehouse at the same castle, and by the early 16th century the gatehouse had easily overtaken the keep as the more fashionable feature: indeed, almost no new keeps were built in England after this period.
The ad also portrayed its fashionable design features including pretty cuffs, contrasting color piping, and fine pearl buttons.
Sequoia (53 Abu El Feda Street, Zamalek; 20-22-735-0014; www.sequoisoneine.net) is ofe of Cairo's most fashionable restaurants, featuring both Egyptian food and sushi.
The crowds enjoy the excuse to visit this increasingly fashionable city, which features stacks of clubbing and dining venues.
For comic inspiration, I log on to the Hats of Meat website (hatsofmeat.com), which features fashionable, alternative haberdashery made of tenderloin and chuck.
The housedress was a visible reflection of this shift, progressing from the Mother Hubbard style to that with fashionable and decorative features, one of which was Nelly Don's 1916 housedress.
